Workplace safety services

We staff two core roles: a site safety lead who runs the program (admin, investigations, client meetings, root-cause work) and field safety techs (audits, pre-task plans, training, catching problems before someone gets hurt). On a small site, one tech is enough. Larger or higher-risk work layers a lead over one or more techs. We can also provide a full on-site safety team.

When you add up benefits, workers’ comp, unemployment exposure, and recruiting if your hire walks, contracted staffing costs typically are below hiring in-house. Your tech can call the rest of our team mid-day if something unfamiliar comes up. We use tiered staffing rates, so you won't pay the same for a 20-year CST as you would for a starter-level cert.

One real-life example: a tech walking a large Idaho site spotted an electrical cord burning against a concrete wall and put it out with the nearest extinguisher. Another ten minutes and the fire could have reached the structure. That’s what full-time eyes on the work will buy you.

Audits run through SafetyCulture (or similar workflows) so checklists stay consistent and you get a PDF you can distribute. Two rules we hold ourselves to. First, nothing on the report should be a surprise: we discuss anything tagged negative on site with supers and the people involved before we write it up. Second, findings come with what “good” looks like for the next walk.

The most common gap we find isn’t an on-site hazard. It’s training that was completed informally but never made it to the record. We ensure training is traceable. Once it’s on paper, supers can reference and enforce it. The PDF doubles as a record clients use with subs and owners (“we already discussed this last week”) or as proof a crew is performing when everything looks good.

Call us as soon as OSHA is on the radar. If you call mid-inspection and we have time to get there, we’ll walk it with the inspector: we take photos when they take photos, we take samples when they take samples, our documentation mirrors theirs. Just having our name on the file at the informal hearing tends to bring the citation down.

Recent example: we argued that a damaged trench box had never actually held anyone inside. OSHA downgraded a "serious" citation to "other-than-serious" and cut $7,000 off the penalty. We work with field-level facts, not legal theory. For the technical safety arguments, we’re priced better than risk-management attorneys and we know the trades.

Some clients need a compliant manual to bid a job: name, logo, signed, done. Others want the manual plus follow-up training so the binder isn’t shelf-ware. We do both. HazCom and SDS programs are usually the most out-of-date piece (regulations and chemical inventories shift constantly), so those get extra attention.

We support clients in the OSHA Partnership Program and similar arrangements where partners scrutinize documentation. We know what “audit-ready” looks like. Out-of-state and multi-site operations sometimes need state-specific addenda; we tailor the manual to how your team operates instead of using a generic template.

Your EMR (experience modification rate) is a multiplier on your workers’ comp premium. Above 1.0 you pay a surcharge, below 1.0 you get a discount. Getting classifications, lost-time flags, and claim closures right has real-dollar consequences. We took one client from a 2.8 EMR to a 0.97 by working their comp claims aggressively, getting people back to work on time, and pushing claims to resolution, about $350,000 a year in savings.

Beyond the OSHA 300 log, we’ll review training files, SDS, respiratory programs, medical clearances, JHAs, pre-task plans, any paper trail that should tell a consistent story under scrutiny. One recent client had 55 injuries on their 300 log; none were actually applicable. We helped wipe the log clean and kept them off OSHA’s radar.

Course list keeps growing: forklift, MEWP (aerial/scissor/boom), confined space, excavation competent person, fall protection, CPR/first aid, de-escalation, and more. For these courses, we issue the certification or operator card directly, with no third-party prep. We are also OSHA-authorized to deliver the OSHA 10-Hour and 30-Hour Outreach Training Courses (Construction); students who complete a class receive an official OSHA student course completion card from our Authorizing Training Organization. The OSHA Outreach Training Program is voluntary, is not a certification program, and does not by itself satisfy any OSHA standard's training requirement. Class size follows ratio rules (CPR caps at 12:1) but we aim for ~10 learners on skills-heavy courses for retention and seat time. Toolbox talks and all-hands meetings scale to hundreds.

Training that sticks comes from the instructor. We bring real props: damaged harnesses, failed SRLs, and soil samples for excavation class. We adjust scenarios to where you work (first aid for crews near the coast covers jellyfish stings; landlocked Idaho skips them). MEWP and forklift are the two certs crews most often miss but they should be mandatory. The incident data on these machines is eye-opening.