Pharos Safety

Pharos Safety is a specialist risk management and emergency response consultancy serving the travel, adventure and education sectors.

We can provide your school with access to a range of integrated services and experienced professionals who can assist you with every aspect of planning your trips.

This includes produce risk assessments, assess venues and providers, deliver training and consultancy services and also respond to an emergency or crisis.

Our British Standard 8848 Trips Audit includes:

• Internal audit of your existing safety management systems and suppliers
• Consultancy and advice on safety management systems, including reviewing and writing risk assessments and procedures
• Incident investigation following accidents and near misses
• Expert advice on travel communications systems and equipment hire of satellite phones and distress beacons
• Medical review of destinations and travellers
• Retained H&S advice, fulfilling legal obligations to have access to expertise
• Strategic sourcing of staff with specific competencies including health & safety, travel and activity sector management.
• Destination and activity advice during new travel product development processes

Our 24/7 Response Service is on call to assist you with any emergency, anywhere in the world, while our front line call handling and call overflow facility also provides resilience to your own duty system, providing confidence that those all-important emergency calls will never be missed.

We can deliver bespoke training packages to suit your particular needs with interactive presentations and workshops to engage and focus minds on the ‘what if’. Typically this may cover topics such as: how to write a crisis plan, how to implement your crisis plan, what do we mean by a crisis, how to manage a crisis, how to manage the media, facing the press and stakeholder communications.