At Dark Ocean, we empower businesses to thrive in an ever-changing world. Based in the heart of St. Augustine, Florida, we extend our expertise to businesses both near and far, guiding them through the intricate realm of organizational risks. Our team of safety professionals, all certified by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, ensures top-tier industry knowledge and proven results.
Our consultative services, whether on-site or remote, are meticulously tailored to meet each client’s unique needs and compliance challenges. We foster close collaboration, delivering unparalleled service and flexible, customized solutions. Our goal is to create a secure and resilient operational environment, contributing significantly to the sustained success and growth of our clients’ businesses.
At Dark Ocean, our mission is to provide unparalleled safety partnerships. When you choose us, you are connected with a dedicated safety consultant committed solely to your organization. We believe in a personalized approach, ensuring our consultants deeply understand your specific industry, business goals, and workplace challenges. By seamlessly integrating into your overarching business needs, we create customized safety solutions that foster a secure and thriving work environment for your organization.
With decades of experience, industry-leading certifications, and advanced degrees, our consultants are the reliable and trustworthy choice.
Whatever you need, whenever you need it, Dark Ocean can scale our services towards your unique business requirements.
The return on investment for properly managing occupational risk is measurable through incremental, year-over-year gains.
Health and Safety professionals are indispensable for organizational success. But maintaining a full-time, in-house health and safety professional might not always be practical or cost-effective, especially for small and medium-sized businesses. This is where Dark Ocean steps in. We provide a precise, professional, and budget-friendly solution for your Health and Safety program, reducing the overhead costs typically associated with a full-time position. By partnering with us, you tap into the wealth of knowledge and expertise offered by our safety consultants, all without the overhead of hiring a full-time employee. Whatever level of support you require, we have you covered.
Discover what our clients say about working with Dark Ocean. Whether you need us to draft your Health and Safety Manual, provide workplace safety training to your employees, or manage your organization’s safety program, we can help.
Yes! We can provide 24/7 assistance on an ongoing basis. Through our affordable monthly agreement, you gain access to a consistent consultant who is exclusively assigned to your organization, ensuring a seamless and ongoing partnership. This Health & Safety Professional will provide safety training, policy and procedure development, incident response, consultations, OSHA record-keeping, pre-qualification assistance, and more. Whether you require virtual or onsite support, our team is equipped to assist you in all aspects of health and safety management, saving you the expense of hiring a full-time employee.
Yes, we will come to your location and provide professional OSHA training to your organization. We can also provide remote training sessions if that is your preference.
You should consider contacting us if you're facing challenges in maintaining compliance, need specialized training, or want to improve your safety programs. If you find it overwhelming to keep up with regulations or experience recurring safety issues, it's a good indicator that a consultant's expertise can benefit your organization. We provide tailored solutions to enhance your safety protocols and ensure compliance, offering peace of mind and efficiency in managing health and safety matters.
Yes, all Dark Ocean group safety professionals are Certified Safety Professionals (CSP) through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP).
Yes, our services are scalable. Whether you require a one-time training session or full implementation and management of your Health and Safety program, we can adjust our services to meet your specific needs. We offer flexibility to businesses, ensuring our solutions align with your requirements and budget constraints.
We recognize that each client's operation is unique. Our professionals engage directly with your business to understand its nuances, allowing us to create a customized impact analysis and establish appropriate modes for managing your risk exposure. You will be partnered with a dedicated safety consultant who comprehensively understands your business and integrates into your overarching business needs.
Reach out for a free, zero-obligation consultation. We look forward to hearing from you!
Dark Ocean Group
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to