What is Human House?
Human House is a private consulting firm, legally incorporated as a Danish public limited company (Human House A/S), specializing in two areas that it explicitly combines in its activities: organizational leadership and occupational health and safety. It is headquartered in Søborg, in the Copenhagen metropolitan area, and maintains offices in other cities in Denmark and a subsidiary in the United Kingdom, Human House International A/S.
It is important to clarify its nature: it is a company that sells consulting services in a competitive market, not a professional body, college, or public entity. It has no regulatory or inspection powers over the companies it advises, and its involvement in an organization stems from a contractual relationship, not a legal obligation to engage it.
Purpose and scope of action
Human House operates primarily in the Danish market, where its website indicates activity in most of the country’s municipalities. It also has a presence in the United Kingdom through its Oxford office. The company’s founding year and figures for clients or revenue could not be verified with a reliable source, so this information is not included.
Services and main lines of work
Human House’s activity is organized into several service blocks.
- Work environment assessments. We perform APV (Arbejdspladsvurdering), the mandatory work environment assessment required by Danish regulations, along with specific chemical, biological and ergonomic risk assessments.
- Psychosocial risk. Evaluates and manages situations of harassment, stress and violence at work, and offers training and tools for organizational psychological safety.
- Psychological support and well-being. Offers individual support sessions, management of absenteeism due to illness, and workplace wellness programs.
- Safety training. Provides mandatory occupational safety courses, online training, and specific programs for the construction sector.
- Leadership consulting. Offers leadership assessments, executive coaching, change management, and organizational culture analysis, using tools such as 360-degree feedback.
The Danish APV and its relationship with risk assessment
The Arbejdspladsvurdering, known by its acronym APV, is the workplace assessment that Danish law requires all companies with employees to conduct. According to the Danish Agency for the Environment (Arbejdstilsynet), it is a mandatory process in which the employer, in collaboration with the employees, evaluates both the physical and psychological work environment, identifies existing risks, and develops a written action plan to address them.
In Denmark, the APV (Assessment of Psychosocial Risks) fulfills a function equivalent to that of the risk assessment required by Spanish regulations, with one relevant difference: Danish regulations expressly integrate the assessment of the physical and psychological work environment into a single process, while in Spain, the assessment of general occupational risks and the assessment of psychosocial risks are usually developed as separate processes, although both derive from the same legal obligation to assess all the risks of the job.
Contribution to safety and health at work
Human House provides its clients with specialized consulting services, combining technical workplace assessments with psychosocial risk and leadership management in a single project—an integrated approach not offered by all consulting firms in the sector. Its participation in the Vision Zero community, promoted internationally by the International Social Security Association, aligns with this approach, which focuses on the joint improvement of safety, health, and psychosocial working conditions.
As a private company, its services replace or complement those that can be provided by the prevention service of each organization, as decided by each Danish company within the margin granted by its national regulations, but it has no function of authority or control over compliance with the preventive obligations of its clients.
Relationship with the ORP International Foundation
Human House is an unusual case within the ORP International Foundation’s institutional advisory committee: it is neither a public body nor a professional association, but a private Danish consulting firm specializing in leadership and occupational health and safety, headquartered in Søborg with a presence in the United Kingdom. Its membership on the committee is an institutional relationship, not an endorsement of its commercial services.
Practical application
For a health and safety professional working with Danish subsidiaries or suppliers, Human House illustrates how a workplace safety management model that integrates the physical and psychosocial aspects of the work environment from the outset functions in practice—a useful point for comparing regulatory approaches. For an organization considering outsourcing part of its safety management and leadership, it exemplifies the type of specialized private consultancy available in the Danish market, whose engagement does not exempt the company from its legal obligations regarding workplace safety management.
