ERM, the world’s largest sustainability consultancy, has been recognized by independent analyst firm Verdantix for its market-leading health and safety consulting capabilities, earning the highest possible scores across seven critical service areas in the firm’s latest assessment of leading H&S providers.

The Verdantix Smart Innovators: Health and Safety Consulting Providers 2026 report assessed nine prominent providers across eight capabilities and delivery differentiators, including technical expertise, structured methodologies, measurable outcomes and digitally enabled approaches. The report highlights how organizations are increasingly seeking consulting partners that can strengthen proactive risk management and improve safety performance across the enterprise.

Verdantix awarded ERM the highest possible scores across seven key capabilities: health and safety strategy; safety culture and leadership; audits, inspections and assurance; occupational health and industrial hygiene; process safety; construction and contractor safety; and safety training. ERM was also recognized for its strong capabilities in incident investigation.

Access the full Verdantix Smart Innovators: Health and Safety Consulting Providers 2026 report here. 

As organizations increasingly connect safety performance with operational resilience, workforce productivity and business continuity, demand is growing for integrated, technology-enabled approaches to risk management.

April Choy, Industry Analyst at Verdantix said: “More advanced offerings extend to multi-year and multi-site transformation, measurable performance improvement, and integration with wider operational risk and resilience. ERM provides an example of this broader capability, combining specialist expertise through global centres of excellence across multiple EHS domains with digital capabilities such as AI-enabled risk identification, connected worker technologies and predictive analytics.”

Ramesh Narasimhan, Global Service Leader, Safe & Sustainable Operations at ERM said: “Health and safety is no longer a standalone function. In a world shaped by geopolitical uncertainty, workforce change, AI and the energy transition, it has become a critical driver of operational resilience and business performance.

“We are proud to see Verdantix recognize the breadth and depth of our capabilities. By combining specialist expertise, operational experience and AI-enabled technologies, we help organizations anticipate risk, strengthen performance and create safer, more resilient operations at scale. I particularly want to recognize and thank the hundreds of health and safety professionals across ERM who have dedicated their careers to this field. This recognition is a testament to their expertise, commitment and the impact they deliver for our clients every day.”

This recognition reflects ERM’s continued investment in helping organizations move beyond compliance, embedding health and safety as a strategic enabler of operational excellence, workforce wellbeing and long-term business resilience.

About ERM 

Sustainability is our business.

As the world’s largest sustainability consultancy, ERM combines integrated expertise and implementation capabilities, powered by AI and technology, to help clients turn sustainability into measurable business value.

With more than 50 years of experience, ERM’s diverse team of 8000+ experts in 40 countries and territories helps clients create innovative solutions to their sustainability challenges, unlocking commercial opportunities that meet the needs of today while preserving opportunity for future generations. Learn more here.

About Verdantix 

Verdantix is a trusted intelligence provider for software and services markets. Through its AI-enabled Voyager platform, Verdantix delivers insights and analysis that constitute the most granular intelligence available across the marketplaces it serves. This allows the firm to make highly accurate far-reaching forecasts and big-picture predictions.

With more than 3,000 subscribing organizations relying on Verdantix intelligence to make technology and market decisions, Verdantix’s work has a major influence on decision-making across Climate and Energy, EHS and Quality, Facilities and Real Estate, Industrial Transformation, Sustainability and Risk functions worldwide. verdantix.com