Kirby Group Engineering scales Zero Harm across Europe, saves 38,000 hours, and transforms safety visibility with HSI Donesafe

“We used the HSI Donesafe platform to improve our Zero Harm programme. Our programme was built around interacting with people and focusing on key indicators, but we needed a way to make it easier for people to engage with it and deliver it consistently across all our projects. That is what HSI Donesafe has allowed us to do.”

As Kirby Group Engineering expanded across multiple countries and regulatory environments, maintaining consistency in safety execution, engagement, and reporting became increasingly complex. The organisation required a more consistent and scalable approach to:

• Standardising safety behaviours across projects and regions
• Improving real-time visibility of leading indicators
• Reducing time spent managing and chasing documentation
• Equipping frontline teams with tools that are simple and effective in the field

Central to this was the evolution of Kirby Group Engineering’s Zero Harm programme. The goal was clear: make safety easier to execute, easier to see, and easier to act on at every level of the organisation.

Kirby Group Engineering implemented its internally developed safety framework, KSafe on the HSI Donesafe EHS platform to operationalise its Zero Harm programme across all projects and regions. KSafe is around the organisation’s Zero Harm philosophy and focused on driving interaction, engagement, and consistent delivery of key safety activities across the business.

The HSI Donesafe solution was designed around how teams operate on site, making it mobile-first, intuitive, and easy to use. This reduced friction and made participation more natural for workers and supervisors in the field.

HSI Donesafe has delivered measurable operational efficiencies and a step change in safety performance. Kirby Group Engineering estimates that transitioning to a fully integrated digital platform has saved approximately 38,000 hours annually, driven by the elimination of paper-based processes, consolidation of systems, and a significant reduction in administrative effort.

At the same time, safety performance has continued to improve. Incident management has shifted to structured digital workflows with real-time tracking, significantly reducing reporting delays and improving data reliability.