Global Health and Safety Consultants | Arinite

Every country where your business employs people creates its own health and safety compliance obligations. UK law applies in the UK. OSHA standards apply in the United States. The Dutch Arbowet applies in the Netherlands. The French Code du travail applies in France. None of these frameworks recognises the others, and compliance in one jurisdiction provides no protection in another. For businesses operating internationally, this creates a compliance complexity that a single-country health and safety consultant simply cannot address. Global health and safety consultants exist to close that gap — providing coordinated expert support across all jurisdictions where a business operates, maintaining consistent management standards worldwide, and ensuring that international growth never outpaces the safety management that protects workers and organisations in every market. This guide covers 12 essential things every internationally active business needs to know.

Why Global Health and Safety Consultancy Is Now a Business Essential

Ten years ago, international health and safety compliance was a concern primarily for the largest multinationals. Today it is a live operational issue for businesses of every size. Three forces have driven this change.

The pace of international expansion: UK businesses now open international offices earlier in their growth trajectory than at any previous point. A Series B technology company with 80 people may already have offices in Amsterdam, Berlin, and New York. Each office creates immediate health and safety compliance obligations in the relevant jurisdiction — obligations that neither the UK-based management team nor a domestic UK health and safety consultant is equipped to address.

The intensification of international enforcement: European, North American, and Asia-Pacific regulators have all increased enforcement activity over the past decade. French labour inspectors can enter premises without notice. Dutch NLA inspectors conduct proactive inspections across all sectors. OSHA's General Duty Clause creates broad employer liability in the US. Non-compliance discovered through regulatory inspection creates financial penalties, reputational damage, and operational disruption across all these markets.

Investor and supply chain expectations: Institutional investors, ESG rating agencies, enterprise procurement processes, and major supply chain partners increasingly require evidence of systematic health and safety management across all jurisdictions where a business operates. A UK-compliant business that cannot demonstrate equivalent standards internationally fails ESG disclosures, loses tenders, and faces investor scrutiny that domestic compliance alone cannot resolve.

Global Health and Safety Consultants address all three of these drivers simultaneously — providing the multi-jurisdiction expertise, coordinated compliance management, and consistent audit evidence that internationally active businesses need.

1. What Global Health and Safety Consultants Actually Do

Global health and safety consultants provide the same core functions as domestic consultants — risk assessment, policy development, training, audit, and advisory — but with the additional capability to do so across multiple international jurisdictions simultaneously, in compliance with each country's specific legal framework.

The core functions of global health and safety consultants:

Multi-jurisdiction risk assessment: Assessing workplace hazards in each country's operating environment against the standards that apply in that jurisdiction. A risk assessment format appropriate for UK law does not satisfy the Dutch RI&E requirement, the French DUERP obligation, or the German Gefährdungsbeurteilung standard. Global consultants develop compliant assessments for each country.

International compliance mapping: Identifying which health and safety obligations apply in each jurisdiction where the business operates — the legislation, the specific regulations, the enforcement bodies, and the current enforcement priorities in each market.

Coordinated audit programmes: Conducting International Health and Safety Audits across all locations using consistent methodology — enabling management to compare compliance performance across countries and identify where risk is highest.

Local documentation in required languages: Producing health and safety policies, risk assessments, and required programmes in the format and language required by each jurisdiction's legislation — not simply translating UK documents.

Ongoing advisory across all markets: Providing continuous access to expert guidance that covers not only the employer's home market but all jurisdictions where employees work — monitoring legislative changes in each country and communicating relevant updates proactively.

Technology-enabled group visibility: Delivering Health and Safety Consultants and Software solutions that provide group management with consolidated compliance dashboards across all international operations simultaneously.

2. The Trigger Points: When Businesses Need Global Health and Safety Support

Many businesses discover their international health and safety compliance gaps reactively — during a regulatory inspection, a failed procurement pre-qualification, or an incident investigation that reveals inadequate management systems. Understanding the trigger points that create the need for global support helps businesses act proactively rather than reactively.

Opening a first international office: The moment a business employs someone outside its home country, the host country's health and safety framework applies — from day one. There is no grace period. A UK technology company whose first Amsterdam employee starts on a Monday is subject to the Arbowet from that day, including the obligation to affiliate with a certified arbodienst occupational health service. A business without global health and safety support discovers this obligation only when a regulator or lawyer identifies the non-compliance.

