At the end of a year and the beginning of a new one it is timely to reflect on our business, its successes, challenges and opportunities.
Project Delivery Manager, Ryan Oak, out in the field!
Compass Environmental Consultancy has now been trading for 5 ½ years and has been selective in our approach to business, providing services only where we have deep expertise and experience. Early 2022 saw the company grow as we welcomed Ryan Oak to the newly created position of Project Delivery Manager in anticipation of growth within the commercial projects area of our business.
Watch this space!
Our Oilshield insurance and risk management scheme is rapidly approaching our 100th client! The real proof of the pudding is the 98% client retention rate, our clients like what we are offering and our friendly family approach to business. Working with our insurance partners Evergreen and Aviva, we have built on the foundations laid by Oilshield to develop “Tankershield”, a brand-new insurance scheme for businesses operating bulk liquid tankers, watch this space...
In 2022 the Compass team have challenged themselves and further developed their technical skills and capabilities with Matt Thomas achieving GradIOSH status and Harry Ower obtaining his commercial drone pilot licence and Associate membership of IEMA.
Tom Ower has promoted our capabilities and services through the production of high quality marketing materials and social media content. Having this in-house capability has been enabled us to be nimble and responsive, the dynamic nature of our business keeps him very busy indeed. We are approaching 1500 followers on LinkedIn.
Helen has prudently and cheerfully steered our financial course to yet another record year for profitable growth, thank you.
As Chairman of the International Spill Accreditation Scheme, working with the Board, we have successfully overhauled, merged, expanded and relaunched the ISAS accreditation scheme and associated website. The membership is growing, regulators have re-engaged, endorsed the scheme and commercial opportunities are presenting themselves to ISAS accredited operations. We have ourselves become ISAS accredited Spill Managers and Consultants.
Our commercial spill responder training programme has been rebranded as part of a joint venture with Darcy Spillcare. The success has been tremendous, we trained well over 1000 delegates last year at their own premises or at one of our specialist training facilities and have bookings well into 2023.
We have very recently launched our HSE Solutions package, providing commercial and technical support to HSE professionals in industry.
We have become an approved Driver CPC training centre and will be offering training to our Oilshield clients in 2023.
Just before Christmas we obtained Constructionline (Gold) accreditation, a fantastic achievement and recognition of the high standards of operation within the business. The accreditation will help unlock some more of the commercial project opportunities we have been exploring.
It has been hard work, lots of early mornings and travelling around to all corners of the UK, but we have met some lovely people who have been very pleased with our services. Each day I have the privilege of working with family and close colleagues. So, when I take a moment to reflect on what we have achieved, in these difficult economic times, I am delighted, impressed and very proud. When I look forward from this point, I am energised and excited by the tremendous opportunities which lie ahead.
Thank you to my family, colleagues, customers, strategic partners and friends of the business, here’s to a fantastic 2023 for all of us!
