Where we walk
Real workplaces. Real hazards.
What the numbers tell us — sector by sector — and what the work usually looks like in practice. All figures sourced and dated.
Postal and delivery
Dog attacks on postal workers in a single year. Same routes. Same dogs. Same conversations that never quite get had.
Where we usually help: route-level risk review, customer-facing communication, lone-working policy, near-miss reporting that does not feel like a punishment.
Health and care
NHS staff who experienced physical violence from patients or the public in the last twelve months. Behind that number sits a different one nobody publishes: the violence that is no longer reported because nobody believes anything will change.
Where we usually help: incident reporting that actually surfaces what is happening, leadership listening structures, training that respects the constraints frontline staff are working inside.
Construction
UK construction workers fatally injured last year. More than half — twenty-seven — fell from height. The single most preventable category of fatal injury in Britain.
Where we usually help: CDM duty clarity for clients and Principal Contractors, work-at-height planning, RAMS that someone on site actually reads.
Agriculture and forestry
Workers killed at work last year. By rate, agriculture is consistently the most dangerous sector in Britain — more than any heavy industry, by some distance.
Where we usually help: workplace transport, livestock handling, machinery safety, the long-running cultural conversation about who carries the duty when family runs the farm.
Stress, depression and anxiety
UK working days lost to work-related stress, depression and anxiety in 2023/24 — the single largest cause of lost work in the country.
Where we usually help: workplace-stress risk assessment under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, manager training that does not pretend to be therapy, escalation routes that work.
Asbestos-related disease
UK deaths a year still attributed to historical asbestos exposure — mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis combined. The bill from a hazard we knew about in 1898.
Where we usually help: duty-holder identification under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012, management-survey scoping, refer-out to licensed surveyors and removal contractors with the right ticket.
Public transport
Work-related violence and aggression incidents across TfL services in a single year. 1,709 of those, physical. Frontline, low-status, high-risk.
Where we usually help: lone-working risk assessment for customer-facing staff, incident review structures, training that builds confidence rather than just compliance.
Logistics and HGV
Of reported illness in UK transport and logistics is mental-health related. Long hours, isolation, fatigue — quietly accumulating, rarely flagged until something else gives.
Where we usually help: driver wellbeing policy, fatigue-risk assessment, working-time records that actually inform decisions, mental-health-first-aid scoping at depot level.
If you work in one of these
Twenty minutes on what we are seeing.
An honest conversation about the data, your sector, your people. No pitch. No follow-up sequence. You leave with at least one thing worth taking back to the team.
Worth a few more minutes.
Proactive safety. Plainly done.
The four moments that bring people to us, and the two ways we typically engage.
Five minutes if you sit on the board.
Section 37 personal liability, board engagement, and the commercial case — short.
Practical, considered. Free.
Templates and briefings written so the person doing the work can use them.