Acquiring an international business: Post-acquisition integration is among the most common triggers for discovering international health and safety compliance gaps. The acquired business may have had local management of its compliance — or it may not. Baseline Health and Safety Audits of all acquired locations within the first months post-completion are standard good practice for any international acquisition.

Entering new markets through supply chain or distribution: Even where a business does not employ people directly in a new market, supply chain relationships, distribution arrangements, and joint ventures may create health and safety management obligations — particularly where the business exercises control over working conditions.

ESG reporting requirements: When institutional investors, major clients, or ESG rating agencies request evidence of health and safety management across all global operations, a business without systematic international compliance management cannot produce the evidence required. Preparing ESG disclosures retrospectively is far more demanding than maintaining systematic compliance from the outset.

Tender pre-qualification for major contracts: International tender processes — particularly in construction, professional services, financial services, and technology supply chains — increasingly require evidence of consistent health and safety management across all jurisdictions as a pass/fail pre-qualification condition.

Director or individual governance accountability: In FCA-regulated businesses and companies with board-level ESG reporting obligations, individual senior managers may carry accountability for health and safety governance across all operations — including international ones. The SMCR framework creates personal accountability that extends to the quality of safety management in overseas offices.

3. How UK Law and International Frameworks Differ — and Why This Matters

The most common misconception among UK businesses expanding internationally is that UK health and safety compliance provides a foundation for international compliance. It does not. Each jurisdiction has its own framework, and UK compliance provides no protection outside England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland.

The structural differences:

Dimension	UK (HSWA 1974 / MHSWR 1999)	Netherlands (Arbowet)	France (Code du travail)	Germany (ArbSchG)
Risk assessment	Written significant findings	Certified RI&E with external review (25+ employees)	DUERP from first employee, 40-year retention	Gefährdungsbeurteilung including psychosocial
Competent person	Named internal or external	Arbodienst mandatory	SPST affiliation mandatory	Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit mandatory
Worker participation	Safety Representatives (voluntary)	Works council rights	CSE consultation (50+ employees)	Betriebsrat co-determination
Enforcement approach	HSE + local authority	NLA proactive inspections	Labour inspectors without notice	Berufsgenossenschaften + Gewerbeaufsicht
Documentation retention	Not specified	Ongoing	40 years for DUERP	As long as relevant

Why applying UK documentation internationally fails:

A UK health and safety policy meets the requirements of Section 2(3) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It does not satisfy the French obligation to produce a DUERP (Document Unique d'Évaluation des Risques Professionnels) from the first employee, which has specific content requirements and must be retained for 40 years. Simply translating the UK policy into French creates a document that fails both tests — it is neither a compliant UK policy for French purposes nor a genuine DUERP.

The same problem applies in every jurisdiction. UK-format risk assessments do not satisfy the Dutch RI&E requirement. UK training records do not satisfy German documentation standards. UK fire risk assessments do not satisfy Australian AFSS obligations.

Global Health and Safety Consultants develop genuinely compliant documentation for each jurisdiction — not translations of UK documents, but documents designed from the ground up to meet local requirements.

4. European Health and Safety Compliance: The Jurisdictions UK Businesses Encounter Most

The European Union and its member states create the most frequently encountered international health and safety compliance environment for UK businesses. EU Framework Directive 89/391/EEC harmonised the basic principles of health and safety management across member states — but each country's implementation creates distinct practical obligations.

Netherlands

The Arbowet (Working Conditions Act) creates obligations that frequently surprise UK businesses entering the Dutch market.

Every employer must produce a RI&E (Risico-inventarisatie en evaluatie) risk assessment. For companies with 25 or more employees, the RI&E must be reviewed by a certified external expert. Every employer — from the first employee — must affiliate with a certified arbodienst (occupational health service), which provides access to occupational physician services and case management for work-related health issues. The Nederlandse Arbeidsinspectie (NLA) conducts proactive inspections across all sectors and can impose administrative fines without prosecution.

Psychosocial workload (PSA) — covering work stress, aggression, discrimination, and sexual harassment — must be explicitly addressed in the RI&E. This obligation is particularly relevant for remote-working, technology, and professional services businesses whose UK health and safety assessments rarely address PSA systematically.

France

French health and safety law imposes some of the most demanding documentation obligations in the EU.

