1 in 3
People experience
misconduct at work
60%
Of workplace concerns
go under-reported
90%+
Of people don't trust
the existing reporting
process
How we got here
Safe Workplace began as a research project with a single question: "How can technology improve the safeguarding of people in the workplace?" What we found and what we experienced personally made it impossible to look away.
The data was stark. 1 in 3 people experience misconduct at work. 60% of concerns go unreported. Over 90% don't trust the reporting process. But it wasn't just research. People close to us were living it — experiencing bullying, discrimination, toxic management. We watched their confidence crumble. We saw the human cost first-hand.
The pattern was always the same: the warning signs were there. But organisations were only ever reacting — documenting problems after they'd exploded. We couldn't accept that.
We set out to build something different: a platform that encouraged early reporting, enabled faster responses, and gave leaders the intelligence to act before situations escalated. As Amazon put it when we deployed with them if you can enable people to act within the "Golden Hour," you can dramatically reduce the human and operational cost of bad situations.
After 12 months, early-stage reporting had tripled. Psychological safety measurably improved. Legal and compliance teams reported reduced liability and cleaner documentation trails. The approach worked.
Armed with those outcomes, we expanded Booking.com, Roche, Thiess, and others across logistics, mining, pharmaceuticals, and professional services. Across every sector, the same truth held: most organisations want to do the right thing. They're just overwhelmed by how.
We then turned our attention to healthcare and medical because healthcare leaders understood our thesis. In high-stakes clinical environments, a culture of compliance doesn't just protect performance it protects people. We brought a decade of enterprise governance experience into the most demanding regulatory environment we could find, and built the infrastructure to match it.
The founding question
Research into workplace safeguarding
A third-sector research project into how technology could change reporting culture and workplace safeguarding — driven by data and by personal experience of what poor governance does to people.
Enterprise validation
The Golden Hour
Deployed at Amazon scale, proving that early detection and faster response could fundamentally change people outcomes. 3x increase in early-stage reporting within 12 months.
Global enterprise
Booking.com, Roche, Thiess and beyond
Expanded into global logistics, pharmaceuticals, and mining — proving the platform across radically different regulatory environments, geographies, and workforce profiles.
Healthcare by conviction
Bringing enterprise rigour to regulated care
We chose healthcare because it demanded the most rigorous version of what we'd built. CQC, HIQA, EU MDR, DTAC. We brought enterprise-grade governance infrastructure into the highest-stakes compliance environment in the world.
Now
Backed and building the category
Backed by Fuel Ventures, Concept Ventures, FSE Group, and H2 Ventures — scaling the Quality, Risk and Compliance operating system for regulated organisations worldwide.
Trusted by
Amazon
Booking.com
Thiess
Roche
Seafrigo
MKS
Cabinet Office
What we believe
01
Compliance is a catalyst, not a constraint
We see compliance not as an obligation but as an enabler for strategic growth, safety, quality, and trust. Our aim is not to add more rules — it's to remove friction, increase confidence, and make the right thing to do the easiest thing to do.
02
Early detection solves real problems
High incident reporting rates seem counterintuitive, but they're a sign of trust. They prove people feel safe raising concerns, that teams are aware of what's going wrong, and that leaders can act quickly. That's what builds resilient organisations. Most solutions are reactive. We're not.
03
Compliance culture beats
compliance theatre
In a truly thriving organisation, compliance isn't a paper exercise, it's a shared commitment that aligns behaviour with values. These principles aren't imposed, they're co-created, emerging from trust, transparency, accountability, and mutual respect. We build for that culture.
The platform
Risk, compliance, and employee relations, brought together in an ecosystem where every module feeds every other. No more siloed tools. No more manual evidence gathering.
01
Risk & Compliance
Map every regulatory obligation across every jurisdiction you operate in. Evidence builds automatically from your policies, training records, and incident data. Walk into any inspection already prepared.
Regulatory framework mapping
Real-time evidence coverage
Inspection pack generation
Regulation change alerts
Multi-site, multi-framework
02
Employee Relations
Manage every case — conduct, grievance, investigation, TUPE, redundancy — with full audit trails, consistent outcomes, and the pattern intelligence to see what's coming before it arrives.
Regulatory framework mapping
Real-time evidence coverage
Inspection pack generation
Regulation change alerts
Multi-site, multi-framework
03
Risk Intelligence
Surface what matters before it escalates. Incident patterns, emerging risks, policy gaps, and workforce hotspots — connected into a single operational risk picture for leadership and boards.
Regulatory framework mapping
Real-time evidence coverage
Inspection pack generation
Regulation change alerts
Multi-site, multi-framework
Everything is connected. A policy update automatically re-maps compliance evidence. A closed ER case feeds risk intelligence. A training completion evidences a regulatory requirement. This is what a genuinely integrated governance platform looks like.
Executive Team
Our team spans enterprise technology, regulated healthcare, employment law, and institutional finance.
Romano Rabie
CEO | Co-Founder
A serial startup operator, Romano co-founded Safe Workplace on the conviction that workplace ethics and employee relations lack connected, intelligent systems to operationalise them. He led the early proof-of-concept and product build, having previously helped scale Mr Messaging from employee #4 to its €40M acquisition by Route Mobile.
Luke Aikman
Chairman | Founder
A serial entrepreneur with two exits behind him, Luke founded Safe Workplace and chairs the board. His previous venture Nudge led the UK Cabinet Office's discovery work in workplace conduct, and he continues to advise global Pharma organisations including Roche and Novartis on strategy and innovation.
Anna Staevska
Board Member
Anna brings rich operational and growth expertise at board level for startups and scale-ups across a diverse portfolio of businesses, where she sits as a board member. Her network across UK healthcare and regulated spaces enables Safe Workplace to approach new markets with consideration and deploy resources effectively.
Robert Wallace
Senior Healthcare Partner
A qualified dentist with two decades of clinical and management experience across UK and Irish healthcare, Robert has overseen GRC implementation since 2005, from founding multi-site dental clinics to advising healthcare SaaS providers on regulated market needs. He ensures Safe Workplace reflects how regulated care actually operates on the ground.
David Greenhalgh
Employment Law Advisor
Top-ranked as a Leading Individual in the Legal 500 2025, David brings 35+ years of employment law expertise advising senior executives, employers, and employees. Known for unstuffy, commercially focused tactical advice that grounds Safe Workplace's ER frameworks in how employment law actually works in practice.
David Shirra
Healthcare Partner
David brings deep operational and commercial expertise across the UK regulated healthcare landscape from NHS Trusts and PMI providers to PE-backed clinic groups. As former Commercial Director at Transform Hospital Group, David led the turnaround to £47.8m revenue while every site maintained or achieved CQC 'Good' or 'Outstanding'.
John Picken
Employee Relations & Healthcare Partner
Brings 30+ years advising executive boards, HR directors, and government task forces on workplace health, risk, and employee relations, including contributing to the landmark Thriving at Work review. A law graduate and Chartered Insurance Institute Associate, John has built corporate health propositions for clients including Siemens, BNY Mellon, and Nuffield Health.
Backed by
Fuel Ventures
Venture Capital
Concept Ventures
Venture Capital
FSE Group
Growth Investor
H2 Ventures
Fintech & RegTech VC
Trusted by regulated organisations worldwide
Healthcare & Care
Enterprise Technology
Mining & Resources
Logistics & Supply Chain
Pharmaceutical
Digital Health
Public Sector
Professional Services
