Safety & Risk Management Consulting
Solve Safety Challenges.
Strengthen Leadership.
Build Resilient Operations.
Even strong safety programs can stall. Hazards still get missed, leaders juggle competing priorities, and investigations don’t always result in lasting change. The challenge often isn’t effort—it’s that systems, processes, and culture aren’t fully aligned to make safety stick.
COVE understands this.
For years, our team of seasoned executive safety leaders has helped organizations move beyond individual skills to address the root causes of safety gaps. Building on our success with Visual Literacy, we now offer strategic safety consulting designed to align leadership, systems, and risk management strategies to drive lasting performance.
Our Approach
We bring decades of executive safety leadership experience and a proven record of helping organizations reduce serious injuries and fatalities, strengthen operational risk management, and embed proactive safety behaviors.
Our consulting is grounded in these core focus areas:
- Leading major cultural transformations
- Designing and improving safety and risk management systems
- Developing accountable safety leadership
- Driving serious injury and fatality (SIF) prevention strategies
Consulting Services
Safety Leadership Development
Strong, accountable safety performance starts with leadership—at every level. When leaders consistently model proactive safety behaviors, teams follow their example.
Safety leadership development focuses on:
One-on-one coaching across all leadership levels
Development of core safety leadership competencies
Training programs that reinforce modeling, messaging, and maintaining proactive safety practices
Equipping leaders with tools to be present, visible, and effective decision-makers
The Result: A leadership team that drives safety performance through consistent actions, clear expectations, and genuine engagement in the field.
Incident Management Consulting
An effective incident management system does more than record events—it ensures every incident leads to stronger prevention and learning. A well-designed approach improves consistency, builds trust, and closes the loop between finding issues and fixing them.
Incident management consulting focuses on:
Creating clear, fit-for-purpose standards and procedures
Applying proven analysis frameworks (e.g., Learning Teams, HFACS, 5 Whys)
Assessing and improving the quality of investigations, learning culture and organizational accountability
Strategic consulting to optimize response protocols, communication pathways, and feedback loops
The Result: A process that captures meaningful insights and drives real change.
Serious Injury & Fatality (SIF) Prevention Strategy
Our team has deep experience in developing and implementing effective SIF prevention strategies. We help clients assess their current performance, identify gaps, and build leading-indicator strategies that mitigate high-energy hazards.
SIF consulting focuses on:
Audits of current SIF prevention efforts
Identification of precursors and systemic risk factors
Development of SIF-specific leading indicators and mitigation plans
Integration of SIF principles into frontline tools and leadership behaviors
The Result: A targeted, measurable approach that reduces exposure to your highest-risk hazards.
Risk Management
Risk is present in every task—but how it’s understood, evaluated, and controlled determines outcomes. Proactive risk management builds the connection between awareness, decision-making, and effective controls.
Risk management support includes:
Field-based assessments of risk practices and exposures
Coaching and training on visual and cognitive risk assessment
Integrating human factors into how risk is evaluated and managed
Strengthening pre-job briefings, hazard ID tools, and frontline engagement
The Result: A workforce that identifies, communicates, and mitigates risk before it becomes an incident.
Safety Management System (SMS) Development & Integration
Whether building new systems or improving existing ones, we guide organizations in creating fit-for-purpose, sustainable safety management systems that embed learning and drive accountability.
SMS consulting focuses on:
Development or optimization of SMS frameworks
Integration of SIF, incident management, and leadership development into SMS elements
Alignment of policies, roles, and processes to support high-reliability operations
Support for implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement
The Result: Is a living system that embeds safety into everyday work and sustains performance over time.
Let’s Get Started
Whether you’re looking to reduce serious injuries and fatalities, improve your incident learning, or build a culture of safety leadership, COVE brings the practical expertise to help you get there.
Move beyond compliance. Move beyond awareness. Let’s build lasting safety excellence together.
