What does a health and safety consultant do?

A health and safety consultant advises businesses on how to comply with health and safety regulations, identifies compliance gaps, builds documentation, delivers training, and helps businesses manage workplace risk. Arinite's Chartered consultants act as your legal competent person.

Do I legally need a health and safety consultant?

The Health and Safety at Work Act requires every employer to appoint a competent person for health and safety. If nobody in your business has the necessary qualifications, you are legally required to appoint external support.

What is a competent person for health and safety?

Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, a competent person is an individual with sufficient training, experience, knowledge, and other qualities to assist an employer in meeting their legal health and safety obligations.

What qualifications do Arinite's health and safety consultants hold?

Arinite consultants hold IOSH Chartered status, representing the top 5% of health and safety professionals worldwide, plus NEBOSH, CMIOSH, MSc, and specialist certifications.

What is a health and safety audit and do I need one?

A health and safety audit is a systematic review of your management system against current regulations. If you cannot confirm complete compliance, you need one. Arinite delivers audits producing 40 to 80 pages of documentation within 5 business days.

What is ISO 45001 and does my business need it?

ISO 45001:2018 is the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems. It is increasingly required for enterprise tenders and international operations.

Do you provide health and safety consultants outside the UK?

Yes. Arinite operates across 50+ countries on 6 continents with locally based, locally qualified professionals.

How much does outsourced health and safety cost?

In most cases, Arinite costs less than a single internal health and safety manager hire. Pricing is based on business size, locations, and support level.

How quickly can you start?

Done For You: maximum 8 new clients per quarter. Done With You and Do It Yourself: onboarding begins within days.

What happens on the Free Gap Analysis Call?

A 30-minute call with a Chartered consultant reviewing your arrangements, identifying gaps, and giving you a clear picture of your legal exposure. If we cannot find at least one gap, we send you £50.

Can I use the health and safety software without consultancy support?

Yes. The Do It Yourself model gives your team full access to the compliance platform with ongoing software support.

The Health and Safety
Compliance System.
Consultants + Software.
Globally.

What Compliance Gaps Are Hiding in Your Business?

Most businesses find out when an inspector walks in unannounced.

Arinite finds them first.

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call Contact Us

Countries

Businesses Protected

Employees Protected

0%+

Client Retention

Chartered Health and Safety Consultants

HSE Competent Person

Health and Safety Software

Gap Guarantee

Can't find a gap? We pay you. 15 years — never paid out.

Arinite is certified to ISO 45001:2018, the international standard for occupational health and safety management systems.

Different sectors. Different sizes. Different countries.

One thing in common: they wanted their workplace health and safety confirmed by a chartered health and safety consultant before an inspector did.

Are you next?

Figma

Akamai

SUSE

Nikon

Shutterstock

Hearst

B&Q

IPG

Bell Rock Capital

UPS

Figma

Akamai

SUSE

Nikon

Shutterstock

Hearst

B&Q

IPG

Bell Rock Capital

UPS

Figma

Akamai

SUSE

Nikon

Shutterstock

Hearst

B&Q

IPG

Bell Rock Capital

UPS

Health & Safety ConsultantsConsultants

EHS SoftwareEHS Software

Arinite AIArinite AI

CONSULTANTS + SOFTWARE

Where Health and Safety Consultants
Meet Compliance Software.
Globally.

Health & Safety Consultants+EHS Software+Arinite AI

Consultants+EHS Software+Arinite AI

Compliance

Traditional consultancies audit, report and leave. You get a document and the job of implementing it.

Control

Software companies give you dashboards and workflows without the knowledge to use them.

Coverage

Global businesses need consultants who know compliance in every jurisdiction.

Arinite

We are not a consultancy that adds external software. We are not a software company that recommends consultants.

We are the place where those two things finally become one.

FEATURED MEDIA

Recognised by leading global media outlets for our approach to health & safety compliance.

Featured In Leading Global Media

From NBC to Yahoo Finance, our work in workplace health & safety compliance has been recognised across the world's most trusted media platforms.

Business Insider

ABC

MarketWatch

CBC

Street Insider

Yahoo Finance

NBC

AP News

FOX

Business Insider

ABC

MarketWatch

CBC

Street Insider

Yahoo Finance

NBC

AP News

FOX

Business Insider

ABC

MarketWatch

CBC

Street Insider

Yahoo Finance

NBC

AP News

FOX

THE PROBLEM

You do not get a warning.

