Integrated Compliance Health Check

Most consultancy relationships start with a free audit that isn't really an audit. Someone walks your site for an hour, lists what's wrong, and uses it as a sales document. You get a proposal, not a diagnosis.

This is the opposite. Three to five days on your site, a fixed fee agreed before we start, and a report that's useful whether or not you ever work with us again.

What you get

  • A full walk of the operation - production, storage, maintenance, contractor areas
  • Your H&S arrangements assessed against HSG65 and current HSE expectations
  • Your quality, environmental and safety systems assessed against ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001, whichever are in scope
  • Conversations with supervisors and operators, not just the management team
  • A written report: what's solid, what's exposed, what to do first
  • A prioritised action list with realistic timescales and rough costs
  • An hour to walk you and your leadership team through it

Who it's for

Manufacturers, logistics operators and industrial engineering firms between £10m and £100m turnover. Usually one of these is going on:

  • A tier-one customer has started asking for ISO certification
  • The HSE has visited, or a near miss has made the board uneasy
  • Your insurance broker wants evidence of H&S management before renewal
  • You have an H&S or quality manager who's stretched, and you're not certain what you don't know
  • You've grown, and the systems that worked at 80 people are creaking at 200

What we actually look at

Health & safety. Risk assessments: whether they exist, whether they're current, whether anyone on the floor recognises them. Machinery guarding and PUWER. COSHH. Workplace transport. Contractor control. Accident and near-miss reporting, and whether investigations find causes or just close tickets. Your competent person arrangements under Regulation 7.

Quality. Process documentation against how the work is actually done. Non-conformance handling, and whether corrective actions ever close. Supplier controls. Calibration and traceability where it matters. Internal audit and management review, if they're happening at all.

Environmental. Waste streams and duty of care. Your legal register, or the absence of one. Energy and emissions data, increasingly requested by tier-one customers whether or not you hold ISO 14001.

We look at all three because they overlap far more than most firms expect. One non-conformance process usually serves all of them. Finding that out is often worth the fee on its own.

What it costs

£1,200 to £2,000, fixed, depending on site size and how many standards are in scope. Quoted before we start and not revised afterwards.

That covers the site time, the report, the action list and the debrief. Nothing else to pay, and no obligation to do anything with it.

Why we don't do free audits

Because free audits aren't audits. They're sales calls with a clipboard.

A proper diagnostic takes three to five days and produces something you can hand to your board. Nobody gives that away. Anyone offering to is either doing something much smaller than they're implying, or building the cost into whatever comes next.

There's a practical filter in it too. If a business isn't ready to spend £1,200 finding out where it stands, it isn't ready for a £12,000-a-year retainer either. Better we both know that in week one than in month six.

What happens next

Three things can follow, and all of them are fine:

You take the report and do the work yourselves. Plenty of clients do, particularly where there's a capable H&S or quality manager who just needed an outside read. That's a good outcome.

You bring us in for a specific piece - an ISO system build, an audit programme, a machinery risk assessment.

You put us on retainer as your fractional HSEQ advisor, and the action list becomes the first six months of the plan.

How to book it

A 30-minute call first, so we can scope it properly and give you a fixed number before you commit to anything. Get in touch.