The DUERP (Document Unique d'Évaluation des Risques Professionnels) is mandatory from the first employee — with a 40-year retention obligation. For companies with 50 or more employees, the PAPRIPACT (Programme Annuel de Prévention des Risques Professionnels et d'Amélioration des Conditions de Travail) annual prevention programme must be produced and updated each year. The CSE (Comité Social et Économique) has statutory consultation rights on working conditions and health and safety matters. French labour inspectors (inspecteurs du travail) can enter premises without notice and interview employees privately.

France's obligation de sécurité de résultat — the obligation to achieve a result, not merely to take reasonable precautions — imposes a more demanding duty standard than the UK's "so far as is reasonably practicable" test.

Germany

DGUV regulations through sector-specific Berufsgenossenschaften (employers' liability insurance associations) create the most sector-differentiated compliance environment of any major European economy.

The Gefährdungsbeurteilung (risk assessment) must include psychosocial hazards — a requirement introduced in 2013 that has no direct equivalent in UK law. The appointment of a Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit (qualified safety specialist) is mandatory for most employers, as is affiliation with a betriebsärztliche Betreuung (occupational medical service). Works council co-determination rights over health and safety arrangements are extensive and must be respected before significant changes to working conditions are implemented.

Italy

RSPP (Responsabile del Servizio di Prevenzione e Protezione) requirements mean that a designated, qualified responsible safety officer must be appointed for all employers. The DVR (Documento di Valutazione dei Rischi) risk assessment is mandatory, with specific content requirements including signatures from the RSPP, works council representative, and employer. Multi-authority enforcement through ASL (health authority), INL (labour inspectorate), and INAIL (workers' compensation) creates overlapping inspection exposure.

Spain

The LPRL (Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales) requires an evaluación de riesgos covering all hazards including — from 2025 — psychosocial risks as a primary compliance category. Burnout was formally recognised as an occupational risk in Spain from 2025. Digital disconnection protocols are mandatory. The ITSS (Inspección de Trabajo y Seguridad Social) can enter premises without notice and impose fines reaching €819,780 per violation per worker for the most serious breaches.

5. North American Health and Safety: OSHA and Canadian Frameworks

For UK and European businesses expanding to North America, two distinct national frameworks apply — each requiring specific knowledge.

United States — OSHA: OSHA's General Duty Clause requires every US employer to provide workplaces free from recognised hazards. Specific standards under 29 CFR Part 1910 (General Industry) and 29 CFR Part 1926 (Construction) create written programme requirements, recordkeeping obligations, and training mandates that differ structurally from UK and European frameworks. Twenty-two states operate their own OSHA-approved State Plan programmes with standards that may exceed federal OSHA. OSHA's 2025 deregulatory direction towards performance-based compliance increases the premium on systematic management systems.

Canada — Ontario (OHSA) and federal: Canada's occupational health and safety framework is primarily provincial. Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) — relevant for businesses in Canada's largest province — requires mandatory Joint Health and Safety Committees (JHSC) for workplaces with 20 or more workers, specific mandatory training programmes, and employer registration with the WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board). The Working for Workers Seven Act 2025 introduced significant new obligations including an administrative penalty scheme from January 2026.

For UK businesses entering North American markets: UK-standard health and safety documentation does not satisfy OSHA's written programme requirements or Ontario's OHSA compliance obligations. Global Health and Safety Consultants who understand both the home market framework and North American requirements provide the most effective support for businesses making this transition.

6. Asia-Pacific Health and Safety: Key Markets for Expanding Businesses

Australia: Australia's Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (and equivalent state laws) creates obligations through the PCBU (person conducting a business or undertaking) duty of care. Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS) are required for high-risk construction work. The WHS framework's "reasonably practicable" standard is broadly comparable to UK law but operates through distinct documentation requirements. State-based regulators enforce with powers comparable to UK HSE inspectors.

Singapore: The Workplace Safety and Health Act creates obligations enforced by the Ministry of Manpower's Occupational Safety and Health Division. Singapore's enforcement is active and penalties significant. For businesses using Singapore as an Asia-Pacific hub, WSH compliance is a live operational concern rather than a peripheral requirement.

Hong Kong and Japan: Each has its own distinct statutory framework. Hong Kong's Occupational Safety and Health Ordinance and Japan's Industrial Safety and Health Act create specific documentation, inspection, and training requirements that UK health and safety arrangements do not address.

For businesses managing Asia-Pacific operations: International Health and Safety Audits across Asia-Pacific locations using consistent methodology — aligned with ISO 45001 as the internationally recognised management system standard — provide group management with the consistent compliance visibility that regionally diverse operations require.

