HSE inspections up 47% - HSE carried out over 13,200 workplace inspections in 2024/25.
Kenya regulates workplace safety through the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2007, enforced by the Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services. A distinctive feature is the requirement for regular statutory safety and health audits. For international and UK groups operating in Nairobi, these audits and workplace registration are central. Arinite supports businesses in Kenya, coordinating local obligations with a single group compliance standard across 50+ countries.
The framework is built on the Occupational Safety and Health Act 2007 (OSHA 2007), enforced by the Directorate of Occupational Safety and Health Services (DOSHS). Key points for any business:
Workplaces must be registered with the Directorate.
Workplaces must undergo a statutory safety and health audit at defined intervals, conducted by an approved auditor.
Hazards must be identified and controlled, with documented arrangements.
A committee is required above a defined employee threshold.
Documented arrangements and records are expected.
Arinite supports businesses in Kenya, with particular strength for international and UK groups whose Kenyan operations must meet local requirements while staying consistent with a single group compliance system. We work with locally qualified and approved practitioners.
The commercial centre.
Workplace not registered with the Directorate.
Statutory safety and health audit overdue or missing.
Risk assessments missing or generic.
Safety and health committee not established where required.
DSE and ergonomic assessments missing for office, home, and hybrid workers.
Delivered through Qualified consultants and integrated health and safety software, as part of our outsourced health and safety service.
Support with the statutory safety and health audit requirement.
Documented risk assessment covering all activities and locations.
Support with workplace registration and the safety and health committee.
For office, home, and hybrid workers.
Aligning Kenyan obligations with a single multi-jurisdiction compliance system.
Book a free gap analysis call with one of our Qualified health and safety consultants. In 30 minutes, we will assess your current arrangements, identify the compliance gaps that matter most including the statutory audit, and give you a clear recommendation and indicative cost.
From Reactive Firefighting to Proactive Health & Safety Compliance
No formal HSE systems in place. Everything is reactive, waiting for something to go wrong. Documentation is missing or outdated.
This isn't just "non-compliant." It's criminally negligent. Directors face personal prosecution.
Basic HSE documentation is in place. Minimum legal requirements met. You can pass a basic audit.
Compliance is where most consultants get you, then leave. You're legal, but you're not optimised.
Systems run proactively, preventing problems before they occur. Compliance is distributed, not dependent on one person.
That's why 95%+ of clients renew year after year.

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.

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.
50+ Countries. Global Safety. Local Trust.
Headquartered in London, UK, with Qualified health and safety consultants in 50+ countries. Whether you need a health and safety audit in Manchester, a fire risk assessment in Birmingham, or outsourced workplace health and safety compliance in Singapore, we have consultants near you.
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Operations Director, Arinite
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 business. 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.”
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