Health & Safety Support for Governance and Leadership
Effective health and safety governance starts at the top. As a leader, your commitment drives the culture and performance of your entire organisation. We provide the strategic tools, expert insights, and practical frameworks you need to meet your legal obligations with confidence, ensuring your team remains safe while your business thrives.
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Are You Aware Due Diligence is a Personal Legal Responsibility?
Why implement due diligence?
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA), officers (such as board members and senior leaders) have a legal duty to exercise due diligence to ensure their organisation complies with health and safety obligations.
WorkSafe’s guidance reinforces that this isn’t just about compliance, it’s about building a positive and proactive safety culture from the top. Strong governance not only supports compliance but also drives safer decision-making, improves organisational performance, and builds a positive safety culture from the top down. Clear reporting, structured reviews, and an understanding of Section 42 obligations help leaders confidently meet their responsibilities.
How we can help
Safe and Sound Consultants work directly with your governance and leadership team to provide practical, tailored support. We review your current governance processes, identify any gaps, and ensure your due diligence practices align with legal requirements and industry expectations. We can assist with governance reviews, strengthen reporting frameworks, clarify roles and responsibilities, and help leadership teams understand and meet Section 42 compliance. Our support ensures health and safety remains visible, measurable, and well managed at the highest level.
Due Diligence Services
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Due Diligence Guidance
Ensuring your Health and Safety at Work Act legal responsibilities are understood and met.
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Board and Executive Reporting
This includes dashboards, summaries, and performance insights.
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Governance reviews
To assess systems, structures, and effectiveness.
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Section 42 Compliance Support
Ensuring officers meet their obligations under the Health and Safety Act.
Are You Managing Change?
Why implement change management?
Before a new piece of equipment is installed or a new process used, the people using the machine should understand how it operates, what the risks are to them, and have a say in how it is installed. Worker involvement is required under HSWA 2015, ISO 45001 and is good sense.
How we can help
Safe and Sound Consultants can increase buy-in and reduce implementation costs by getting worker involvement early in the procurement and change management process.
Change Management Services
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Pre Purchase Reviews
We will run training and education for workers, facilitate risk assessments, help staff to develop safe work procedures, and advise on whether any residual risk remains.
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System implementation
We can provide a gap analysis, needs and requirements scope.
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Staff Onboarding and Consultation
We can take your staff through your induction process.
Business Risk Assessment ISO 31000
What is ISO31000?
ISO 31000 is a tool that allows functions across your business to identify and communicate risks and opportunities from their area in a clear and consistent way. The advantage of a Risk Management framework is to facilitate communication of risk across the business.
How we can help
Safe and Sound has experience helping businesses implement and maintain an enterprise risk management system. We ultilise the Risk Maturity Model to help businesses know where it is on the risk management journey. We help you move from "reactive" to "strategic," ensuring your risk reporting feeds directly into company-wide plans and meets ISO 31000 global standards.
Business Risk Assessment Services
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Training
We can train staff on ISO 31000 and risk management principles and techniques
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Gap Analysis
We can run a gap analysis to identify where to prioritise implementation and training and use the risk maturity model to show what the next steps are.
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Risk Identification and Assessment
We facilitate the initial and follow up reviews based on a schedule that suits you and your business.
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Communication and Consultation
We facilitate communication and consultation so that optimising risk in one area of the business does not increase risk elsewhere and negatively affect the business overall.
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Review & Reporting
We can produce a comprehensive risk and opportunity report based on regular risk reviews that can feed into companywide strategic plans.
Why choose Safe & Sound Solutions?
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Industry Experts
Work with a diverse team of qualified consultants who bring decades of practical experience and industry knowledge to every project.
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Solutions Focused
We deliver practical, tailored solutions that add measurable value to your operations. Our approach goes beyond simple "tick-box" compliance; we partner with you on a genuine health and safety journey, building custom systems that fit your business perfectly to achieve lasting, reliable results.
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Proven Reliability
With over 20 years of trusted service nationwide, we are the partner organisations count on for consistent, high-impact results.