7. ISO 45001: The Global Health and Safety Management System Standard

ISO 45001 is the internationally recognised occupational health and safety management system standard that provides the most powerful common framework for businesses managing health and safety across multiple countries.

Why ISO 45001 matters for global health and safety management:

Consistent methodology across jurisdictions: ISO 45001 structures health and safety management through Plan-Do-Check-Act cycles applicable in every country — with each jurisdiction's specific regulatory requirements incorporated as compliance obligations within the management system. This enables genuinely comparable assessment across different legal environments.

Certified, internationally recognised evidence: ISO 45001 certification by an accredited certification body provides independently verified evidence of systematic safety management — recognised by investors, clients, supply chain partners, and regulators across all markets simultaneously.

Procurement and supply chain qualification: Enterprise clients and major supply chains in manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, and technology increasingly require ISO 45001 certification as a supply chain minimum standard. Certification gained in response to one client's requirement typically satisfies all others.

Post-acquisition integration: Following cross-border acquisitions, ISO 45001 provides a common management system framework enabling consistent safety standards across newly combined operations regardless of the jurisdictions involved.

ESG evidence: ISO 45001 certification provides the independently verified, structured evidence of OHS management that ESG disclosures and ratings agency assessments require — going beyond self-reported metrics to third-party validated performance.

Global health and safety consultants who implement ISO 45001 across international operations create the most durable and commercially valuable form of international compliance management available.

8. International Health and Safety Audits: Consistent Standards Across Borders

International Health and Safety Audits are the primary mechanism through which global health and safety consultants verify and demonstrate compliance across multi-country operations.

What makes international health and safety audits distinct from domestic audit:

Consistent methodology with local compliance layers: International audit programmes use a consistent assessment framework — typically ISO 45001-aligned — to evaluate management system quality across all locations, while incorporating jurisdiction-specific compliance requirements as additional assessment criteria for each country.

Comparable findings across jurisdictions: By using consistent methodology, international audits enable group management to benchmark compliance performance across countries — identifying not only what non-compliance exists in each location, but where relative risk is highest across the global portfolio.

Board-level assurance: Group boards and audit committees need independent assurance that health and safety is managed effectively across all international operations — not only in the home market. International audit reports provide this assurance in a format appropriate for governance reporting.

Pre-acquisition and post-acquisition audit: For businesses pursuing international acquisitions, pre-acquisition health and safety audit identifies compliance gaps that affect deal valuation and post-completion integration requirements. Post-acquisition audit establishes the baseline for integration and drives corrective action in acquired operations.

Frequency and risk-based programme design: Annual audit of all locations is standard practice. Higher-risk locations — manufacturing facilities, construction operations, chemical processing — benefit from more frequent review. The audit programme should be designed by the global health and safety consultant based on the risk profile of each location rather than administrative convenience.

9. Technology for Global Health and Safety Management

Health and Safety Consultants and Software solutions are particularly valuable for businesses managing health and safety across multiple countries — because the consistency, comparability, and administrative efficiency that global compliance requires cannot be achieved through manual, disconnected processes.

What global health and safety technology enables:

Multi-jurisdiction compliance dashboards: Real-time visibility of health and safety compliance status across all international locations simultaneously — which countries have outstanding critical audit findings, which documentation is overdue for review, where training compliance is lowest. Group management can see where risk is highest across the global portfolio without waiting for periodic reports.

Jurisdiction-configurable assessment frameworks: Digital audit and risk assessment tools configured with the specific compliance criteria for each country — RI&E requirements for Netherlands locations, DUERP format for French locations, OSHA written programme requirements for US locations — within a single, consistent platform.

Multi-language documentation: Policies, risk assessments, and required documents produced and maintained in the languages required by each jurisdiction — with version control ensuring that all locations always operate from current documentation.

Training record management across borders: Complete training histories for every employee in every country, with automatic alerts for approaching refresher dates, jurisdiction-specific training requirements, and management dashboards showing training compliance rates across the global workforce.

Incident reporting with jurisdiction-appropriate routing: Incident reports from any location automatically routed to relevant local managers and regional safety leads, with jurisdiction-specific regulatory notification support — including RIDDOR thresholds for UK locations, OSHA 8-hour/24-hour reporting for US locations, and equivalent requirements in other markets.

Group ESG reporting data: Structured health and safety performance data from all global locations — incident rates, audit findings, training completion, corrective action close-out rates — aggregated for ESG reporting, investor communications, and annual report production.

