Darren Smith, CMIOSH, is health and safety director at health, safety, ergonomics and user experience consultancy, System Concepts, www.systemconcepts.com
No one, including a business, wants to buy a pig in a poke. Moving offices or taking on more space to gain extra manufacturing or warehouse capacity is enough of an upheaval in itself, without finding out after you have signed the paperwork that your site comes with liabilities that mean you paid well over the odds.That’s where due diligence (DD) comes in. DD involves investigating the full scope and state of an asset before buying it.