We specialise in machinery safety and interlocking, delivering life-saving solutions that protect people working on and around machinery globally since 1977. Our market-leading products help prevent machine operators from accessing hazardous areas within machinery or ensure procedures are enforced. These solutions are used across a wide range of industries, including automotive, food and beverage, power infrastructure, metal production, and others.
At Fortress, it’s not just about what we do—how we do it is just as important.
Our commitment to continuously improving workplace safety, providing expert guidance, and developing solutions to meet evolving needs of our customers drives every decision we make. Trusted by major global brands, we offer solutions tailored to each and every customer, no matter the industry or application.
We are actively involved in the development of safety standards, supporting numerous standard development committees, including BSI, ANSI, and ISO. We can help you navigate the complexity of machinery safety standards and offer training and guidance to implement the best safety solutions to protect personnel whilst ensuring your operations run as efficiently as possible.
Thanks to a large network of employees and trusted distributors, we have a global reach and can offer support all around the world.
Leaders in automation safety product development.
Active in safety standards development.
Protecting people in more than 40,000 facilities.
Operating in 67 countries.
Leaders in automation safety product development.
Active in safety standards development.
Protecting people in more than 40,000 facilities.
Operating in 67 countries.
At Fortress, we are committed to delivering the best safety solutions, combining industry expertise, cutting-edge innovation, and trusted partnerships to protect people working on and around machinery worldwide.
Fortress Safety is proud to be an award-winning company, recognised for excellence in industrial safety solutions. Our most recent achievement, the King’s Award for Enterprise for International Trade 2024, reinforces our position as a trusted global leader and validates the direction we have taken as a company. This honour builds on a legacy of recognition, including the Queen’s Awards for Innovation in 2007 and for International Trade in 2008 and 2018.
In addition to these prestigious accolades, Fortress has been named a finalist in the Medium Business category for the 2025 Business Impact Awards, presented by Huntington National Bank and the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. We are also proud recipients of the West Midlands Business of the Year Award 2025 for International Trade. These honours highlight our ongoing commitment to innovation, global reach, and delivering high-quality safety solutions.
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Halma is a FTSE 100 company with over 8000 employees in around 50+ subsidiaries worldwide. Together we have a purpose that drives everything we do:
Fortress has a strong family culture – we show kindness, respect and consideration in all our interactions.
We consider ourselves to be agile and highly innovative and that involves being brave and taking risks. We have invested heavily in providing a positive working environment where our colleagues feel valued, trusted and have the opportunity for personal growth.
Guided by our purpose, our employees are professional, engaging, and a pleasure to work with. We believe diversity is an asset and provide an environment where everyone can be themselves at work.
Our culture fosters creativity, innovation and continuous improvement.
We have the peace of mind that our workers are safe and protected by Fortress equipment.
Fortress’ best quality is providing each customer the most robust and safe solution – all whilst being customisable and retaining a high level of quality.
We value suppliers that can help navigate the standards and provide guidance that is directly linked to our applications.
Fortress is a global organisation that has a proven track record of worldwide growth.
The Fortress Application and Technical Support Team provides specialised guidance and in-depth safety expertise to support our customers in identifying the most effective solutions for their unique applications.
Our commitment to technical excellence and customer success helps drive business growth, foster long-term partnerships, and promote a safer working environment across industries.
The Fortress support teams are made up of Finance, HR & IT and each play an important role in helping to drive the business forwards.
HR help to drive a positive culture and working environment for our workforce, ensuring our offering attracts and retains top talent, whilst Finance encompasses areas including payroll who make sure our colleagues get paid on time.
Our Fortress Sales team are key to understanding what our customers really want, working with them in partnership to help find a solution that is right for them.
Our Sales team drive business growth through identifying new customers and nurturing existing customer accounts.
The Technical Safety organisation within Fortress is responsible for Safety Services and Engineering. Understanding requirements found in machine safety and product specific standards is the basis of this organisation.
We use the information from the standards to provide training on the application of the standards, to help customers with their specific applications, and to develop products to meet the requirements within the standards.
The information from the standards is also used to generate ideas to further grow the product portfolio and services offerings to support Fortress customers by being machinery safety experts.
At Fortress, our Marketing team is central to our business growth. Marketing works to build our brand awareness and promote sales of our products.
Our team consists of Channel Marketing and Digital Marketing capabilities. We partner with our channel partners to devise and implement strategies that promote our products to end users.
Our website and digital presence enable us to highlight technical product capability and share product information with our existing and potential customers.
Our Operations department is ultimately responsible for getting product to our global customer base in the most efficient way possible. Whilst that might sound simple, this involves several different teams around the globe coming together and working collaboratively. Our Supply Chain & Planning Teams ensure that we have the right flow of materials and product from our chosen suppliers through to our customers.
Our manufacturing engineering team works to make us as efficient as possible, championing innovative manufacturing approaches and technologies. Our production teams are at the heart of what we do, building and assembling our products.
This is all supported by our Quality & Compliance team, working collaboratively across the business to uphold the highest standards.
The Fortress Product Management team leads the product strategy of the business. Product managers are ultimately the general manager for their product lines, leading the profitability and growth strategy for their assigned product portfolio.
They are involved in the entire product development process from concept to product launch.
Working closely with cross functional teams, Product Managers are the central connection between sales, operations, and engineering.
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