Enhancing your environmental risk management to prevent pollution
Helping you achieve better business and environmental outcomes.
To understand your environment and the impact your operations have on it you need a partner you can trust to provide strategic advice and fast response.
We help organisations understand and monitor the environment to reduce risk and enhance performance, so that they can ensure compliance and environmental quality, increase biodiversity, and achieve their sustainability, development, and investment goals, through expert advice and bespoke, pragmatic, commercially focused solutions.
Hazard vs risk
A hazard has the potential to do harm to you or the environment. A risk is the likelihood of a hazard causing harm.
The Source–Pathway–Receptor model
Our consultants operate using the Source–Pathway–Receptor model to identify pollutant linkages.
The model describes the flow of environmental pollutants from a source, through different pathways to potential receptors. An environmental risk will contain all three. A source describes the source of pollution such as a spillage incident. The pathway allows the hazard to cause harm. A receptor is something that could be harmed like a river. All three together creates a pollutant linkage.
Informed, integrous, independent advice
- Worried about regulatory enforcement, operational downtime, and reputation damage from a pollution incident?
- Selling part of your operation but worried its environmental condition will negatively affect the price?
- Struggling to win contracts because your ESG offering is not strong enough?
- Had a loss of product and need an experienced partner to handle your environmental claim?
Your environment is fundamental to the success of your operation. As your environmental partner, it is fundamental to ours.
Explore our services
Land transaction and development
Environmental risk management
Environmental claims
Environmental permitting
Water quality monitoring
Ecology
Sustainability and Net-Zero
Chemical compliance and training
Incident management
How we help
We help loss adjuster and insurance partners manage their environmental insurance event effectively and efficiently through the full lifecycle including response, site investigation and remediation.
Clear communication, management of expectations, proactive programmes of work and management of elapsed time ensure our clients can get back up and running quickly, and with the least amount of disruption
We help investors, owners, operators, and developers to understand, manage, and reduce their geotechnical and environmental risks in land transactions and development.
By combining technical expertise and a commercially focused approach we find solutions to manage and reduce risk, so that you can achieve your business and sustainability goals
OHES Spillage Response teams are available to respond to your spillage incident 24/7.
A prompt and professional spillage response can avoid prosecution, minimise operational downtime and mitigate reputational and environmental impact.
We help fuel distributors, ADR transport operators, manufacturing, and processing facilities to remain compliant with chemical legislation including the Carriage of Dangerous Goods, DGSA, ADR, and REACH through 24/7 contracted specialist chemical advice, compliance services and training.
We help organisations to achieve their sustainability and ESG ambitions by assessing and improving their impact on people and planet so that they can enhance their reputation and commercial advantage in a responsible way.
We help clients protect the natural environment by adhering to regulatory and statutory compliance surrounding planned activities such as the development of land or unexpected event that may lead to an environmental incident.
We help organisations improve their impact on the environment through both planned and responsive water quality monitoring to evidence compliance with discharge permits or the impact of an uncontrolled discharge.
Our experts can design a bespoke water quality monitoring programme with sampling and analysis, interpretation of results with advice of compliance failures in a comprehensive report, and solutions for improving the quality of your effluent.
OHES provides specialist training to clients involved in the manufacture, storage, distribution or end use of materials which can cause damage to health or the environment. We also work with a number of industry sectors where their activities carry a risk of pollution of the environment.
Our courses are designed to help clients meet current legislative requirements and to reduce the risk of prosecution for non-compliance. They can be delivered on your premises (a cost-effective option) or via our network of training centres and facilities across the UK.
Why OHES?
Regulatory mindset
Turnkey solutions
Response
Award-winning
Experienced
“I would like to take this opportunity to thank OHES for producing such a clear and comprehensive report. In addition, both your and your client's co-operation throughout the incident was invaluable in ensuring that the environmental impact was minimised.”
Environment Agency, Midlands
Responding quickly, remediating for the long term
If a pollution incident isn’t managed correctly, it can have a far-reaching impact on the environment around your operation. Our experts can respond to any pollution incident 24/7 365, offering consultancy-led advice and remediation strategies to restore your sites environment to its former state.
Providing vital evidence of environmental responsibility
We are a trusted partner to the major water companies, providing vital evidence to the Environment Agency of their environmental responsibility. Our teams conduct assessments of water quality monitoring rivers and lakes for diffuse and point source pollution as well as performing high-level, catchment-wide nutrients investigations.
Managing environmental claims
We support our loss adjuster and insurance partners through the whole lifecycle of an insured event where either property or the environment is contaminated by pollution with our response, site investigation, and remediation services.
Your environmental risk reduction partner, ensuring the safety of your people, property, reputation and the environment
Our experts are on hand to provide tailored investigation, consultancy, response and remediation services to help you balance commercial objectives and environmental compliance.
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