Your security function, on permanent standby.
Duty of Care: The Obligation You Cannot Delegate Away
If your organisation sends people into complex or high-risk environments, duty of care is not a policy document sitting in a drawer — it is a live, continuous legal and moral obligation, and the standard expected of you is rising. Regulators are tightening enforcement. Courts are increasingly unforgiving of organisations that treated risk as a box to tick rather than a responsibility to actively manage. When something goes wrong, the question is never “did you have a policy” — it is “what did you actually do, and could you prove it.”
This is precisely the gap Ellara Risk exists to close. Retaining Ellara Risk means your duty of care obligation is met continuously — through ongoing advisory access, governance oversight, and genuine emergency response capability — not reactively assembled after an incident has already occurred. You gain a demonstrable, defensible standard of care: documented, senior-led, and in place before you need it, not scrambled together once you do.
Both retainer tiers below are built around this principle. The difference between them is depth of access and response — not whether duty of care is being addressed at all.
Standard Retainer
By Agreement
Priced to your requirement
- Direct senior consultancy access — priority response
- Ad-hoc advisory, document review, and sense-checking
- Access to the Ellara Risk global provider network for guidance and referral
- Crisis and evacuation activation at genuine provider cost plus 10% — versus 20% for non-retained clients
- 10% preferential rate on all deployments and project work
Project Engagements
On Request
Scoped to your requirement
- Security Management Planning
- Remote Threat Assessments
- Security Risk Assessments
- Crisis Management Planning
- Evacuation Planning
- Journey Management Planning
- Security Policy Development
- Day rates from $1,500 USD
Premium Retainer
By Agreement
Priced to your requirement
- Direct senior consultancy access — guaranteed response
- Included annual deployment capacity — usable flexibly across any consultancy service
- Full activation and coordination across the Ellara Risk global provider network — we run it for you
- Crisis and evacuation activation at genuine provider cost plus 10% — versus 20% for non-retained clients
- 15% preferential rate on all additional deployments and project work
- A retained relationship with Ellara Risk is not priced by the hour of work delivered each month. It is priced on guaranteed access, readiness, and immediate mobilisation capability when your organisation needs it most — not a call centre, not a ticketing system, a senior practitioner who can act.
- All engagements are confirmed via our NDA and client contract. Fees are quoted in USD as standard and exclusive of expenses unless otherwise agreed. Discretion and confidentiality are unconditional obligations across all engagements.