Health, safety and risk

The everyday activities that underpin our industrialised and urbanised world, increasingly impact both human health and safety as well as the natural world around us. From how and where we live and work, to the air we breathe and the water we drink.

As a company, we helped define and today continue to lead in the fields of human health, safety and risk assessment, and industrial hygiene. Our experts in risk assessment, process safety, and risk management work with clients to advance their health and safety culture including the concepts of zero harm. We work across disciplines such as climate change, air quality, circular economy, waste reduction and construction management to provide unique, holistic solutions to clients.

In workplaces and indoor environments, uncertainties about chemical, biological and physical exposures can affect employee health and wellbeing and increase business risk through regulatory impacts, litigation, and reputational damage. Our industrial hygienists, toxicologists, epidemiologists and health scientists perform risk assessments, develop practical controls and partner with our clients to respond to health and safety concerns and provide safe workplaces and buildings.

We work with clients to reduce business risk and protect staff by reviewing and implementing controls and tools to deliver compliance and successful risk management. We provide critical assistance to our clients related to the development and implementation of: o ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and other management systems

• Analysis of current and emerging national and international EHS regulations, issues and standards
• EHS training
• Evaluating EHS investments to ensure cost effective risk management
• Analytical decision making
• Evaluating environmental reserves.

For construction and building sites, we use quantified risk analysis, which involves detailed modelling of event probabilities and consequences with a view to mitigating risks and maximising safety throughout a project be it transport, energy, infrastructure, communications or property development from instigation to decommissioning. Our expertise includes advanced data evaluation, innovative mathematical modelling and disciplines such as fire engineering.