Beyond the SafeRec Certification

Over the past several months, SafeRec has experienced one of the most unusual periods since our certification was created. The story takes us from a wave of umbrella acquisitions and questions around payroll and ownership, through an extensive undercover investigation, to additional controls, significant pressure and threats against our team, and ultimately circumstances that led SafeRec to contact the police.

It has been one of the most challenging periods we have experienced since creating SafeRec, but also one of the most important.

When we built SafeRec, we knew that operating a robust certification and real-time audit framework would sometimes require us to ask difficult questions and make difficult decisions. What we perhaps did not anticipate was the level of pressure that could follow when those questions challenged the interests of certain operators, or how strongly some businesses would resist additional controls and verification we considered necessary.