10. What to Look for When Choosing Global Health and Safety Consultants

The health and safety consultancy market is unregulated in most countries — anyone can describe themselves as a global health and safety consultant regardless of qualification, experience, or genuine international capability. Evaluating specific quality markers distinguishes genuinely capable global consultants from those offering international services without international competence.

Genuine in-country expertise — not just awareness:

There is a significant difference between a UK consultancy that is aware of Dutch, French, and German health and safety requirements and one whose consultants have genuine in-country practice knowledge of how those frameworks operate in practice. Awareness allows a consultant to describe what the regulations say. Expertise allows them to advise on how regulators interpret and enforce them, what documentation standards inspectors actually require, and what constitutes best practice in each specific market.

Ask specifically: do your consultants have direct professional experience of working within the regulatory environments of the countries where my business operates? Have they supported clients through regulatory inspections in those jurisdictions?

CMIOSH qualification and OSHCR registration (UK): For UK-based consultants, CMIOSH (Chartered Member of IOSH) and OSHCR registration, supported by the HSE, provide the baseline professional credential. Always verify that the individual consultant working with your business holds these credentials — not only the firm's most senior director.

Equivalent professional standards internationally: In the US, CSP (Certified Safety Professional) from the BCSP. In Australia, AIHS professional membership. In Germany, Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit certification. Global consultancies should be able to demonstrate that their in-country practitioners hold the recognised professional credentials in each market.

Coordination capability: A collection of local consultants who each manage their domestic market independently does not constitute a global health and safety consultancy. Genuine global capability requires coordinated methodology, shared reporting frameworks, group-level oversight, and a single point of accountability for the client's international programme.

ISO 45001 expertise: For businesses seeking internationally recognised management system certification, confirm that the consultancy has demonstrated experience implementing and maintaining ISO 45001 across multi-country operations — not only in the home market.

Technology platform: Health and Safety Consultants and Software solutions that provide consistent, comparable compliance management across all international locations are a marker of a mature global health and safety consultancy. Consultancies without integrated technology are delivering 20th-century service for a 21st-century compliance environment.

11. The Sectors That Need Global Health and Safety Consultants Most

While every internationally active business needs global health and safety support, certain sectors face the most immediate and complex international compliance demands.

Financial services and professional services: Banks, asset managers, law firms, and professional services companies with offices across major financial centres — London, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Singapore — face multi-jurisdiction compliance across all of these markets simultaneously. FCA SMCR obligations create individual governance accountability that extends to international offices. ESG reporting expectations from institutional investors are particularly demanding.

Technology: Technology businesses expanding from UK to European markets, the US, and Asia-Pacific face rapid compliance scaling challenges. Hybrid and remote-first working models create DSE, psychosocial, and working time compliance obligations in every country where employees work from home. Cybersecurity team burnout is a specific psychosocial risk requiring documented management.

Manufacturing and industrial: Manufacturing businesses with production facilities across multiple countries face the most demanding physical health and safety compliance environments — machinery safety, chemical safety, noise, and workplace transport all requiring jurisdiction-specific assessment and management.

Retail and hospitality: Retail groups and hospitality chains operating across European markets face the most varied enforcement environments — local authority environmental health in the UK, DREETS inspectors in France, Gewerbeaufsicht in Germany, and equivalent bodies in each country.

Construction and real estate: Construction businesses working across borders face CDM 2015 in the UK, OSHA 29 CFR Part 1926 in the US, and the Australian WHS Construction Work Code — each with project-specific documentation requirements that require genuine in-country expertise.

Arinite's sectors page provides specific detail on how global health and safety consultants support each industry sector across international markets.

12. How Arinite Operates as Global Health and Safety Consultants

Arinite is a City of London-headquartered global health and safety consultancy — supporting over 1,500 businesses across the UK and 50+ countries worldwide, with a 95%+ client retention rate that demonstrates the consistent, long-term value that genuinely capable global health and safety support delivers.

Arinite's global health and safety services:

International Health and Safety Audits: Consistent audit methodology across all international locations, accommodating each jurisdiction's specific requirements, and producing group-level compliance reporting that enables management to understand relative performance across the global portfolio.

Multi-jurisdiction risk assessment and documentation: Genuine locally compliant documentation — RI&E in the Netherlands, DUERP and PAPRIPACT in France, Gefährdungsbeurteilung and DGUV compliance in Germany, RSPP arrangements in Italy — produced by consultants with in-country knowledge, not adaptations of UK templates.

