Risk Management Consultancies Editing and Proofreading Services

A survey produces fourteen recommendations. The client reads them, agrees with all of them, does two, and forgets the rest — and the two they did were the cheap ones. Twenty months later a fire spreads through an unprotected void that was recommendation nine, and everybody involved has a copy of a report that said so.

We edit what risk surveyors and consultancies produce — survey reports and risk improvement recommendations, requirement and condition wording for insurers, business continuity and contingency documentation, site and process risk assessments for insurance purposes, thermographic and inspection reporting, and the follow-up correspondence that pursues an outstanding recommendation. Our editors work on advice that has to compete with a capital budget.

The risk improvement recommendation is the product of a survey, and its failure is a correct instruction with nothing attached to make it happen. Nobody disputes the recommendations; they simply do not do them. We work through these so each recommendation states the consequence it prevents in specific terms — what would burn, how far it would spread, how long the site would be down — since a client weighing a £40,000 spend against an unquantified risk chooses the spend they can see; so a cost estimate is given even where approximate, because a recommendation without one cannot enter a budget cycle and therefore never happens; so the recommendations are ranked and the ranking is explained, given that a list of fourteen equal items gets triaged by price and the cheap ones get done; so a deadline is attached with what the insurer will do if it passes, as a requirement with a date behaves entirely differently from a suggestion; so the interim measure is offered where the full fix is slow or expensive, since something achievable this month beats a perfect solution that waits for the next capital round; so the person who must act is named by role rather than the report being addressed to the company; so the previous survey's outstanding items are listed at the front with their age, because a recommendation carried for three years is itself the finding; and so anything that has been done since is acknowledged. Reports written this way get acted on.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including survey reports, site information and insurer correspondence. We are editors rather than surveyors, engineers or safety practitioners, and we offer no view on risk, protection or any recommendation. What we can do is give the recommendation a cost, a date and a consequence.