Health and Safety

At Collen, Health & Safety is more than a compliance requirement, it is a core value and a strategic enabler of project success.

Through proactive leadership, continuous improvement, and a deeply embedded safety culture, we ensure that everyone who works with Collen returns home safely and with a sense of pride in their contribution.

Project success depends on strong safety leadership. At Collen, our project leaders are empowered to champion safety from the top down. Our Health & Safety Department provides the training, tools, and ongoing support needed to implement high standards consistently across all our projects.

We employ an expansive team of experienced Health & Safety professionals operating across Ireland, the UK, and mainland Europe. Our Health and Safety professionals provide specialist support and leadership to our project teams, ensuring best in class safe delivery of all our projects. This includes guiding risk assessments, pre-planning safety strategies, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving behavioural safety engagement. Our Health & Safety team works closely with site management, subcontractors, and client stakeholders to create collaborative, high-performing environments where safety is seen as a shared responsibility.

Collen’s ISO 45001-certified Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) is the foundation of our approach. Built on international best practices and strengthened by our Leading Indicator Initiatives. The system focuses on proactive risk identification, early intervention, and continuous improvement. These measures not only prevent incidents but also help maintain smooth, efficient project delivery, reducing downtime, enhancing quality, and building client confidence.

Our Creating Safer Sites programme continues to redefine our safety culture. Designed to embed behavioural change and leadership ownership, it aligns all levels of the business around a shared goal: to ensure that every person on every Collen site contributes to a safe, healthy, and positive working environment.

This integrated approach brings clear benefits: improved programme certainty, reduced risk, better team morale, and strengthened trust between all project stakeholders. For our clients, it means predictable, professional delivery. For our people and partners, it means a culture of care, respect, and accountability, where safety is personal, not just procedural.

Through collaboration, innovation, and our unwavering commitment, our approach to the safe delivery of projects delivers more than compliance, it delivers confidence, predictable performance, and peace of mind for everyone working on our projects.