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SAFETY CONSULTING

Chartered Safety Consulting for High-Risk Industrial Work

We run the HSE function, own all the documentation, and embed a CMIOSH-chartered advisor on every engagement. From a single audit to managing your full safety operation, we deliver to the same chartered standard.

Industries we serve

Wind, Utilities, Power, Oil & Gas and Engineering

Chartered safety officer reviewing compliance documentation at an industrial power plant site
ISO 14001
NSAI Certified
ISO 9001
NSAI Certified
ISO 45001
NSAI Certified
CMIOSH
Founder · Chartered IOSH
NRF Member
National Recruitment Federation
Trustpilot
4.6 / 5 from 23 reviews

What we deliver

The 5 Safety Consulting Engagements We Run

Each engagement runs under one chartered HSE function and plugs straight into our HSE recruitment service when your project needs safety officers on the ground.

How Coyle consulting works

What Chartered Safety Consulting Delivers

We provide all the paperwork, execution of day-to-day operations, and the legal and operational standards needed to deliver an incident-free, injury-free project.

A managed HSE function, not a visit and a report

We embed in your project and run the safety function as a managed operation. Our chartered advisor is present on site, owns the documentation, and reports directly to your project lead.

  • Day-to-day HSE manager function
  • Real-time safety reporting and oversight
  • Strategy and performance reviews

We own the regulatory outcome, not just the advice

From CDM duty-holder advisory to PSCS compliance and accident investigation, we take the consulting deliverable to completion against your statutory obligations.

  • Audits and inspections that hold up at the next HSA or HSE visit
  • CDM 2015 and Construction Regulations 2013 duty-holder advisory
  • Statutory reporting and corrective-action plans we see through

Your documentation, audit-ready from day one

We author RAMS, Method Statements, Preliminary Safety Plans, and Construction Safety Plans to your site's specific conditions. Nothing is pulled from a generic template library.

  • All documentation remains your property
  • Authored by chartered professionals to regulator standard
  • Site-specific: no copy-paste from template libraries

What 25 Years of Chartered Consulting Looks Like

100+
Safety people in the talent pool
Degree-qualified, vertically specialised
150+
Combined management experience
Across our chartered leadership team
1M+
Hours of safety work
Delivered across 5 specialist verticals
48h
Global deployment SLA
An operational speed competitors do not publish

No-cost first step

Start With a Free Safety Culture Survey

Get a chartered read on where your site's safety culture stands today, before you commit to a consulting engagement. No obligation.

The engagement model

How We Embed In Your Project

3 steps from first call to chartered advisor on the ground, running your HSE function.

Scope the engagement

We take a brief on your project type, industry, and regulatory context. We confirm whether the engagement needs a single chartered visit, ongoing advisory, or a fully managed HSE function. Scope is agreed before any work begins.

Deploy a chartered advisor

A CMIOSH-qualified advisor is assigned to your project. They arrive already familiar with your industry, your relevant legislation, and the documentation standard your site requires. No ramp-up. No generalist approach.

Run the function and report

We execute the day-to-day safety operation: audits, documentation, policy compliance, incident response, and statutory reporting. You receive regular written reports. Your project finishes with a complete, audit-ready HSE record.

Case story: PSCS compliance

A Regulatory Failure Caught Before It Became a Fatality

During a separate assignment on a construction project, our chartered consultant identified a duplicate PSCS appointment.

Under Ireland's Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, only one Project Supervisor Construction Stage may hold authority on a project. 2 PSCS appointments create a gap in the chain of statutory accountability, with serious consequences for both the client and the contractor if an incident occurs.

We convened a stakeholder meeting, worked through the statutory process to terminate the contractor PSCS appointment, and reinstated single-authority supervision within 1 week.

The client then ran a nationwide review of PSCS appointments across their project portfolio, correcting similar errors before any regulatory exposure materialised.

Resolution

1 week

To resolve the compliance breach

Enforcement

0

Regulatory penalties or incidents

Knock-on impact

Nationwide

Portfolio review triggered

This is what a fresh pair of eyes from our PSCS advisory service delivers on a live project.

