nir-vana innovation network

This North East based company’s projects and initiatives are derived from a blend immense experience and customer demand, in what is a very complicated and often mismanaged subject. They have extensive experience across most sectors including, renewable energy, the maritime industry, heavy engineering, logistics and distribution, aviation, construction, manufacturing and the food and drink industry where their substance and alcohol misuse package of support is essential for businesses in these sectors to work to their most efficient capacity.

The company focuses on the management, training, investigation and testing of workplace substance and alcohol misuse issues and its correlation to criminality and corporate governance aiming to protect the business, employer and employees with legally defensible policies and total all round support from their in-house experts. This includes their Commercial Investigations service which helps businesses mitigate risk and reduce costs across all areas including substance and alcohol misuse.

The company services provide legally enforceable and defensible solutions to any business.
They operate across all sectors with an established Maritime and Aviation package which includes:
• The Substance and Alcohol Misuse Policy (SAMP)
• The Programme of Testing (POT), which includes Narrow Window Testing (Saliva and Urine) and Wide Window Testing (Hair and Nail Clippings) giving clients a higher degree of certainty in managing issues.
• The linked Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) that allows a business to best manage issues which arise with full standard operating procedures for all testing which is backed up by the companies support to help clients come to good business decisions.
• Substance Misuse Management Programme (SMMP) is a suite of courses designed especially for maritime with protocols for recruitment, crew, ships officers and ship superintendents.

In addition, the company have developed their own innovative, evidential testing kits and evidence forms that are bespoke to the market. They are partnered with 2UKAS accredited laboratories which have the best turn-around times in the UK.

The company have developed an online staff questionnaire business culture map allowing business to discover the facts about what they do well and where they need to improve to help better target development budget spend. This is very much employer, employee focused. The company offers support in assessing results and creating policies around them to secure employee buy-in.

The company realises the impact of substance and alcohol misuse in society is no different to the impact it has in the workplace and believes there is a greater need for it to be managed better and more efficiently in the workplace due to the culpability of its officers across a wide variety of civil and criminal legislations, statutory requirements and duties required in the formal decision-making process, the failure of which can effect businesses financially.

Today more and more insurance countermeasures and mitigations are required by businesses and their stakeholders, who are required to have processes to make those formal decisions, providing policies, procedures and systems to manage the day-to-day business of the company within a company / corporate governance mechanism.

Insurance companies in these sectors are retaining the company to provide services to their clients as well.

The company seeks to expand across Europe and in America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Singapore via an Outsourcing Agreement. Other agreements may be considered during negotiation phase between potential partners.

Advantages & innovations

By offering the full range of Workplace Substance Misuse Services with best laboratory testing and support the company delivers solutions to businesses that are cost saving, and risk mitigating providing businesses with the service of tapping into their world leading expertise. They are retained by Insurance companies to deliver services to their clients, across all sectors. This provides the company with excellent knowledge and insights into the sectors mentioned and their specific requirements when managing this very complex issue. Other advantages include: • An in-house toxicology team provides qualified and efficient services to their clients, without the need for them to source expensive outside assistance. • A maritime collaboration which delivers these same services on shore, near shore and off shore where they have developed their own innovative sea chests and compliant testing and training logs. • Their innovative education programmes from school programmes to Masters degree level are unique in the market enabling their clients to gain their own competitive edge. • The Corporate Investigation Services they provide are delivered with years of global experience covering a huge range of issues facing companies.

Stage of development

Already on the market

Partner sought

The company is looking to provide services for any type of business that sees the issues of workplace substance and alcohol misuse as a serious risk to their business and wish to mitigate this risk with a high-quality solutions delivery partner. An Outsourcing Agreement is initially sought however other agreements may be considered during negotiation phase.