Critical Risk. Clear Control. Peace of Mind.
Are your critical risks really under control?
How do you know?
BETTERISE helps industrial leaders make critical exposures visible, verify that barriers hold in the field, and act with the right level of expertise — before the serious event.
30 years of international EHS leadership · Novartis · Kenvue · LafargeHolcim · SILLING
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Compliance does not prove control.
Serious events rarely happen where indicators say they will. Three questions we ask every leadership team:
01
Can your leadership team name your top 10 critical risks?
And say who owns each one, which barriers hold them, and when they were last verified.
02
Are your critical controls verified, or only documented?
A procedure is not a critical control. Drift starts when nobody is looking.
03
What does your dashboard say about weak signals?
Potentially serious events (pSIF) are the chance to learn before the accident. Can you see them?
Our solutions
Four answers, depending on what you need
See, steer, act, decide: each solution answers an executive question.
KNOW & TRANSFORM
BRPI36M
Make critical exposures visible and build a measurable transformation over 36 months.
CONTROL & MONITOR
CAIRN
Turn your EHS data into a cockpit for decisions and verification.
ACT & GET HELP
MITIG8
Reach the right level of expertise, at the moment the decision is made.
ADVISE
Executive Advisory
Help CEOs, COOs and EHS leaders arbitrate, govern and transform — including as interim leader.
Major event
Serious accident, industrial incident, crisis: the first hours decide everything.
BETTERISE builds and mobilises a turnkey crisis or investigation team, and prepares your people before the event happens.
Who we work with
30 people or 30,000: critical risks ignore company size
Industrial SMEs
30 to 250 people, few in-house EHS resources, a highly exposed owner: you need sharp expertise, at the right time, without heavy structure.
Multi-site mid-caps
Uneven maturity, fragmented tools, exposures hard to compare from one site to the next: you need a consolidated view and reliable controls.
Global groups
Complexity, data volume, pSIF and critical-control governance to standardise: you need a direct line of sight from the field to the executive committee.
How we work
From assessment to demonstrable control
01
Peace of Mind Assessment
10 online questions and a 30-minute debrief to position your level of control.
02
Baseline review
BRPI baseline or Executive Review: map of critical exposures and controls.
03
Action plan
A prioritised roadmap: BRPI36M, CAIRN, MITIG8 or Advisory depending on your issues.
04
Verification over time
Regular leadership reviews, field evidence and adjustments.
Founder’s track record
Results achieved in the field, not in the meeting room
3
pharmaceutical greenfield sites delivered with zero incidents (Novartis AAA, $240M budget)
55
plants supported with an LTIFR below 1 (LafargeHolcim)
50
sites engaged in a post-merger cultural transformation
+20 %
field managerial engagement with “Boots on the Ground” (Kenvue)
Expertise
Hands-on industrial expertise
Insights
Hard questions, answered plainly
- pSIF: learning before the serious event
Potentially serious events are the most valuable information for preventing fatalities. How to make the most of them. - Serious accident: what your crisis team must do in the first hour
Protect, alert, log, preserve, communicate: the reflexes that make the difference when the event happens. - Compliance is not control: 5 questions every leader should ask about critical risks
Passed audits do not prove your barriers hold. Five simple questions to find out whether your critical risks are really under control.
Start with one simple question: how do you know?
10 questions, 5 minutes, and a personal 30-minute debrief with an expert. Free, no commitment.