Chartered safety consultant reviewing statutory compliance documentation on a construction site

Why clients move to Coyle

Coyle vs. a Standalone Consultancy

Generalist consultancies advise. We run the function. The difference shows up in your documentation, your reporting cadence, and your regulator's confidence in your file.

Comparison of Coyle Group integrated consulting versus a standalone generalist consultancy
Feature Coyle Group Standalone Consultancy
Scope of service Pure consulting only
Advisor credential Varies by agency and assignment
Documentation ownership Advice only; client authors documentation
Deployment speed Typical 2 to 4 week lead time
After-hours access Account-manager queue or callback
ISO certification Varies; many carry none
Reporting cadence Quarterly or ad hoc summary only
Scalability New contract required for each service change

Scope of service

Standalone Consultancy

Pure consulting only

Advisor credential

Standalone Consultancy

Varies by agency and assignment

Documentation ownership

Standalone Consultancy

Advice only; client authors documentation

Deployment speed

Standalone Consultancy

Typical 2 to 4 week lead time

After-hours access

Standalone Consultancy

Account-manager queue or callback

ISO certification

Standalone Consultancy

Varies; many carry none

Reporting cadence

Standalone Consultancy

Quarterly or ad hoc summary only

Scalability

Standalone Consultancy

New contract required for each service change

Trusted by tier-one operators

Why Operators Choose Us

“It's a partnership which has achieved real improvements in our H&S performance. We look forward to continuing our journey with Coyle Group.”

Des Regan
Director Operations, Rengen Power, Ireland

“One of the top leaders when it comes to health and safety recruitment and consultancy. Coyle Group are a professional, reliable and trustworthy company with whom we have established an excellent working relationship.”

Declan Grady
Group EHS Manager, Jones Engineering

“Coyle Group offers a fresh pair of eyes: he will often spot the potential for hazard.”

Brian Linton
Projects Director, Energia, Ireland

Questions we hear most often

Safety Consulting Questions Answered

What does CDM regulations advisory involve?

We advise principal designers and principal contractors on their CDM 2015 duty-holder obligations throughout the project lifecycle. This covers pre-construction information packs, construction phase plan review, coordination between duty-holders, and competency verification of sub-contractors. Every engagement is led by a CMIOSH-chartered advisor.

How does a PSCS appointment work, and what happens if it goes wrong?

Under Ireland's Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Construction) Regulations 2013, only one Project Supervisor Construction Stage may be appointed per project. If 2 entities hold PSCS authority simultaneously, both the client and the contractor carry legal exposure. Our chartered consultant identified a duplicate PSCS appointment on a client site during a separate assignment, resolved it within one week through a managed stakeholder process, and the resolution triggered a nationwide review across that client's project portfolio.

What does a health and safety audit cover?

Our site safety audits assess the documented management system against legislative requirements, review active risk documentation including RAMS, Method Statements, and Lift Plans, inspect physical site conditions, and interview frontline workers. You receive a written report with a gap register and prioritised corrective actions. For energy and engineering sites, we include sector-specific checks for overhead-line work, MEWP operations, and lifting plan compliance under General Application Regulation 42.

Do you work on a fixed fee or a retainer?

Both models are available. Single-engagement work, such as a one-off audit, an accident investigation, or a CDM review, is priced on a fixed-fee basis. Ongoing consulting arrangements run as retainers. Managed service consulting, where we own and run the full HSE function, is structured as a monthly retainer with agreed scope and reporting outputs. We confirm the right structure on the first call.

Will I work directly with the founder?

Gavin Coyle, CMIOSH, leads every consulting engagement. He is directly reachable by phone and is on many occasions available outside business hours. 17 of our 23 Trustpilot reviews name him personally. We do not hand consulting engagements to junior advisors after the first call.

Who owns the safety documentation at the end of the engagement?

You do, fully. All RAMS, Method Statements, Construction Safety Plans, Preliminary Safety Plans, and policy documents we produce are your property from the moment they are issued. Every document is authored by a chartered safety professional against your specific site conditions and regulatory requirements.

CMIOSH · ISO 45001 NSAI

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