Simple Foundry published the State of Safety Survey 2026 by Christian Harris.

Simple Foundry is a specialist consultancy for in-house health and safety leaders in multi-site organisations. We build simple foundations that make safety an outcome of operational excellence. The pattern we keep meeting? A small central EHS team, 3 to 15 people, carrying an estate many times its size. Digitised enough to have data problems, not resourced enough to have solved them. Safety being done to the business rather than owned by it. Five service lines, in the order clients usually need them: 1) AI readiness & governance - where AI helps in EHS, who checks the output, and what must be governed before anyone switches it on. 2) Data & insight - data lifecycle, KPI narratives, leading indicators, and what a number signals to a board, an insurer, a regulator and the workforce (rarely the same thing). 3) System selection & switch advisory - buyer-side and strictly vendor-neutral: requirements, data readiness before migration, structured evaluation, adoption planning. No referral, reseller or commission arrangements with any vendor. 4) Simplification & ownership - rebuilding overgrown frameworks on simple foundations, so the right people own their own risks. 5) Team competency & resilience - evidence-graded capability mapping, succession and single-point-of-failure analysis, and the AI actors now doing part of the work. What clients get: fewer accidents and claims, data the board trusts, systems chosen on evidence rather than a demo, and a line that owns its own risk. Workshops, bounded projects and multi-month programmes, delivered for the BBC, City of London Corporation, Global, GEA and more; frontline to C-suite. Founded and run by Peter Jenkins: nearly ten years in-house to Director level, two years of transformation consultancy, and a year leading UK expansion for a global EHS software provider. Three sides of the same table. The order of work is simplification, digitisation, automation. Never the other way round. peter@simplefoundry.co.uk