Services

Four disciplines, one integrated service.

Bring us in for one discipline, or all four. The real value is the fifth: one advisor who sees how safety, compliance, reputation and relationships affect each other.

New to the Voluntary Principles or supply-chain reporting? Read why it matters.

Discipline 1

Safety, stability and reputational risk

When to call us: Entering a new region or partnership, before financing or a lender’s audit, or after an incident.

  • Site, terminal, corridor and regional risk assessments covering safety, community stability and human rights
  • Reputational risk reviews that flag the safety, human-rights and community issues most likely to damage your reputation, with practical steps to reduce them
  • Voluntary Principles (VPSHR) and human-rights training for managers and site staff
  • Human-rights due diligence on contractors and partners
  • Travel safety and duty-of-care protocols for remote, northern and international work

Discipline 2

Regulatory and international compliance

When to call us: Before financing, an audit, a supply-chain report or a move into a new market.

  • Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR) gap assessments and implementation plans
  • Human-rights and compliance policies, procedures and SOPs that can be audited
  • Responsible-sourcing and supply-chain due diligence, including input to reports under Canada’s forced labour supply-chain law
  • Preparing for U.S. and European forced-labour import rules and lender reviews

Discipline 3

Crisis communications

When to call us: When you have a story to tell, before something goes wrong, and the hour it does.

  • Crisis, evacuation and business continuity plans with the communications plan built in
  • Crisis-readiness reviews and tabletop exercises
  • On-call crisis communications and spokesperson support
  • Issues management for project announcements, protests, public hearings and opposition campaigns
  • Media and high-pressure communication training for executives

Discipline 4

Indigenous and community engagement

When to call us: From early planning through permitting, construction, expansion and operations, and when preparing a bid, benefit or partnership agreement.

  • Rightsholder and stakeholder mapping, engagement strategies and plans
  • Engagement grounded in treaty and Aboriginal rights, UNDRIP and free, prior and informed consent
  • Community grievance mechanisms that people trust and use
  • Mediation of practical disputes, such as access, land use, marine traffic and safety around active sites
  • Intercultural communication and facilitation with Nations, communities and governments
  • Impact assessments: guidance through environmental and social impact assessments, from early scoping and engagement to review of findings
  • Benefit agreements: support for impact benefit and economic benefit agreements, from preparation and negotiation support to tracking what was promised, for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Nations, communities, governments and companies
  • Led by our senior team, with specialists from our international network, including accredited assessors where the law requires them, brought in for each engagement and region
  • Identifying, vetting and introducing Indigenous-owned suppliers and contractors on the BC coast and in the North
  • Local-content strategies that help meet hiring and contracting commitments in impact and benefit agreements
  • Support for Nation development corporations weighing equity or services roles, alongside their legal and financial advisors
  • Supplier development that helps Indigenous and northern businesses become contract-ready

Integrated service

Full-corridor advisory

When to call us: Board meetings, investment and partnership decisions, market entry and annual reporting, or whenever a risk crosses disciplines or borders.

  • Early-warning briefings on political, regulatory, Indigenous and community risk, with scenario analysis
  • Decision-ready dossiers and stakeholder maps for boards, lenders, investors and Nation leadership
  • Due diligence on prospective partners, operators and investors
  • Briefings on government priorities, major-project listings and trade-corridor funding, in Canada and abroad
  • A practical map of new operating landscapes, from the Canadian North to markets abroad: who does what, logistics windows, permits and local expectations
  • All four disciplines coordinated by one senior lead

Ways to engage

Start small or bring us in for the long run.

  • Risk snapshot

    A short, decision-ready briefing on a project, partner, site or corridor before you commit.

  • VPSHR or crisis-readiness review

    A fixed-scope review of your current plans and practices, with a prioritized list of fixes.

  • Partnership readiness review

    For a proponent or a Nation: relationships, agreements and risks, reviewed before a deal or an expansion.

  • Interim deployment

    An experienced risk, communications or engagement lead on the ground while you recruit or through a critical phase.

  • Retainer

    Ongoing advisory support, including on-call crisis communications.

  • Government contracts

    Direct awards, standing offers and competitive tenders through CanadaBuys and BC Bid, international procurement through partners and multilateral agencies, and U.S. public-sector work as our U.S. presence grows.

We are paid by our clients, never by suppliers or contractors, so every recommendation stays independent.

Connect with Corridor directly.

A first conversation is free and confidential. Email connect@corridorrisk.ca.

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