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Health and safety retainers to fully manage your compliance
With our Health and Safety Retainers, a dedicated Health and Safety consultant becomes your Competent Person. Your multi-site operation gets continuous compliance support. Your team gets expert guidance. You get peace of mind.
IOSH Approved | 98% Client Retention | 400+ Active Partnerships
Three questions that keep you awake
01
Who is personally responsible when something goes wrong?
If there's an incident tomorrow, can you point to one person accountable for your health and safety compliance? Or does responsibility fragment across rotating consultants, internal staff, and software portals?
02
What happens if an inspector arrives unannounced?
Are you 100% certain nothing critical is being missed across all your sites? Could you produce documentation in minutes, not days?
03
Is your current approach actually protecting you or just ticking boxes?
Fragmented advice. Rotating faces. Gaps between audits. Does this sound like genuine protection?
Your outsourced Health & Safety partner. Complete support. No gaps.
The Opus Safety Partnership gives you a dedicated expert who is with you every step of the way and becomes and extension of your team.
Proactive management
A dedicated consultant who knows your business and prevents incidents before they happen.
Done-for-you delivery
We write the assessments, conduct the audits, and implement the solutions. You get outcomes, not homework.
Operational integration
Designed around your shift patterns, production schedules, and seasonal demands - not a generic compliance calendar.
The difference between advice and accountability
Most consultants tell you what to do. We take an active role in your compliance programme as your named Competent Person under UK law.
When compliance fails, the consequences are fines, prosecution, lost contracts, and reputational damage. Without a Competent Person, your business carries that exposure alone.
98%
Client retention rate
300+
Combined years of experience
400+
Active partnerships
What sets us apart
We're with you every step of the way, we know exactly what to look for, and we give commercially sound advice that fits your business.
We become
your competent
person under UK law
Most consultants audit, report, and leave. We stay. As your Competent Person, we take legal responsibility under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999. Risk assessments written, audits conducted, training delivered.
Founded by Ex-Enforcement Officers who know exactly what to look for
Many of our consultants are former Environmental Health Officers and HSE inspectors. They've been on the other side of the clipboard. They know what triggers enforcement action and how to make sure you never face it.
Deep expertise
in your sector, not generic H&S advice
We don't send a generalist. We match you with a consultant who knows your sector – forklift operations in builders merchants, COSHH in manufacturing, seasonal risk in garden centres.
There between visits, not just when something goes wrong
Most consultancies show up for the project, send a report, and disappear. Your consultant works to a fixed operating rhythm - scheduled site visits, regular compliance reviews, and a direct line between visits when something needs answering. Compliance is built through consistent contact, not one-off interventions.
The real difference between reactive safety and a dedicated partner
Both approaches cost. Only one of them gives you accountability, continuity and peace of mind.
Reactive Safety Approach
Pay per project. Different face each time.
Opus Safety Partnership
Fixed monthly fee. One dedicated expert. Total ownership.
Not sure which fits? Speak to a consultant - no commitment required.
Ready to get started?
Speak to a consultant for a free safety safety consultation. We'll walk through your current setup, flag where you're exposed, and tell you whether a Partnership is the right fit. No prep required from you.
Everything you need to stay compliant
Core Consultancy
Your dedicated consultant handles the full spectrum of health and safety consultancy from writing risk assessments to supporting you through enforcement inspections. Done for you, not left with you.
Training
To support our partnership and up skill your team, we can offer additional training such as IOSH and NEBOSH qualifications and sector specific training to ensure your team gets the training they need, without you having to organise it. Our full training suite can be found here.
Compliance Cloud
Full access to the Compliance Cloud platform - the same tool your consultant uses. Real-time dashboards, document library, incident reporting and task management all in one place.
Sector-specific compliance
Builders Merchants
Yard operations, loading safety, and customer-facing risk management. We understand the unique challenges of trade retail environments.
Warehousing & Logistics
MHE-intensive operations, racking safety, and loading bay risks. You need someone who can induct peak-season temps fast and ensure your night shift isn't a compliance blind spot.
Manufacturing & Engineering
24/7 production, machinery guarding, hot work, and COSHH exposure. You need someone who understands the tension between output targets and keeping people safe - and how to manage both.
Garden Centres
Seasonal displays changing weekly. Family footfall alongside forklift operations. Food hygiene in the café. Whether you're one site or ten - your risks are real and your compliance matters. You need someone who sees the full picture, not just the obvious risks.
Metal Stockholders
Heavy lifting, cutting operations, and materials handling across indoor and outdoor yards. Crane safety, manual handling risks, and COSHH exposure from oils and coatings. Your consultant knows this environment - not just the regulations that apply to it.
Childcare & Nurseries
Safeguarding requirements, fire safety in buildings designed for small children, food hygiene, outdoor play areas, and regulatory inspections from Ofsted as well as HSE. Your risk profile is unique - your consultant should be too.
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What a dedicated safety partner looks like in practice
McLaughlan Transport - family-owned haulage company, Perth, Scotland. 50 employees. Five-acre site including cold storage, parking, office space, and workshop facilities.
50
staff with role-based training in place
1
Opus Safety named consultant
Full
site risk assessed across all operations
See what a dedicated Health and Safety partner could do for your business
No cost. No obligation. A 30-minute conversation with a
consultant who understands your sector.
Frequently asked questions
Do I really need a full Partnership if I'm already managing HSE in-house?
How quickly can you start if we have an urgent HSE inspection coming up?
Can you work with our existing systems?
What happens if our dedicated consultant leaves Opus Safety?
What if we need specialist assessments (fire, asbestos, noise, legionella)?
How is a Competent Person different to a Competent Advisor?
Will this create more work for my team?
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