Industry context

EHS and sustainability reporting in retail and e-commerce

We configure EHS platforms around the forms and workflows people use on site, so incidents, inspections and emissions data are recorded once and reported correctly.

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Most of the effort goes into the incident and action processes, environmental data collection and the reports leadership and regulators expect. Each site's inspections and permits are set up with the people who run it.

Retailers trade on thin margins, with peaks around Ramadan, Eid and White Friday and customers who move between app, website and store in a single purchase. Merchandising, store operations and digital teams each own part of that journey, so we plan changes around the trading calendar. Emissions reporting is shaped by the UAE climate law, Federal Decree-Law No. 11 of 2024, and in Saudi Arabia by the Saudi Green Initiative and the Saudi Exchange ESG disclosure guidelines, with listed companies also following ADX or DFM guidance.

We hand over with runbooks and training, and can stay on under agreed service levels.

Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.

What we deliver

Specialists in retail and e-commerce and platform engineers, with you from design to stable operation.

  • Incidents and actions

    Incident reporting from site, investigation steps and corrective actions tracked to closure.

  • Inspections and permits

    Inspection checklists and permit-to-work steps configured for each site and activity.

  • Environmental and emissions data

    Energy, waste and emissions data collected from sites and calculated with documented methods.

  • Consumer and data rules

    We design consent, returns and customer data handling around consumer protection rules and personal data law in each market, such as the UAE PDPL and the Saudi PDPL, with ZATCA e-invoicing requirements where Saudi sales are in scope.

  • Occupational health

    Health surveillance, exposure records and fitness-for-work checks held with restricted access.

  • Contractor safety

    Contractor induction, permits and incident records linked to each contractor company.

What to have in place first

An EHS programme is ready to start when HSE leadership agrees the incident categories and first sites, and site teams can give time to testing.

  • Merchandising and digital teams have agreed who owns product and price data.
  • HSE leadership has agreed the incident categories and the sites to start with.
  • The emissions sources and calculation methods for the first report have been agreed.

Plan EHS and sustainability reporting in retail and e-commerce

Share your current systems, compliance themes and timeline. We will return a phased plan, a staffing model and a risk register for your stakeholders to review.

Request a phased plan