Construction Safety Consultant in Dayton, Ohio.
Optimum Safety is a construction safety consulting firm based in Dayton, Ohio. We work with general contractors and trade contractors on commercial and federal projects, in the Miami Valley and wherever else the work takes them.
A Local Firm for the Whole Job
Being based in Dayton means we're close by when a local job needs someone on site for a walk, a meeting, or a class, and it means you're working with a small business whose people you can actually get on the phone. Here's what we do for contractors around Dayton:
- Site safety staffing: a site safety manager for a whole project, part of it, or the critical phase
- SSHO staffing for federal projects under EM 385-1-1
- Accident Prevention Plan and Activity Hazard Analysis reviews before submission
- Compliance audits of your sites, records, and program
- Safety program development, or a review of the program you have
- A monthly retainer for ongoing help without a full-time hire
Classes at Your Site
We teach competent person, end user, and operator classes in person, either at your own site, so your people train on the same equipment and conditions they work with, or at another predetermined location. For example, there's our Fall Protection Competent Person Training and our Scaffolding Competent Person Training; the full list is on our Ohio construction safety training page.
Field First, Relationship Driven
Safety work is mostly in the field and sometimes at a desk. We spend our time with your superintendents, foremen, and crews, because a program only works when the people running the work believe in it. When we find something, we tell you what, where, and why it matters, and we leave the decisions about how your crews work with you.
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 work under OSHA's construction standards on commercial jobs and under EM 385-1-1 on federal ones, and our EM 385-1-1 resources answer common contractor questions from the 2024 manual.
We're a small business, which gives us more flexibility on schedules, durations, and coverage than a large firm usually has. Dayton is home, and we go where the project is, with no limit on where we'll work.
Working on a Project Around Dayton?
Tell us about the job, where it stands, and what you need, and we'll come back with how we can help.