Our History: At Your Service Since 2000

Our heritage is steeped in health and safety expertise. We combine this knowledge with best-in-class technology to help Risk Management Leaders, both nationally and overseas, achieve their health and safety goals and engage their people in developing their safety culture.

Riskex Timeline

1990

Original company, trading as Safe & Sound founded by Mark Delo (CEO), offering a range of health and safety consultancy and training services

2000

James Sharp (CTO) joins the business and the first edition of AssessNET launches

2002

Safe & Sound becomes an approved NEBOSH and IOSH Training Provider

2004

Riskex Ltd founded as a separate operating company, as a platform for expanding the company portfolio into the tech space and opens a new HQ at Bletchley Park

2005

The AssessNET system reaches quarter of a million users

2006-2009

Period of rapid portfolio growth – A further 9 AssessNET modules developed and released

2010

Catherine Rumbelow (COO) joins the business

2012

AssessNET is approved for the Government Procurement Service G-Cloud (on its debut launch), for Software as a Service (SaaS)

2014

Riskex achieves certification to the world’s most popular Quality standard, ISO 9001

2015

Riskex further demonstrates its commitment to best-in class operating practices by achieving certifications to OHSAS 18001 (Health and Safety) and ISO 27001 (information Security)

2016

Riskex wins awards for both Online Health & Safety Management Solutions and Innovative Health & Safety Management System at the CV Magazine technology innovations awards 2016

2017

Riskex launches its first Mobile App platform


Riskex builds upon its robust information security protocols by achieving certification to Cyber Essentials


AssessNET redeveloped on a .net platform, providing increased functionality (phase 1)

2018

Riskex continues to expand and relocates to its new HQ in Milton Keynes

2019

AssessNET Multi-lingual capability launches

2020

New Covid health monitoring and tracing solution, Safe2Day launches

Riskex becomes a Crown Commercial Service supplier

Riskex announces new BI feature to underpin our Management Information capability

Riskex shortlisted for Innovation and wins Award for Health and Safety at the regional Make UK Manufacturing Awards 2020

2021

Riskex strengthens its Contractor Governance portfolio with a new release of its Permit to Work module

Riskex appoints Nikki Samme as Managing Director

2022

Riskex adds RAMS functionality to AssessNET

Riskex become an approved supplier of G-Cloud 13.

2023

Major investment to upgrade to the AssessNET platform using .NET technologies as well as the launch of personalised home pages and branding capabilities.

New modules were added to make AssessNET a truly enterprise-wide Health and Safety Management System containing 17 modules

2024

Riskex launches it new Mobile App Platform for “mobile First” User Experience.  By the end of the year new AI features will be launched to further automate health and safety processes… watch this space!

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