Health and Safety Executive inspectors do not call ahead. They do not ask if Tuesday works.

HSE carried out over 13,200 workplace inspections in 2024/25.

They arrive, review your health and safety arrangements, and decide on the spot whether what you can demonstrate is adequate and complies with local health and safety law. Whether your health and safety policy is current. Whether your competent person appointment is documented in writing. Whether your workplace health and safety holds up under scrutiny.

One in three of those health and safety inspections ends in formal enforcement action.

Here are the office health and safety failures they find most often in low-risk office environments.

If a risk is not formally identified and documented, health and safety laws treat it as unmanaged: not partially managed, unmanaged. Health and safety inspectors do not accept partial coverage across activities, areas, or people.

Can you produce yours right now, for every activity your business carries out?

That is seven of the most common findings.

There are five more that apply specifically to your sector, your working patterns, and the countries where you operate.

The only way to know which ones apply to your business is to find out.

Find Out Which Gaps Apply to My Business

OUR PROVEN SYSTEM

The Arinite Transformation™

From Reactive Firefighting to Proactive Health & Safety Compliance

STAGE 1

REACTIVE(Where 60% of Businesses Operate)

No formal HSE systems in place. Everything is reactive, waiting for something to go wrong. Documentation is missing or outdated.

Why It's Dangerous:

✗£50K-£150K average fine when (not if) HSE inspects
✗Can't bid on contracts requiring HSE certification
✗One accident away from director prosecution

This isn't just "non-compliant." It's criminally negligent. Directors face personal prosecution.

STAGE 2

COMPLIANCE(Where Most Businesses Stop)

Basic HSE documentation is in place. Minimum legal requirements met. You can pass a basic audit.

Why It's Better (But Not Enough):

✓Legal protection (no fines if inspected)
✓Can bid on contracts requiring certification
✓Pass basic client audits
✗Still reactive (problems arise, then you respond)
✗Compliance maintained by one person (bottleneck)
✗Systems don't run themselves

Compliance is where most consultants get you, then leave. You're legal, but you're not optimised.

STAGE 3

PROACTIVE(Where Arinite Clients Operate)

Systems run proactively, preventing problems before they occur. Compliance is distributed, not dependent on one person.

Why It's Transformational:

✓Win more contracts (HSE certification opens doors)
✓Save 20+ hours/week (systems run themselves)
✓Peace of mind (sleep soundly, without the fear of prosecution)
✓Focus on your core business while we handle compliance

That's why 95%+ of clients renew year after year.

The Arinite Difference:

”

Robert Winsloe

Managing Director, Arinite

“We work with you to deliver peace of mind. We tailor our service provision to your business to provide proactive, pragmatic health and safety advice and that helps reduce costs by ensuring compliance with relevant health and safety legislation.”

Other Consultants

Get you to Stage 2 (Compliant) and disappear.

Arinite

Gets you to Stage 3 (Proactive) and keeps you there.

That's why we call it transformation, not just compliance.

CONSULTANCY + SOFTWARE

Health and Safety Consultants. Compliance Software.

Every business has different health and safety needs. Arinite offers you three options: Health and Safety consultants, purpose-built H&S software, and the flexibility to choose the model that fits.

★ MOST POPULAR

Done For You

We Handle Everything

Best for: Businesses that want to fully outsource health and safety.

A Health and Safety consultant appointed as your competent person

Full health and safety management software built and maintained by our team

Health and Safety policies, risk assessments, and more

Health and Safety audits, inspections, site visits, training

Health and Safety regulatory updates, legal registers and 24/7 advice line

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

GROWING BUSINESSES

Done With You

We Partner With Your Team

Best for: Businesses with an in-house H&S person who needs Chartered-level support and a compliance platform.

Health and safety software configured for your organisation

Initial Health and Safety compliance audit and gap analysis

Health and Safety policies, risk assessments, and more

Quarterly Chartered Health and Safety consultant reviews

Health and Safety support via phone and email

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

BUILT FOR SCALE

Do It Yourself

We Give You the Platform

Best for: Businesses with competent in-house H&S teams who need a modern platform to manage compliance at scale.

