Construction Safety Compliance Audits.
A compliance audit gives you a clear picture of where your site and your safety paperwork stand before an inspector, an owner, or a Contracting Officer forms one for you. We look at the work, the records, and the program behind them, and we tell you what we found and where.
The Site, the Records, and the Program
On the Site
We walk the work with your superintendent: access and fall protection, scaffolds and ladders, excavations, equipment, housekeeping, electrical, and whatever your scope adds. We talk with foremen and crews along the way, because what people know is part of what we're auditing.
In the Records
Training records, competent person designations, inspection logs, equipment inspections, hazard analyses, and incident reports. We check that they exist, that they're current, and that they match what's actually happening on site.
In the Program
Your written safety program and site plans, read against OSHA's construction standards, EM 385-1-1 where your contract carries it, and what your own program says you do.
A Report You Can Work From
Findings are only useful if your team can find them and fix them, so every one of them points at a place.
- Each finding tied to the location, document, or page where we found it
- What the requirement is and why the finding matters
- A prioritized list, so the items with the most risk get handled first
- Recommendations for closing each gap, with the decisions left to you
- A walk-through of the report with your team if you'd like one
Good Times to Bring in a Second Set of Eyes
Contractors ask for an audit for all kinds of reasons: before a first federal job, after a near miss or an incident, when an owner's prequalification asks hard questions, when a project is ramping up with new subcontractors, or simply because it's been a while since anyone outside the company looked. Whatever the reason, the audit is scoped to it, whether that means one site for one day or a look across several jobs and your whole program.
Optimum Safety is led by Kali Irvin, CSP, CHST (both through BCSP), currently an SSHO on a federal construction project under EM 385-1-1. We're a small business, so you work directly with the people doing the audit.
If the audit shows your written program needs work, we can help with safety program development. If it shows you need more safety coverage on site, see site safety staffing. For federal work, our guide to EM 385-1-1 daily inspection requirements covers what the manual expects day to day.
Want a Clear Picture of Where You Stand?
Tell us about the site or sites you'd like audited and what's driving the request, and we'll come back with how we'd approach it.