Who We Are
When it comes to managing critical risk in complex, hostile or remote scenarios, ERS is the team you want.
Our expertise is second to none, and we are passionate about keeping organisations and people safe.
We provide highly specialised teams that do things right, backed by the expertise and intelligence insights, to identify potential issues and ensure you have 24/7 support to mitigate risks, when you need it.
With a talent pool of more than 500, our people and teams draw on their real-life experience from military, intelligence, fire & emergency, law enforcement and security services, to give you the advice, assurance and action you need, when you need it.
Our Values
Our Expertise
Military and Intelligence
Founded by veterans, ERS has strong experience and skills across military and intelligence, and many of our team have a military background. The skills our veterans are critical to the strength of our risk management capabilities, and our ability to develop effective and efficient operational responses right across the globe.
Fire and Emergency
We have deep expertise covering fire, medical and emergency management across the ERS team. This supports our work in everything from a strategic assessment of hazards, reviews of emergency and crisis systems and processes, preparing emergency response plans, and crisis response. This expertise also supports ERS's training & development and recruitment programs, ensuring we have the right skilled and qualified staff ready to deploy for our clients.
Law Enforcement
The law enforcement background of a number of the ERS team contributes strongly to ERS’s ability with security and intelligence services, including the ability to assess to threats to an organisation or individual, and co-ordinating appropriate responses in crisis and emergency situations.
Environment
As environmental risks have become a key feature for ESG’s assessments, ERS now developed its environmental risk management capabilities to support organisations manage environmental risks from approvals through to implementation. Our team is highly experienced within the environmental space, and is supported by ERS’s wider risk management skills and expertise
Our Founder
Former Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment veteran Scott Houston, who served in Afghanistan and East Timor, swapped the battlefield for the boardroom when he founded ERS in 2008.
Scott recognised the unique skills he’d developed through the military could be applied to risk management scenarios for private and public organisations in high-risk operational settings, including mining, healthcare, government, critical infrastructure, and high-profile individuals.
Scott, and his wife Fiona, imprinted strong military discipline, expertise and strong focus on service into the ERS DNA, and the company quickly became Australia's leading risk management provider, expanding into global markets.
Scott is now sits on the ERS Board, and continues to drive ERS's ethos of service, solutions and excellence.
Yampurru
Sitting within the wider ERS family is Yampurru, an Indigenous-owned company that specialises in providing high-level indigenous-led services such as security, logistics, emergency response, medical management and indigenous engagement.
Based in WA and operating nationally, Yampurru fosters relationships with Traditional Owner groups, offers employment pathways for Indigenous Australians and promotes local procurement and community training opportunities.
Our History
- Nic Fairbank becomes Managing Director of ERS.
- Founder Scott Houston takes up the role of Chairman of the Board.
- Previously known as Accurate STP, our Indigenous business relaunches as Yampurru.
- ERS secures a new major client with Pilbara Ports.
ERS Launchers its Emergency Operations Centre (24/7) Intelligence capability to provide operational support for clients
ERS is named the Telstra Australian Business of the Year, recognising how ERS has transferred the skills and expertise of the armed forces and crisis and emergency operations to support businesses and individuals.
First formal contract established with Roy Hill providing security and crisis and emergency support. ERS still works with Roy Hill today.
Swapping the battlefield for the boardroom, Executive Risk Solutions was founded in 2008 by former Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment soldier Scott Houston, a third-generation military man who served in overseas deployments including Afghanistan and East Timor. After many years at the Managing Director, Scott is now the Chair of the ERS Board.
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With more than 20 years experience in delivering risk and crisis management for organisations and individuals, ERS has deep experience across mining & resources, health, government, defence, critical infrastructure, oil & gas operations and more.
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