Ongoing regulatory advice and compliance support for UK employers — keeping you aligned with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, the Management Regulations 1999 and your industry's rules. Delivered by five CMIOSH consultants with an OSHCR-registered lead. Since 1984.
Health and safety compliance is the work of meeting your legal duties as a UK employer — principally under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, plus the regulations specific to your industry. Compliance advisory is the ongoing service of keeping you aligned with those duties as your business, your sites and the law all change.
It is broader than a one-off audit. Regulatory advisory covers monitoring legislative change, closing the gaps a compliance audit finds, keeping policy and risk assessments current, and giving you a senior consultant to call before you act — not after an HSE inspector has already been on site. For a business without a qualified H&S professional in-house, that ongoing relationship is the practical way to stay on the right side of the law.
KeyOstas has delivered UK compliance advisory since 1984. Our team of five CMIOSH consultants — led by our OSHCR-registered lead — works with you as a retained partner or on fixed-scope projects, whichever fits how your business is run.
Regulation 7 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires every UK employer to appoint at least one competent person to help meet their health and safety duties. That person can be internal or external. Our retained advisory tiers include formal Competent Person nomination with KeyOstas named as your appointed competent person.
Six core areas of ongoing compliance support, all delivered by CMIOSH-grade consultants and available as a retained package or fixed-scope project work.
We track the regulations that apply to your sector and tell you what changes — in plain English — before it affects you.
A structured review of your H&S arrangements against current law, with a prioritised list of what to fix and by when.
We keep your written H&S policy, procedures and management-system documents accurate and in date.
Review and refresh of your risk assessments so they reflect how your sites and tasks actually operate today.
Senior support before, during and after an HSE visit — including responding to improvement or prohibition notices.
Every finding becomes a tracked action with an owner and a date — closed out, not just listed in a report.
Four reasons UK employers keep KeyOstas as their compliance partner across multi-year engagements.
Five CMIOSH-grade consultants — Chartered Members of IOSH, the highest grade IOSH awards. Most one-person UK consultancies hold no Chartered grade at all.
Our lead consultant is listed on the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register — the cross-body register endorsed by HSE, IOSH and IEMA. Verify us directly on OSHCR.
No junior account managers, no offshored advice lines. The Chartered consultant who scopes your engagement on the free call is the consultant who delivers it.
Advice that closes findings, not just lists them. Documents your team will actually use. The benchmark is whether this made your business safer.
From first call to delivery, the Chartered consultant you meet is the consultant who does the work — no handoffs, no junior advisors.
Talk to a Chartered consultant. We map your current state, your regulatory exposure and your priorities. No obligation, no pitch.
Written scope, deliverables, the named consultant who will lead, and a fixed fee or retainer rate — in your inbox within one working day.
Site work, documentation and ongoing competent-person support if you need it. The consultant who scoped the work is the consultant who delivers it.
Ongoing compliance advisory runs as a retained package with published tier pricing; one-off compliance audits and remediation are quoted to scope.
Ongoing competent-person support and regulatory advice. Silver tier and above formally name KeyOstas as your appointed Competent Person under Regulation 7.
Standalone compliance audits, gap analyses, policy rewrites and remediation programmes. Written proposal within 24 hours of the scoping call.
The questions UK buyers ask us most about this service. Tap any to expand.
Yes. Every UK employer has duties under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, plus the regulations specific to their industry. Hiring an external consultant is not itself compulsory, but meeting those duties is — and Regulation 7 requires you to appoint a competent person to help.
A risk assessment looks at a specific activity or hazard and decides what controls are needed. A compliance audit is broader: it reviews your whole H&S management system — policies, procedures, records and site practice — against current law to find where you are exposed. Compliance advisory uses both: the audit finds the gaps, ongoing advisory keeps them closed.
An HSE inspector can issue an improvement notice (a deadline to put something right) or a prohibition notice (stop an activity immediately). Serious failings can lead to prosecution and unlimited fines. A retained compliance advisor helps you respond to notices correctly and, more importantly, fixes the underlying issues before an inspection happens.
At least annually, and whenever something material changes — new premises, new equipment, a change in what you do, a serious incident, or new legislation. Retained advisory builds that review cycle in so compliance is maintained continuously rather than checked once a year.
They assess your current compliance position, identify where you fall short of the law, help you close those gaps, keep your documentation and risk assessments current, monitor legislative change, and act as the competent person you can call for senior advice. At KeyOstas that consultant is CMIOSH-qualified and the same person throughout your engagement.
Our retained advisory tiers are published: Bronze £495, Silver £970, Gold £1,600 and Platinum £2,995 per year. One-off compliance audits and remediation projects are quoted on application based on scope. Across the UK market, consultant day rates typically run from £500 to £800.
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