Full access to Arinite's Health and Safety software

Executive Dashboard with real-time health and safety data visibility

Search4Safety for rapid document retrieval and FAQ's

Built in Ari AI for asking health and safety questions

Self-service onboarding and user guides

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

Choose How You Work With Arinite.

Not Sure Which Model Fits?

That is exactly what the Free Gap Analysis Call is for. In 30 minutes, we will assess your current health and safety arrangements and recommend the right level of support.

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

HOW IT WORKS

From Hidden Health and Safety Gaps to Clarity

Step 1

Free Health and Safety Gap Analysis Call

Identify what's missing before an inspector does.

A focused 30-minute health and safety assessment to expose weaknesses in your current arrangements.

What you get:

Clear identification of compliance gaps that inspectors commonly enforce

Straight answers on where you stand legally and local laws

A tailored pack of free Arinite Factsheets covering your specific gaps

→

You leave knowing exactly where you're exposed and what to do about it.

Step 2

Health and Safety Audit and Inspection

Turn risk into documented compliance, fast.

A health and safety consultant will conduct a comprehensive H&S audit and inspection of your workplace.

What's included:

On-site or virtual compliance audit of all health and safety activities and areas

Health and Safety risk assessments with a prioritised action plan with clear timelines

A comprehensive health and safety audit report (typically 40+ pages)

→

You move from exposed to defensible with evidence to prove it.

Step 3

Outsource Your Health & Safety — The Arinite Partnership

We become your health and safety experts. Your competent person.

You focus on your core day-to-day business, Arinite's Health and Safety consultants handle the rest.

What we take ownership of:

Legal appointment as your health and safety competent person

Creation of all required health and safety policies, procedures, and records

Implementation of health and safety management systems and compliance software

→

Compliance handled. Risk controlled. Directors protected.

THE ARINITE HEALTH AND SAFETY SOFTWARE

Knowing You Are Compliant Is One Thing.
Being Able to Prove It Is Another.

Most health and safety software stores documents. Arinite's compliance platform was built by Chartered health and safety consultants who knew what workplace health and safety compliance actually required before they wrote a line of code.

app.arinite.com

Arinite Health & Safety Software Dashboard

Every site. Every country. Every assessment colour-coded by status. Actions due this week already flagged. Your health and safety lead spends twenty minutes on the dashboard and moves on to her actual job.

Nothing overdue. Nothing assumed. Everything provable.

Available across all three models. Fully managed in Done For You. Supported in Done With You. Independently operated in Do It Yourself.

Explore the Health and Safety Software Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

WHY ARINITE

How Arinite Compares

Most businesses choose between hiring internally, using a traditional health and safety consultancy, or buying standalone health and safety software. Arinite combines all three, with the flexibility to choose how much support you need.

Brendan Tuite

Operations Director, Arinite

35+ Years Experience

50+ Countries Served

95%+ Client Retention

My Name Is Brendan Tuite.

I have been in the health and safety business for 35+ years. In that time, I have had one consistent experience across every sector and every country I have worked in.

Every business we speak to already knows, somewhere, that their workplace health and safety compliance has not kept pace with their growth. It is not ignorance. It is busyness. It is the assumption that because nothing has gone wrong yet, the gaps are probably manageable.

What stops most businesses from doing something about it is not the cost of outsourcing health and safety support. It is the fear of finding out how significant the gaps are.

The Free Gap Analysis Call exists for exactly that moment.

You get the full picture of your workplace health and safety position in 30 minutes.

“In 35+ years, I have not once had someone tell us they wished they had stayed in the dark.”

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call

CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

What 1,500+ Businesses Say About Their Health & Safety Consultants

5.0· 1,500+ reviews

Rob Guest

Group Operations Director, Greenshields JCB

“Arinite - Greenshields JCB health and safety video testimonial.”

1/5

Trusted by Industry Leaders

Join 1,500+ organisations that trust Arinite as their health and safety consultants.

5.0 Rating

View All Testimonials Become a Client Today

OUR TEAM

The Chartered Health and Safety
Consultants Behind Your Compliance

Not a managed service operated by generalists. Not a health and safety software platform supported by a helpdesk. A team of Chartered health and safety consultants with more than 500 years of combined experience across every sector and jurisdiction Arinite operates in.

