India’s EHS consulting industry is booming, mirroring global trends of increased corporate emphasis on EHS and sustainability, along with governmental push towards the adoption of sustainable practices to promote environmental causes. Government-driven plans for the attainment of net-zero emissions, decarbonization pathways, and tightening compliance regulations are key factors propelling the sector’s growth within the country. As India’s focus shifts increasingly towards the achievement of these goals, the demand for expert EHS consulting solutions is expected to continue rising, with a demand for ongoing advancement of the sector.
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Nevertheless, customers seeking these solutions often face challenges pertaining to the implementation and enforcement of solutions. Lack of awareness among businesses, along with the restricted availability of reliable data points, and the evolving landscape of regulatory affairs, pose further complexities which need to be addressed. Committed to bridging industry gaps and addressing challenges faced by clients is ES Safeguards, a Gurugram-based ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 certified professionally managed EHS consulting firm. A dynamic organization armed with agile and forward-thinking professionals, ES Safeguards has positioned itself as an industry pioneer, churning out innovative solutions to promote sustainability in business.
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Multifaceted Specializations
ES Safeguards, composed of a team of young technocrats and managers, specializes in diverse verticals within this sector, encompassing environmental, social, health, and safety planning, governance, sustainable development, and management of environmental and energy resources, within developing countries. Leveraging this core consulting experience in developing nations that the team possesses, the firm stands at the helm of revolutionizing the industry, heralding a new era of growth and development.
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Specializing in such diverse verticals, the company offers specialized consulting services to key multilateral and bilateral development agencies including global organizations like ADB, AIIB, World Bank, IFC, DFID, NDB, EIB, KfW, NZAID, IFC, the UN agencies and regional agencies in the Asia and Pacific. ES Safeguards extends its services to a range of private and public sector organizations as well.
The core team, consisting of engineers, scientists, and managers, brings in exceptional experience in fields of environment, social development, poverty and gender, ecology and biodiversity, climate change and disaster risks, sustainability, governance, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation.
This full-spectrum specialization puts ES Safeguards in a favorable position as a one-stop solutions provider, taking a holistic approach towards devising strategies tailored to meet the unique needs of its diverse clientele.
“At ES Safeguards, we are driven by our mission to ensure planning and compliance with environmental, health, safety, and social safeguards in the process of sustainable development by providing technical and project management services of the highest professional standards. For the attainment of these goals, our strategy is to provide services tailored to meet the specific needs and requirements of our clients, by coordinating closely with them and our partners in the countries we are operational”, shares Sunil K. Choukiker, Founder and Director, ES Safeguards.
In addition to this, the company also leverages support and resources from its in-house experts, professional networks, and partnerships with educational, economic, and social research organizations, public sector organizations, other consulting firms, non-government organizations, and individual consultants. The combined expertise of these resources and channels enabled the firm to offer ground-breaking consulting solutions.
Future Ready Approach
Renowned as a forward-thinking team of change makers, ES Safeguards stands out in this industry for staying ahead of industry reforms and emerging trends. The company continually strives to prepare for potential reforms within the industry through strategic and proactive measures. Beyond this, ES Safeguards is also currently actively involved in new projects and initiatives with its bilateral and multilateral development partners within the Asia Pacific region. Over the years, the company has successfully gained diverse experience by completing over 100 assignments focused on environmental, health, safety, social, climate resilience, and sustainability in 20+ countries.
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Having a firm footing across the regions with strong relationships with key organizations as a trusted partner, ES Safeguards is engaged in initiatives that are projected to be concerned with a focus on ESH capacity building of state-owned enterprises and corporates. These initiatives will carve a route for ES Safeguards to present out-of-the-box solutions for driving organizational success through a series of optimal solutions.
“At ES Safeguards, our initiatives are characterized by three features: innovative thinking, practical recommendations, and smooth project management. Virtually all of our facilitated projects are implemented via participatory planning approaches. Our history of successful collaboration with local companies and civil societies has contributed in many ways to our reputation of excellence in project implementation and management”, further shares Sunil.
ES Safeguards has positioned itself as an industry pioneer, churning out innovative solutions to promote sustainability in business
Since its inception, ES Safeguards has excelled in the domain, growing from strength to strength, by adhering to its core principles, upon which the firm’s success rests. Despite being a young company, ES Safeguards has attained immense recognition because of its approach towards addressing client concerns. By adhering to its foundational philosophies, the firm has also stood out as a winner while competing with big multinational industry players boasting over 1000+ workforce, and expanded its clientele from Asia Pacific to Europe, exemplifying the kind of impact the firm has made in such a short duration.
Client-Centric Focus
Committed to driving positive change in the sector through high-quality bespoke consulting solutions that fulfill the unique requirements of its varied clients, ES Safeguards has established, documented, implemented, and maintained a robust quality management system. Leveraging this system, the firm ensures smooth and efficient working of the organizations, as it covers all functions and interactions, thereby guaranteeing optimal quality of services in compliance with the expectations and needs of the clients.
As a client-centric firm, the company goes beyond quality assurance and takes tremendous measures to ensure client satisfaction through well-defined procedures. “We have a well-defined procedure for ‘control of nonconforming products and services’ that includes tools like seeking continuous feedback from the client, documentation of client observation in standard formats, and checklists for monitoring the client’s feedback and corresponding preventive and corrective actions. This procedure defines the responsibilities and actions for handling service and product/service non-conformities. Through analysis of deviations from defined processes and plans, we determine problematic areas and define actions for improving our performance”, adds Sunil.
Armed with this information, the company determines services and products that will resolve potential risks in its ability to deliver high-class services and takes conscious efforts to mitigate these risks. The teams involved in specific projects are actively encouraged to identify challenges and offer innovative solutions, which further helps build the firm’s stock as an idea-friendly organization.
Future Roadmap
Enjoying a distinguished position in the sector, ES Safeguards has lofty goals for its future, and for that, the firm is working tirelessly. One of the key goals that the company has is to maintain its track record of delivering highest quality services optimally, while it pursues innovative technologies and tools like emerging technologies encompassing AI in identification and mitigation of potetial risks across its services.
The firm also plans to enhance its utilization of advanced modeling tools and platforms for the prediction of EHS risks, ensuring the designs it plans are appropriate for minimizing anticipated risks. Through these multidimensional measures, ES Safeguards envisions a future where it is shaping the landscape of the EHS consulting industry.
