Our story
In the late 1980s, Derek Gardner took what he’d learned as Principal EHO at Leicester City Council and started ESB. His approach was refreshingly simple, shake hands on a plan, do the work, and leave people better prepared than you found them. Word spread because the support was practical and the results held up under inspection.
Over the next three decades ESB widened its scope from food safety into health and safety, fire safety, training and incident support. We helped independents and groups through big shifts. Allergen labelling changes, COVID-era controls, and now readiness for Martyn’s Law, always with the same ethos. People first, clear routines, evidence that stands up.
ESB is still a family-led consultancy, now run by Ben Gardner. Derek’s foundations guide the way we work, and the next generation has added digital know-how and multi-site experience. The promise hasn’t changed, practical support you can use this week, not a thick file that gathers dust.
Over the next three decades ESB widened its scope from food safety into health and safety, fire safety, training and incident support. We helped independents and groups through big shifts. Allergen labelling changes, COVID-era controls, and now readiness for Martyn’s Law, always with the same ethos. People first, clear routines, evidence that stands up.
ESB is still a family-led consultancy, now run by Ben Gardner. Derek’s foundations guide the way we work, and the next generation has added digital know-how and multi-site experience. The promise hasn’t changed, practical support you can use this week, not a thick file that gathers dust.
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