William Robert Tucker

Head of Arinite's Fire Safety Division JP, MSc, BSc (hons), FIFireE.

35 Years of Experience

For 35 years, William has been the authority on fire safety, from leading the national Fire Service College's Fire Safety Division to serving as Deputy Chief Fire Officer commanding 1,000+ personnel across operational and emergency response.

Areas of expertise

Fire Safety, CMIOSH, Fire Risk Assessments

Jan Mirkowski

International and UK Services Director CMIOSH, BSc, MBA

40 Years of Experience

With 40 years of building H&S management systems across Europe, fluent in English, French, and German, Jan is Arinite's secret weapon for businesses operating internationally. He has Health & Safety experience in Offices, Retail, Manufacturing, Logistics and Engineering, plus many other sectors.

Areas of expertise

Global HSE, CMIOSH, Health & Safety Operations

Michele Dean Jarvis

CMIOSH MSc NEBOSH FIIRSM MIIAI AIFSM

25 Years of Experience

Michele specialises in getting businesses through ISO 45001 and ISO 9001 audits without the stress, delays, or multiple attempts most companies face. As a qualified Lead Auditor for both ISO 9001:2015 (Quality) and ISO 45001:2018 (Health & Safety), Michele knows exactly what auditors look for because she IS an auditor.

Areas of expertise

ISO 9001:2015, ISO 45001:2018, Health & Safety Audit

1/5

Meet the Full Team

YOUR INDUSTRY

Different Sectors. Different Health and Safety Laws.

The Same Consequence When They Are Not Met.

TECHNOLOGY AND SAAS

Health and safety regulations apply to every office environment, regardless of sector.

Most Common Workplace Health and Safety Failures We Find:

✗No DSE assessments for remote or hybrid workers: the most consistently enforced gap we find in tech businesses and one of the clearest violations of current health and safety regulations
✗No health and safety risk assessment covering how people work: written once during setup and never updated to reflect hybrid working, headcount growth, or new locations
✗No health and safety policy covering remote working: the Health and Safety at Work Act applies to every employee regardless of where they work

An office with 150 employees and no assessed home workstations is not just an office. It is a health and safety inspection waiting for a date.

Book My Free Tech Sector Gap Analysis

Why Tech Companies Get Caught

"We're just an office."

Health and safety law applies to every employer, regardless of perceived risk. If your employees work from home even one day per week, you have the same legal obligation to assess their workstation as you do for the office.

GLOBAL COVERAGE

Not Your Sector?

Arinite provides health and safety consultants, health and safety management systems, and compliance software across 25+ sectors.

ManufacturingHealthcareEducationLogisticsRetailPharmaceuticalsReal EstateAviationHospitalityEnergy+ And More

The sector changes. The specific health and safety regulations change. What does not change: every business has compliance gaps, and the health and safety inspectors are looking for them.

Book My Free Gap Analysis Call →

GLOBAL LOCATIONS

Global Health and Safety Consultants.
International Compliance, Local Delivery.

50+ Countries. Global Safety. Local Trust.

50+ Countries

Looking for health and safety consultants near you? With Chartered consultants based across the UK and locally qualified professionals in 50+ countries, Arinite provides health and safety support wherever your offices are. Whether you need an on-site audit in London, a fire risk assessment in Manchester, or international health and safety assessments across multiple jurisdictions, we have consultants near you.

Don't see your location?

We're expanding globally

THE NUMBERS THAT MATTER

50+

Countries

1,500+

Businesses Protected

100,000+

Employees Protected

95%+

Client Retention

15+

Years as Health and Safety Consultants

50+

Chartered Consultants

500+

Years Combined Experience

3,000+

Arinite Factsheets Created

DIRECTOR LIABILITY

FREE PDF

Health and Safety Liability for Directors

If a H&S offence is committed with consent or connivance, or is attributable to the neglect of any director, manager, understand your legal obligations with this comprehensive guide.

Download your free factsheet:

FAQ

Everything You Need to Know

About Health and Safety Consultancy, Compliance Software, and Working With Arinite

Still Have Questions About Health & Safety Compliance?

Our IOSH Chartered health and safety consultants are here to help with any queries about workplace safety, compliance, or our services.