ISO 45001 implementation: Management system development and certification support applicable across all international operations within a single consistent framework.

Health and Safety Consultants and Software: Integrated technology platforms providing group-level compliance dashboards, multi-jurisdiction audit management, training records, incident reporting, and documentation management across all international locations.

Competent person service: Named, CMIOSH-qualified competent person appointment for UK operations, coordinated with equivalent advisory arrangements in international markets.

Health and Safety Audits: UK compliance audit alongside international programmes — ensuring that group management receives consistent assurance across all markets from a single coordinated source.

Health and Safety Outsourcing: Complete outsourcing of health and safety management across UK and international operations — providing the equivalent of senior in-house safety professionals in every jurisdiction through a single, scalable, professionally accountable external arrangement.

Named global clients demonstrating sector breadth: Bell Rock Capital (financial services), Figma, Akamai, SUSE, Nikon (technology), Shutterstock, Hearst (media), IPG (marketing), B&Q (retail) — demonstrating capability across the sectors most commonly represented in international expansion activity.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do global health and safety consultants do?

Global health and safety consultants provide coordinated health and safety management across all jurisdictions where a business employs people — developing locally compliant risk assessments and documentation, conducting consistent international audit programmes, monitoring regulatory changes in each market, and providing the expert advisory support that enables businesses to manage compliance across borders systematically.

Why can't UK health and safety compliance cover international offices?

UK health and safety law — the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and associated regulations — has no extraterritorial effect. It applies only in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Every country where employees work requires compliance with the local framework, which may differ fundamentally from UK requirements in documentation format, enforcement approach, and specific obligations.

What is the most important international health and safety obligation UK businesses miss?

The most commonly overlooked obligation is the mandatory arbodienst (occupational health service) affiliation required in the Netherlands from the first employee — a structural requirement with no UK equivalent. The French DUERP 40-year retention obligation and German psychosocial risk assessment requirement are also frequently missed by UK businesses applying domestic approaches internationally.

How do global health and safety consultants audit international operations?

International Health and Safety Audits use consistent methodology — typically ISO 45001-aligned — across all locations, with jurisdiction-specific compliance criteria incorporated for each country. This produces comparable findings enabling group management to benchmark compliance across countries and identify where risk is highest.

What qualifications should a global health and safety consultant hold?

In the UK: CMIOSH and OSHCR registration. In each international market: the recognised professional credentials of that jurisdiction — CSP/BCSP in the US, AIHS in Australia, Fachkraft für Arbeitssicherheit in Germany. Verify that the individual consultants working across each of your markets hold relevant credentials — not only the firm's UK leadership.

Does ISO 45001 certification satisfy international health and safety requirements?

ISO 45001 is a management system standard, not a regulatory compliance certificate. Implementing ISO 45001 supports systematic compliance across all jurisdictions by creating consistent hazard identification, risk control, audit, and improvement processes — with each country's specific regulatory requirements incorporated as compliance obligations within the management system. It does not replace local regulatory compliance but provides the internationally recognised management evidence that makes compliance demonstrable.

How does Arinite support businesses across 50+ countries?

Arinite provides globally coordinated health and safety support through in-country expertise in key markets, ISO 45001-aligned international audit methodology, multi-jurisdiction documentation development, and integrated technology platforms providing group-level compliance visibility. A single relationship with Arinite covers the UK home market and all international locations — with consistent, comparable standards across the entire global operation.

Taking the Next Step

International growth should never outpace the safety management that protects workers and organisations in every market. The businesses best positioned as they expand globally are those that build systematic international health and safety compliance from the first day in each new jurisdiction — not those that discover compliance gaps through regulatory inspection or commercial pre-qualification.

Assess your global compliance position: Take our Health and Safety Quiz to evaluate where your compliance currently stands across the areas that matter most to internationally active businesses.

Discuss your international operations: Book a free Gap Analysis Call with an Arinite consultant to understand your specific obligations in each jurisdiction and identify priority actions.

Engage global expert support: Contact Arinite to learn how our Global Health and Safety Consultants support businesses across 50+ countries — from UK headquarters to every office, facility, and team around the world.

Arinite is a City of London-headquartered provider of Global Health and Safety Consultants and Health and Safety Audits services to over 1,500 global businesses across 50+ countries. Key external resources: HSE enforcement statistics | ISO 45001 standard | OSHCR consultant register

Global Health and Safety Consultants: What They Do and Why Your Business Needs One