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Occupational Health · Global Advisory

Every worker
comes home.

Global HSE Consulting helps organisations prevent occupational disease, strengthen compliance, and build practical health systems for mining, energy, construction, and industrial operations worldwide.

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Global Reach · Real-World Impact

Four lines of advisory work, rooted in field practice.

We work at the system and operational levels with ministries of health and labour, mining regulators, international organisations, trade unions, and corporations operating in the world's highest-risk environments. The deliverable is a functioning prevention system, not a report.
01 / Practice

Silica Risk & Occupational Disease Advisory

Exposure assessment, surveillance design and prevention frameworks for mining, construction, manufacturing, and engineered-stone fabrication.

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02 / Practice

National OSH System Design & Governance

Policy architecture, regulatory framework development, and tripartite consultation for governments building national occupational health systems.

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03 / Practice

High-Hazard Sector Consulting

Operational OSH management systems for mining, oil & gas, construction, and tunnelling. Embedded advisory, not external audit.

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04 / Practice

Workforce Health Research and Evidence to Evidence-Based Practice

Applied field epidemiology, surveillance design, and AI-enabled health screening – CIHR-funded silicosis & TB programme with UBC, UCT, SAMA.

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Services & Solutions

What we help organisations do.

Global HSE Consulting supports organisations that need practical occupational health systems, not generic compliance advice. Work is shaped around the risk, jurisdiction, workforce, and operating environment.
01

Assess and control silica exposure

Silica exposure assessment, control review, surveillance design, and prevention planning for mining, construction, manufacturing, and engineered-stone operations.

02

Build national OSH systems

Policy architecture, regulatory framework development, tripartite consultation, inspectorate capability, and national occupational health information systems.

03

Strengthen high-hazard operations

Operational OSH management systems for mining, energy, construction, tunnelling, contractors, and complex industrial workforces.

04

Design health surveillance systems

Medical surveillance, exposure data, worker health monitoring, reporting pathways, and disease-prevention infrastructure that can be used in the field.

05

Translate research into practice

Workplace health research, evidence briefs, AI-enabled screening pathways, and implementation support for institutions, ministries, and workforce bodies.

06

Build capability through training

Training and capability-building pathways through Global HSE Academy for teams, executives, regulators, and occupational health professionals.

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An estimated
230 million
Workers are exposed to silica dust worldwide. The knowledge to prevent occupational disease has existed for decades.
Source WHO / ILO Global Exposure Estimate
The Field

Where the work
has actually been.

From multinational mining operations to ministries, research institutions, industry associations, and international organisations.

Representative engagements across six continents.

Field Engagement
Active Mandate
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Sectors

Industries where occupational disease risk is highest.

Our advisory work is concentrated in the industries where the gap between occupational health knowledge and operational practice is widest – and where the human cost of that gap is most severe.
01 / Sector
Mining and minerals sector

Mining & Minerals

Gold, platinum, coal, and diamonds – silica exposure, TB comorbidity, and surveillance systems.

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02 / Sector
Construction and infrastructure sector

Construction & Infrastructure

Tunnelling, road and rail, urban development – silica, vibration, structural risk.

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03 / Sector
Oil, gas and energy sector

Oil, Gas & Energy

Upstream and downstream operations – hydrocarbon exposure, fatigue, contractor safety.

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04 / Sector
Manufacturing and heavy industry sector

Manufacturing & Heavy Industry

Foundries, fabrication, engineered stone – particulate, heat, chemical, ergonomic risk.

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Government and regulation sector

Government & Regulation

National OSH systems, labour ministries, regulatory framework design and capacity-building.

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International agencies sector

International Agencies

ILO, UNDP, UN Secretariat, Commonwealth, and CARICOM – expert advisory and roster work.

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A short history

Two thousand years of knowing.

Silicosis was described by Pliny the Elder in 50 AD, then by Agricola, Ramazzini, and every major occupational health authority of the twentieth century. It remains uneliminated in 2026.

c. 50 AD

"Disease of grinders."

Pliny the Elder describes lung disease in stonemasons. Naturalis Historia.

1556

Agricola

De Re Metallica documents miners' lung disease and shortened life-spans.

1700

Ramazzini

Founds occupational medicine – De Morbis Artificum Diatriba.

1833

UK Factories Act

First modern regulatory framing of industrial disease.

1930

Johannesburg Conference

First ILO international conference on silicosis. The scale is recognised.

1981

ILO C155

Occupational Safety and Health Convention adopted.

1990

The practice begins

Dr. Sultan's first occupational health engagement. Vancouver, Canada.

1995

Global Programme

ILO / WHO Joint Programme for elimination of silicosis by 2030.

2018

ISO 45001

First international OSH management system standard.

2020

DCCG Co-Convenor

Sultan appointed Co-Convenor of Developing Countries Coordination Group · ISO/TC 283.

2024

Engineered Stone Ban

Australia bans engineered stone after a new silicosis epidemic in young workers.

2025

SOM Award

Society of Occupational Medicine – Outstanding Contribution to Global OH.

2026 · today

You are here.

230 million workers are exposed to silica dust worldwide. The systems to prevent disease remain unbuilt in many jurisdictions.

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We work with organisations that treat occupational health as an operational imperative, not a compliance exercise: governments, international organisations, and corporations operating in high-hazard environments. Engagements begin with a 45-minute consultation.

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Professional Memberships

International Frameworks & Commitments

Global HSE Consulting aligns its work with internationally recognised sustainability, occupational health and governance frameworks that support healthier workplaces, safer industries and stronger institutions worldwide.

Selected Partners & Collaborators

Global HSE Consulting works with governments, international organisations, industry and research partners to strengthen occupational health systems and advance evidence-based workplace health initiatives worldwide.