Founded in 1997, repeat work from old and new clients has led to our growth into a small consultancy with offices in central London and Reading.
We are an independent limited company wholly owned and managed by our directors.
We work in a wide range of fields including major hazard accident prevention, occupational health and safety, human factors, environmental management, crisis management, safety culture, stakeholder engagement and corporate responsibility.
We have particular expertise in the human element – changing attitudes and behaviours, communications, developing individual competence, building real organisational capability through its people.
We aim to help our clients develop and implement lasting and truly effective solutions to risk related issues, whether they relate to corporate risks, public health and safety, environmental protection or sustainable consumption. Whether it’s the risk of corporate non-compliance with health and safety law, the risk of fire in a person’s home or the risk of consumers suffering food poisoning we aim to identify, assess and minimise risk in a truly effective way.
A common thread runs through all of our work regardless of the specific area of risk. We aim to develop solutions that work in practice not just on paper. We ensure we understand the human element, why people behave as they do, what attitudes need to change to bring about lasting effect, what competencies need to be developed to enable improved performance.
We work for businesses and the public sector (regulators, agencies and public sector service providers) across all sectors.
Typically types of clients include:
We have a multi-disciplinary team of professionals many of whom have a wealth of practical experience gained from working in or with businesses. Our team can apply a combination of health, safety, environmental, stakeholder, communications, crisis management, social research, statistical, psychology and ergonomics expertise as well as applications support in IT, web enabled technology, graphics design and communications production.
Professionally qualified consultants are members of their respective professional bodies, are bound by their codes of conduct and Continuing Professional Development requirements.
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We also have alliances with specialist consultancies to help us deliver IT solutions, market research and health, safety and environmental expertise and a panel of established associates.
Enable Infomatrix, Beardwell Associates, Cudmore Consulting and WHM.
As a professional consultancy working in the fields of risk we are committed to the highest standards of quality and rigour in all of our work. As a matter of company culture we strive for excellence, recognising the criticality of our work.
We also aim to put principle into effect, achieving a work life balance in our work, actively managing health and safety and seeking continuous improvement in our environmental performance as well as investing in our staff and sharing the rewards of company success with everyone in the company – adopting a responsible and sustainable approach to business.
Our principles extend to ensuring that the assignments we engage offer real value to our clients in respect of helping to minimise risk and adverse outcomes and improving organisational, individual and societal well being. We develop lasting relationships with our client by ensuring our work adds value.
As a small consultancy our clients benefit from a personalised service. Each of our clients are important to us. You are not lost within a corporate empire.
We are renowned for our research into emerging issues such as safety leadership, competence, safety culture and behavioural change. We combine our leading edge research with real world experience in developing and implementing solutions for business and government.
We are a solutions oriented consultancy, focused on identifying solutions rather than just improving understanding of issues and problems. We always strive to produce solutions that are workable, lasting and truly effective. We identify key success factors and potential risks and work closely with our clients to produce solutions that they can sustain. We are not satisfied with just having a good concept or policy on paper alone. We look to developing solutions that make a difference, that comprise real change in individual, organisational or societal behaviours.
All of our staff are devoted to the goal of reducing risk, minimising harm and maximising business and societal development. Our consultants are members of their respective professional societies, be it IOSH, IEMA or emergency management, and have through many years experience demonstration an individual commitment to our sphere of work.
We explore your issues, needs and objectives. We ensure we understand what you wish to achieve from working with us. We will advise you of the need to change our remit or method. We are flexible and adaptive, changing course in assignments where it benefits our clients. We aim to develop lasting relationships with clients so that we can understand their needs and so that we can produce ever more effective solutions for them and you can develop trust and confidence in us.
We treat each client and each assignment individually. We develop bespoke solutions for each assignment. We do not apply a ‘one size fits all’ approach nor do we try to pull solutions from ‘off the shelf’.
The value of our philosophy is reflected by the very high rate of repeat work we enjoy with our clients, many of whom we have worked with since before the company was founded.
Our consultants have a wealth of experience of working in or with businesses, government and other stakeholders. We have first hand experience of the practical limits of resourcing and the conflicting pressures on organisations. Drawing on this experience enables us to deliver practicable solutions to you.