Someone who already knows your site.
Most consulting arrives, reports, and leaves. An annual agreement puts the same person back in your plant on a schedule, working from what was found last time rather than starting over.
The second visit is worth more than the first.
A one-off assessment tells you where you stand. It cannot tell you whether anything changed, and it cannot follow a corrective action to the point where the work actually looks different.
What changes
- Findings get closed and verified rather than filed
- Leadership reviews build on the last conversation
- Training is planned into the year instead of bought under pressure
- You stop re-explaining your operation every engagement
Who it fits
A site with real risk and no full-time EHS resource, or one where that resource is stretched across too many plants. If you already have a capable safety manager on site, the better use of an agreement is leadership development and system review, not another set of walkthroughs.
A starting point, not a price list.
Scope varies with site size, risk profile, complexity, travel and how often you want someone on the floor. These two shapes give the conversation somewhere to begin; the agreement is written to your site.
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Review
A quarterly walkthrough, an annual management-system review, policy and program review, and annual risk trending with an executive summary. Advisory access between visits. Enough to keep the system honest and give leadership a defensible picture of where the site stands.
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Sustained
A walkthrough every other month, a quarterly leadership review, defined training sessions, incident review and corrective-action follow-up, and the annual system review. The level at which findings reliably get closed rather than logged.
Assembled to the site.
No two agreements carry the same elements. These are what is available to draw from.
- Periodic safety assessments and facility walkthroughs
- Monthly or quarterly leadership reviews
- Defined training sessions
- Safety leadership development
- Incident review and learning support
- Policy and program review
- Regulatory and compliance support
- Corrective-action follow-up
- Advisory access between visits
- Annual management-system review
- Periodic risk trending and executive reporting
Work outside the agreement
An incident investigation, a new program build, an unplanned training day — work that falls outside the scope is available at a contracted rate named in the agreement itself. The rate conversation happens when the agreement is signed, not in the week you need the help.
How this differs from fractional leadership
An annual agreement is delivery. Headland performs the assessments, runs the reviews, follows the corrective actions and does the work.
Fractional leadership is advisory. Headland sits with your leadership team, shapes the strategy and the priorities, and your organization executes it.
Ask what an agreement would look like at your site.
Tell us the size of the operation, the risk you are carrying and what EHS resource you have today. We will come back with a shape and a price before any work starts.