Hadley Group is a global manufacturer of cold-rolled steel solutions, serving the construction, automotive, and industrial markets across multiple international locations.  is a global manufacturer of cold-rolled steel solutions, serving the construction, automotive, and industrial markets across multiple international locations.

EcoOnline is helping them build a risk culture that doesn’t just meet compliance requirements but delivers genuine visibility and long-term predictability across the entire business.

EcoOnline is like a living, breathing system in the background doing work for us. It flags risks we might not have spotted for months.

– Mark Pendrey,
HSE Systems & Compliance Manager

Raising the bar, one risk area at a time

As Hadley Group’s operations scaled, so did the complexity of managing risk across them. COSHH assessments, lone-worker safety, and sustainability reporting were each being managed separately. These processes had served the business well but were stretched by growing regulatory demands, rising customer expectations, and the need for faster, more reliable data.

Hadley Group needed a partner that could bring structure and confidence to multiple areas of risk without adding complexity or asking teams to work from entirely different playbooks. EcoOnline stood out.

A consistent, guidance-led approach helped the business move from meeting requirements, to understanding risk, to making proactive decisions based on reliable data. That journey, from compliance to visibility to predictability, is exactly what EcoOnline and Hadley Group are building together.

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Strengthen safety at every level

The foundation of any strong risk culture is making sure the right processes and information are in place for the people who need them most. For Hadley Group, that meant evolving how hazardous substance management and lone-worker safety worked in practice.

EcoOnline’s COSHH Risk Assessment Software replaced paper-based documentation with clear, worker-friendly safety summaries that are accessible, standardised, and built to hold up under audit.

“The Worker Safety Summary Sheets have really helped put minds at ease. It’s been priceless in reassuring the lads that the chemicals they’re using are safe.” Connor Eldridge, HSE Manager, Downing Street site.

“The system we had was far too informal… EcoOnline has taken us from something barely auditable to a professional, robust way of managing hazardous substances.” said Mark Pendrey, HSE Systems & Compliance Manager.

Alongside COSHH risk assessment software, EcoOnline’s Lone Worker app has strengthened how Hadley manages its duty of care to employees working remotely or outside standard hours. Night security teams operating across multiple sites now have real-time check-ins, location visibility, and a rapid response capability that gives the business the level of oversight.

“Before, we had no real visibility of where lone workers were. Now we can see their exact location, check-ins, and movements – it’s given us a much safer way of operating.” Connor Eldridge, HSE Manager, Downing Street site.

Data you can act on

Getting the foundations right creates something more valuable than audit readiness. It creates visibility. With structured, reliable data now flowing through their COSHH and lone-worker processes, Hadley Group’s teams have moved from managing risk reactively to having genuine oversight across the business. Emerging issues that might previously have taken time to surface are now flagged quickly.

This shift is evident in Hadley Group’s ESG reporting. When one of Hadley’s key customers introduced more stringent sustainability disclosure requirements, the pressure to deliver accurate, transparent, and timely carbon data became a strategic priority.

EcoOnline’s ESG software automated data ingestion, applied region-specific emission factors, and removed the uncertainty from carbon calculations, giving leaders a clear, auditable understanding of their true environmental impact for the first time.

“Understanding our true emission profile is the first step. Without accurate data, we couldn’t set credible targets or meet the expectations of our biggest customers.” said Doyin Adeleye, Sustainability/ESG Manager.

The results were immediate. The time it took to complete annual carbon accounting was reduced by over 50%.

We finished our carbon accounting in under six weeks. If we’d done it manually, it would’ve taken more than three months.

– Doyin Adeleye,
Sustainability/ESG Manager

Building a more predictable, future-ready business

Across lone-worker safety, COSHH, and ESG performance, each solution delivers the same thing: structure, clarity, and data the business can trust.

With repeatable, auditable compliance processes now in place, Hadley’s teams have the foundation to look further ahead, using consistent data across all three risk areas to spot patterns, make informed decisions on investment and performance, and set targets they can stand behind with confidence.

For Hadley Group, EcoOnline is more than software. It’s a partnership built on shared ambition. A collaboration that will grow alongside the business as expectations rise and the drive for resilient operations.