The consumer champion for UK businesses buying workplace compliance.

Compliance Buyer is a consumer champion magazine for UK businesses buying workplace compliance. It is independent and free to read. Nobody pays to appear in it.

Workplace compliance is the work the law expects of anyone who employs people or runs premises. It covers health and safety and fire safety. It covers electrical testing and gas safety. It covers water hygiene and asbestos. Most of it is bought from suppliers. That is where we come in.

It is written for the person who pays the bill. That person is usually running a café or a shop or a workshop. They did not go into business to learn fire law. They need to know what applies to them and what it should cost. They need to know what they can do themselves. And they need to know what they are about to be sold that they do not need.

Everyone else with a public voice in this market sells compliance. The advice they give is honest. It also leans one way. A consumer champion sits on the other side of the table. That is where this magazine sits.

The editor

I am David Smith, the compliance buyer’s consumer champion. I am one of the UK’s leading consumer champions for businesses buying workplace compliance. I want every business owner to know they can check here before they sign.

I have 19 years of compliance experience and I have sat in every seat. I have bought it as the person responsible for a building. I have sold it. I have run the operations that deliver it. I have owned businesses that had to comply. I hold Institution of Occupational Safety and Health qualifications among others. I know what a quote looks like from both ends.

A conflict of interest, stated plainly

I also founded RiskSorted. It is a separate business that delivers compliance services to high street businesses. I also do fractional senior leadership for several compliance firms. That means I work part time at a senior level inside other compliance businesses. You should know both before you read anything here about suppliers.

The magazine does not prefer any of them. The assistant does not refer readers to them. I will never review a firm I work for. If one of them is ever reviewed here someone else will write the review. The full rules are on the standards page.

This is not a sales funnel

Let me be completely clear. Compliance Buyer is not a sales funnel for RiskSorted. It is not a sales funnel for any of the compliance firms I work with as a fractional leader either. We have gone out of our way to make sure of that.

There is no way to book any work on this website. There is no quote form and no booking calendar. The assistant will not recommend a supplier. It does not pass on anything you type. Nobody pays to appear here.

This site exists to bring experts to you. They give you free advice so you can make your own decisions. It is a free tool and nothing more.

If you ever want to work with any of us we would love to. That includes RiskSorted and the other businesses we are involved in. But you will have to leave this site and find them yourself. Nothing here will send you there.

What you get, for nothing

Every guide with its sources linked and dated. A plan for your kind of business with typical costs. Tools that give you a number rather than a sales call. An assistant that answers your question without asking for your email first. A fortnightly letter with one rule explained and one thing you can use. Nobody pays to appear here. Nobody pays to be reviewed. Nobody pays to be recommended.

How to hold us to it

Every article has a reply box at the bottom. Use it to tell us what you think. We read every reply before it goes live and we publish the fair ones. If a fact is wrong we correct it on the page with the date. You can also write to editor@compliancebuyer.com.

Write for us

Compliance Buyer is open to other experts. Fire engineers and electricians and safety consultants and buyers all have something to teach a business owner. If that is you then write for us. Every writer gets the same rules and a short About the writer box.