Security and Safety Solutions provides independent security consultancy services for businesses and organisations across the UK. Our consultants conduct threat and risk assessments, develop protective security strategies and advise on measures proportionate to each client’s specific circumstances and risk profile.

Security Consultant, and Managing Director, Tom Richmond

Expert Security Consultants for Managing Security and Safety Risk in Your Operations

Our professional security consultants specialise in delivering expert advice and guidance. Furthermore, their knowledge is built on extensive international experience in security consulting and risk management. As a result, clients benefit from informed, practical recommendations that reflect real-world operational understanding.

Specifically, our security consulting service integrates directly with your teams. Together, we identify both current and emerging risks. We then help you understand these risks clearly and implement effective mitigation measures. Consequently, your people, assets, and operations remain protected. This approach also allows you to focus on your core business activities while maintaining a safe and secure environment.

Our consultants are highly flexible in how they work. Moreover, they can operate independently, advise your executive board, or embed within your project teams. Additionally, they can enhance your existing security function by providing specialist insight. You may need a strategic security consultant, a physical security consultant, or ongoing advisory support. In all cases, we provide security consultants in London and across the UK. Our experts have also delivered subject matter commentary across major UK media outlets.

How Our Consultants Support You

Our consultants can support you to manage risk associated with:

  • Business projects where you need experienced security consultants to work with your team

  • Significant changes to your business operation that might increase risk

  • Educating executive boards on risk management and mitigation

  • To provide additional technical guidance from our security consultants to your in-house security team

  • Restructuring personnel

  • Mergers and takeovers

  • Building and site surveys to identify and mitigate risk

  • Investigations into serious crime or serious employee policy breach

  • Business resilience and continuity planning

  • Activist and protest groups

  • Travel security and safety

  • Large-scale corporate events.

Contact us to arrange a no obligation meeting with one of our specialist professional security consultants. Naturally, we look forward to showing you how our business can support you.

Security consulting for businesses from start-ups to FTSE 100 companies
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Check out our case study Successfully Managing Risks and Improving Business Continuity for Large UK Airport Expansion Project.

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    Successfully Managing Risks and Improving Business Continuity for Large UK Airport Expansion Project

     

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Security consultants here to support you

As a leading security consultancy, our team have an in-depth understanding of the risks faced by modern organisations. Furthermore, we work closely with clients to assess their security needs. Together, we develop customised solutions that protect employees, assets, and customers. In short, whether you need stronger physical security, board-level guidance, or support with a specific project, our consultants have the expertise to help.

In fact, our team is available 24 hours a day should you need us. We are happy to meet you in person for an introductory consultation. Alternatively, if a conference call is more convenient, we will work around your schedule. You can also review our guidance on how businesses can better understand threats and risk.

Contact us to discuss our security consulting services. In particular, we can connect you with a dedicated security consultant or physical security consultant to enhance your safety and security.

Managing Director Tom Richmond

The Services We Deliver

Our consulting work spans the full lifecycle of organisational security risk. We deliver threat and risk assessments in writing, suitable for board reporting, insurance, regulatory submissions and your own internal planning, using industry-standard methodology adapted to your context rather than boilerplate. We deliver security strategy and policy development, turning a list of risks into a costed plan covering what to do, who owns it, how it is measured, and how much it costs. We provide travel risk and protective security advice for executives, journalists, NGO staff and family offices, including country briefings, journey management plans, communications protocols and emergency response procedures. We run site and venue security audits with physical site walks, control-room reviews, access-control assessments and crisis procedure rehearsals, useful pre-purchase, pre-occupation or pre-event. We build crisis management and business continuity playbooks for kidnap and ransom, terrorist incident response, evacuation planning and post-incident communications. For major construction, infrastructure and event projects, we provide project security management with a Security Manager who sits within your project team for the duration. We provide expert witness and litigation support with written and oral testimony in security-related civil and criminal proceedings. And we deliver training and capability building for client-side teams in personal safety, threat awareness, hostile environment work and incident response.

Sectors We Know

We work across construction and infrastructure on site security planning, contractor vetting, asset protection, and HSE/security integration, from small UK refurbishments to major international developments. With family offices and ultra-high-net-worth individuals on discreet holistic security planning across residences, travel, staff and digital exposure. With corporate and professional services at board level on briefings, executive protection programmes, office and travel security for international firms. With charitable, NGO and humanitarian clients on journey management for staff in higher-threat operating environments, with the proportionality and cost-sensitivity those clients need. With retail and hospitality on loss prevention strategy, store and restaurant security audits, lone-worker policies, and Martyn’s Law compliance for venues in scope. And with sport, entertainment and creative production on venue security, talent protection and asset security for productions on the move.

How We Engage

Most engagements start with a free, confidential 30-minute scoping call. After that, you get a short written proposal with scope, timeline and fixed fee. From there, work falls into one of four shapes. Single deliverables such as a risk assessment, audit or policy review, typically 2 to 6 weeks. Project security management as an embedded role for a defined period, ranging from a one-week event to a multi-year construction programme. Retained advisory on a monthly or quarterly basis, often used by family offices and growth-stage businesses for ongoing oversight without an in-house hire. And expert witness engagements as required by the matter.

The security consultancy market is full of glossy reports and generic frameworks. We do something different. We give you decisions, not chapters. Reports are short, written for your audience whether board, regulator or insurer, and end with a costed action list. We have operated in the environments we advise on. Our managing director is a former British Army Royal Military Police Close Protection officer with operational experience across UK and international postings, and holds the ASIS CPP, IFPO CSM, NEBOSH National Diploma in Health and Safety, and ASIM credentials. We are independent and do not sell guards, equipment or systems off the back of our consultancy work. And we work to your budget honestly, with smaller engagements, single workshops or one-off audits all on the menu.

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Security Consultancy Services Across the UK

Our security consultancy team operates throughout the United Kingdom, advising private individuals, corporate clients and organisations on threat assessment, risk management and physical security planning.

All security consultancy engagements begin with a structured assessment of your current risk posture, threat environment and operational vulnerabilities. Contact us to arrange a confidential consultation.