Get in Touch Call: +44 (0)20 7947 9581

Get in Touch

Have a question or need expert advice? We're here to help.

Get in Touch

Contact Arinite Today

Fill out the form below and our team will get back to you within 24 hours.

Call Us

Monday - Friday: 9AM - 6PM GMT

+44 (0)20 7947 9581

Email Us

We'll respond within 24/48 hours

Hello@arinite.com

Visit Us

Headquarters

29 Throgmorton St
London EC2N 2AT

Quick Response Guarantee

24-hour response time
Free consultation included
No obligation quote

Book Free Consultation

The Health and SafetyCompliance System.Consultants + Software.Globally.

What Compliance Gaps Are Hiding in Your Business?

Different sectors. Different sizes. Different countries.

Where Health and Safety ConsultantsMeet Compliance Software.Globally.

Featured In Leading Global Media

You do not get a warning.

Here are the office health and safety failures they find most often in low-risk office environments.

The Arinite Transformation™

REACTIVE(Where 60% of Businesses Operate)

Why It's Dangerous:

COMPLIANCE(Where Most Businesses Stop)

Why It's Better (But Not Enough):

PROACTIVE(Where Arinite Clients Operate)

Why It's Transformational:

The Arinite Difference:

Health and Safety Consultants. Compliance Software.

Done For You

Done With You

Do It Yourself

Not Sure Which Model Fits?

From Hidden Health and Safety Gaps to Clarity

Free Health and Safety Gap Analysis Call

Health and Safety Audit and Inspection

Outsource Your Health & Safety — The Arinite Partnership

Knowing You Are Compliant Is One Thing.Being Able to Prove It Is Another.

How Arinite Compares

Brendan Tuite

My Name Is Brendan Tuite.

What 1,500+ Businesses Say About Their Health & Safety Consultants

Trusted by Industry Leaders

The Chartered Health and SafetyConsultants Behind Your Compliance

William Robert Tucker

Areas of expertise

Jan Mirkowski

Areas of expertise

Michele Dean Jarvis

Areas of expertise

Different Sectors. Different Health and Safety Laws.

TECHNOLOGY AND SAAS

Why Tech Companies Get Caught

Not Your Sector?

Global Health and Safety Consultants. International Compliance, Local Delivery.

Don't see your location?

Health and Safety Liability for Directors

Everything You Need to Know

Still Have Questions About Health & Safety Compliance?

Get in Touch

Contact Arinite Today

Call Us

Email Us

Visit Us

Quick Response Guarantee

Where Health and Safety ConsultantsMeet Compliance Software.Globally.

Featured In Leading Global Media

You do not get a warning.

Here are the office health and safety failures they find most often in low-risk office environments.

The Arinite Transformation™

REACTIVE(Where 60% of Businesses Operate)

Why It's Dangerous:

COMPLIANCE(Where Most Businesses Stop)

Why It's Better (But Not Enough):

PROACTIVE(Where Arinite Clients Operate)

Why It's Transformational:

The Arinite Difference:

Health and Safety Consultants. Compliance Software.

Done For You

Done With You

Do It Yourself

Not Sure Which Model Fits?

From Hidden Health and Safety Gaps to Clarity

Free Health and Safety Gap Analysis Call

Health and Safety Audit and Inspection

Outsource Your Health & Safety — The Arinite Partnership

Knowing You Are Compliant Is One Thing.Being Able to Prove It Is Another.

How Arinite Compares

Brendan Tuite

My Name Is Brendan Tuite.

What 1,500+ Businesses Say About Their Health & Safety Consultants

Trusted by Industry Leaders

The Chartered Health and SafetyConsultants Behind Your Compliance

The Health and Safety
Compliance System.
Consultants + Software.
Globally.

Where Health and Safety Consultants
Meet Compliance Software.
Globally.

Knowing You Are Compliant Is One Thing.
Being Able to Prove It Is Another.

The Chartered Health and Safety
Consultants Behind Your Compliance

Global Health and Safety Consultants.
International Compliance, Local Delivery.

Where Health and Safety Consultants
Meet Compliance Software.
Globally.

Knowing You Are Compliant Is One Thing.
Being Able to Prove It Is Another.

The Chartered Health and Safety
Consultants Behind Your Compliance

Global Health and Safety Consultants.
International Compliance, Local Delivery.