Environmental Monitoring Services

Our specialists are on hand to provide guidance and monitoring solutions to help companies manage their environmental risks.

Our team of environmental specialists brings extensive experience, and our capabilities span a wide range of environmental monitoring and consultancy services.

We address all aspects of environmental management, including noise assessments, air sampling, and other key service areas

A tightening regulatory landscape

Environmental compliance is becoming more demanding, not less. Tightening regulations, growing scrutiny from regulators and clients alike, and the increasing importance of demonstrable environmental performance mean that businesses can no longer afford to treat their environmental obligations as an afterthought.

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50 years of hands-on experience

Our environmental team brings over 50 years of hands-on experience helping organisations across manufacturing, engineering, and other industrial sectors understand exactly where they stand (legally, operationally, and reputationally) and what they need to do about it. We give you clear, jargon-free advice and robust monitoring programmes, so you can demonstrate compliance with confidence rather than cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Environmental liability insurance can only be as strong as the evidence behind it

Environmental incidents can create significant liabilities for both regulators and third parties. The quality of your monitoring data, permit compliance records and documented response to identified issues all may influence how insurers assess your risk and how claims are managed.

Your CRM environmental monitoring programme can provide the evidence your CIM broker needs to present your environmental risk profile accurately to underwriters. UKAS-accredited monitoring results, well-maintained compliance records and documented remediation work demonstrate responsible environmental management and can strengthen your position at renewal.

If an environmental claim arises, your CRM consultants can assist with technical investigations, attend loss assessor meetings can help prepare the evidence needed to support your claim. Their expertise may help to ensure the technical aspects of your case are clearly represented.

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Take control of your compliance

Whether you’re responding to a regulatory requirement, preparing for an audit, or simply trying to understand your environmental baseline, we’ll give you the data and the expert interpretation you need to take control.

Our services include:

Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Surveys

Under COSHH, employers are legally required to ensure that LEV systems are thoroughly examined and tested at least every 14 months. That's not a recommendation. It's a statutory requirement, and failure to comply leaves you exposed to enforcement action, improvement notices, and in the event of an employee developing an occupational disease, the kind of civil liability that no business wants to face.

But compliance with the 14-month requirement is only the starting point. A thorough examination isn't just about confirming that the system is present and running. It's about establishing whether the system is actually doing what it was designed to do, whether capture velocities are adequate, whether there has been any deterioration in performance, and whether the controls are sufficient to protect the people working with and around the system.

Our team carries out statutory LEV examinations and tests across a wide range of systems and industrial processes, producing the detailed written reports that your enforcing authority expects to see. Where we find deficiencies, we give you a clear explanation of what the problem is, what the consequence of leaving it unaddressed would be, and what needs to happen to put it right.

Workplace Exposure Monitoring

Your legal obligation under COSHH isn't simply to put controls in place. It's to know whether those controls are actually working. Workplace exposure monitoring is the mechanism by which you establish whether your workers are being exposed to hazardous substances (dusts, aerosols, gases, vapours, noise, and vibration) at levels that could harm their health, even with controls in place.

We carry out personal and static monitoring across a full range of exposure types, and all sample analysis is carried out by UKAS accredited laboratories. That accreditation matters: it means your results are independently verified to an internationally recognised standard, which is what your regulator expects and what your occupational health provider needs to make meaningful health surveillance decisions. We interpret the findings against the relevant Workplace Exposure Limits and give you clear, practical recommendations where the results show that your control measures need to be improved, reviewed, or supplemented.

If you're not currently monitoring, we'll help you understand which substances and processes in your workplace present the greatest risk and where to start.

Emissions to Atmosphere Monitoring

If your site has permit conditions or regulatory requirements governing atmospheric emissions, you need monitoring data that is robust, defensible, and produced to the standard your regulator expects. Data that doesn't meet that standard isn't just useless. It can actively create problems, casting doubt on your compliance position and putting your environmental permit at risk.

Our emissions monitoring is carried out using Environment Agency approved methodology by MCERTS qualified personnel, giving you results that are technically sound and produced in the format the Environment Agency requires. We carry out stack emissions monitoring and source testing across a range of industrial processes, and where sample ports need to be installed or upgraded to meet current standards we can manage that as part of the same programme of work.

Dispersion Modelling

Understanding whether your atmospheric emissions are causing or are capable of causing an unacceptable impact on the surrounding area is increasingly central to both permit applications and ongoing compliance management. Regulators and planning authorities want to see evidence, not assurances.

Our dispersion modelling is carried out entirely in-house by our own qualified environmental consultants. That means you're not waiting for a subcontractor, you're not paying a third-party margin, and the person who produces your model is the same person who can explain it, defend it to a regulator, and integrate it into any broader environmental assessment work you need. We carry out D1 stack height calculations and H1 impact assessments, and we can support both new permit applications and reviews of existing permitted operations where conditions or activities have changed.

Phase I and Phase II Land Quality Surveys

Land contamination is a risk that can quietly derail a development, a sale, or a change of use if it isn't properly investigated and understood before the transaction or planning process is too far advanced. The costs of discovering contamination late are almost always significantly higher than the cost of proper due diligence at the right stage.

Our Phase I surveys involve a thorough desk-based study and site walkover to identify potential sources of contamination from historical land use and to assess the plausibility of pollution linkages between those sources and any receptors. Where Phase I findings indicate that further investigation is warranted, we move to Phase II intrusive investigation, involving targeted trial pitting or boreholes, soil and groundwater sampling, and laboratory analysis to characterise the nature and extent of any contamination present.

We produce technically robust, clearly written reports that satisfy the requirements of local planning authorities, lenders, and the Environment Agency, and we'll advise you on what the results mean for your site and what, if anything, needs to happen next.

Why Clear Risk Management?

At Clear Risk Management, we believe that proper risk management means getting the detail right, every time. Here's what that looks like in practice.

Qualified at every level

Our consultants are professionally qualified specialists in their fields, with accreditations including CMIOSH, CIPD, MCERTS, BAFE SP205 and NAFDI. Whatever the discipline, you'll receive practical advice from experienced professionals with the credentials to back it up.

The right answer, not the textbook answer

No two businesses face the same risks. We take the time to understand your organisation and provide practical, proportionate advice that reflects your circumstances, not a one-size-fits-all approach.

Everything delivered in-house

Every service is delivered by our own qualified consultants. We never subcontract your work or pass you between providers, giving you consistent advice, clear accountability and a team that knows your business from day one.