Southern Enterprise Awards 2025/ 30 Best Workplace Health & Safety Consultancy 2025 – South West Compliance with regulations is required, yet businessowners across the country struggle to navigate the UK’s evolving regulations on a daily basis. As more rules and regulations emerge in 2025, many businesses recognise the importance of understanding these new challenges whilst maintaining a safe working environment. Enter Safety Hands Plus, a leading compliance consultancy providing an unrivalled range of responsive, supportive, and bespoke health and safety solutions—each in alignment with the client’s individual requirements. Managing Director, Mark Townsend, told us more below. Based in Gloucester, Safety Hands Plus specialises in delivering top quality fire, safety, health, and environmental consultancy across some of the UK’s most regulated and high-risk industries, including construction, heavy engineering, manufacturing, nuclear, pharmaceuticals, data centres, asbestos abatement, and renewables. Leveraging more than three and a half decades of industry experience, the company supports a diverse clientele, ranging from SMEs to global leaders such as GE, Alstom, EDF, Wates, Ardmac, and Collen Construction. Since its inception, Safety Hands Plus’s mission has been simple: to deliver best-in-class fire and safety compliance solutions that protect people and enable businesses to succeed. Its core values-–-integrity, excellence, collaboration, care, and commercial awareness—have remained unchanged, reinforced rather than altered over time. Today, these values guide Safety Hands Plus across its operations, driving the company to deliver solutions that are effective, relevant, and rooted in safety and quality. “The complexity of today’s regulatory landscape has only strengthened our belief that safety must be humancentred, proactive, and embedded into company culture.” In a saturated market, Safety Hands Plus distinguishes itself through its ability to combine technical rigour, commercial awareness, and passion with genuine care. Rather than delivering tick-box reports, the company strives to provide practical, actionable strategies that stand-up under scrutiny, whether from the HSE, fire authorities, or ISO auditors. The success of each project is not only measured by incident reductions and audit pass rates at Safety Hands Plus, but also by the newfound confidence and resilience instilled into the organisations it supports. “What sets us apart is that we genuinely care,” Mark shared. “Every project is approached with the mindset that lives depend on our work---and often, they do. Our clients value us not just for keeping them compliant, but for creating environments where people feel safe, motivated, respected, and proud to contribute.” This care is instrumental in shaping the company’s service model; rather than serving as a compliance consultant to its clientele, Safety Hands Plus instead prefers to act as an extension of their team. The company’s compassion is driven by its vision of raising standards across industries and protecting lives, reputations, and business continuity— masterfully combining practical expertise, proactive communication, and strategic foresight to help clients thrive in environments where safety and quality are critical. This approach is becoming the preferred choice for clients across sectors, with many increasingly expecting their consultants to act as strategic partners—and not short-term fixers. The fire and safety landscape is ever evolving, currently being shaped by increased regulatory scrutiny and significant changes being made to building safety; a shift towards sustainability and environmental responsibility; a growing focus on mental health and wellbeing in alignment with the safety culture agenda; and rapid infrastructure growth— particularly in London and wider South—that is placing significant pressure on contractors to deliver under tighter deadlines and greater oversight. Of course, such a landscape requires continual innovation and advancement to remain ahead. Safety Hands Plus keeps abreast of the latest industry developments by actively contributing to industry working grounds and monitoring legislative change; leveraging insights from projects across multiple high-risk sectors to provide cross-industry best practice; integrating design tools and analytics to help clients forecast risks and track compliance in real time; and tailoring solutions to fit the organisation, rather than adjusting the organisation to fit the solution. As we move to the future, Safety Hands Plus will continue to drive the health and safety sector forward, with a number of forward-thinking initiatives designed to engage, inspire, and protect in the works. Looking ahead, the company is focused on expanding its digital offering with smarter reporting dashboards and risk-forecasting tools; supporting clients in navigating Building Safety Act requirements, particularly in high-rise, redevelopments, and complex developments; growing its work in renewables and data centres, two sectors where safety leadership is becoming increasingly critical; and continuing to mentor and develop the next generation of fire and safety professionals to strengthen the talent pipeline. “Our goal is to remain trusted partners of choice,” said Mark, “for organisations facing complex compliance challenges or clients looking for genuine support so they can focus on running their business.” Contact: Mark Townsend Company: Safety Hands Plus Ltd Web Address: www.safetyhands.co.uk
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