Overview
Consent, safety and certification treated as engineering rather than paperwork.
Environmental and social requirements decide whether a project proceeds, on what conditions, and whether it survives scrutiny afterwards. Addressed late, they become a delay. Addressed early, they are a design input.
We prepare impact assessments and the management plans that follow from them, assess climate and carbon exposure, and build the health and safety, ISO, safeguarding and data protection systems that turn a stated commitment into something an auditor can actually verify.
Assess, then instrument
An impact assessment that does not produce a monitorable management plan has not managed anything.
Certification readiness, not certification theatre
ISO and HSE work is built backwards from what the certification audit will test.
Safeguarding is a system
Safeguarding and data protection frameworks need reporting channels, named responsibilities and records rather than a policy document.
Services
What we deliver in this practice
Each line can be commissioned on its own or combined into a single scope of work.
- 01Environmental and social impact assessmentScreening, scoping, baseline, impact prediction and mitigation.
- 02Environmental and social management plan developmentMonitorable commitments with owners, indicators and frequency.
- 03Climate risk and resilience assessmentPhysical and transition risk against the asset or programme.
- 04Carbon accounting and emissions baseliningScope definition, inventory and reduction pathway.
- 05HSE systems design, auditing and certification supportPolicy, procedure, competence, monitoring and audit.
- 06ISO implementation and certification readinessGap analysis through to certification audit.
- 07Safeguarding and PSEA framework designPrevention, reporting, investigation and survivor-centred response.
- 08Data protection and information governance advisoryLawful basis, data flows, retention and subject rights.
Standards
The rules this work is held to.
Technical defensibility means working to frameworks a third party already recognises. These are the ones that govern this practice.
- National environmental and social assessment regulation
- International finance environmental and social performance standards
- ISO 14001 environmental management
- ISO 45001 occupational health and safety
- GHG Protocol for emissions accounting
- Safeguarding and PSEA minimum operating standards
- Data protection and information governance law
Adjacent capability
Work in this practice most often runs into these.
Bring us the constraint, not just the request.
A tender that keeps attracting the wrong bidders, a pipeline nobody can see into, a finding that has to be answered. That is where this practice is most useful.