Third-Party Jobsite Safety Inspections
The monthly or bi-weekly safety inspection general contractors normally hire an outside consultant for, run by an OSHA 30-hour trained inspector, with an aerial layer a ground-only walk cannot produce.
What you get
Every engagement, every time.
A safety inspection is only worth what gets closed. The report is built around that: every observation carries a photograph, a location, the referenced standard, a recommended corrective action, and a responsible party, and every open item from last visit gets re-walked.
- Scheduled walk of active work areas, monthly or bi-weekly
- Full-site aerial capture on the same visit, on a repeated flight path
- Observations organized by 29 CFR 1926 subpart
- Photograph, location, referenced standard, and recommended corrective action on every item
- Open items from the prior visit re-walked, re-photographed, and closed or carried forward
- Trend summary across visits, so repeat conditions surface before an incident does
- Verbal notification on site for anything that looks like an immediate hazard
- Branded PDF inside 24 hours, with a trade-partner breakout you can forward
Who uses it
Built for the person who has to defend the decision.
Safety directors and risk managers
An outside set of eyes on the cadence your program already runs, from a party with no schedule pressure and nothing to protect. Most useful on the sites your own team cannot reach every week.
Subcontractors and trade partners
A documented record of conditions in your own work area, and evidence that you were finding and closing items rather than waiting to be told. Single-trade scopes are priced for that.
Owners, developers, and carriers
Independent documentation that the project carrying your name is being run the way the contract says it will be. Sits alongside builder's risk and progress documentation on the same site.
The difference
What the aerial layer adds.
A safety consultant on foot sees what is at eye level and what they can physically get to. A meaningful share of what matters on an active site is neither.
Every visit includes a full-site flight on the same flight path, so conditions are not just documented, they are comparable to the last visit and the one before it.
- Guardrail and leading edge continuity across an entire floor plate, in one frame
- Floor and roof openings viewed from directly above rather than inferred from the deck
- Excavation edges, spoil pile setbacks, and ramp conditions
- Crane swing radius, pick zones, and what is being stored underneath them
- Material laydown, stacking heights, and housekeeping at full site scale
- Perimeter protection, public separation, and site access and egress
- How all of it changed since the last visit, on the same repeated flight path
Who is doing the looking
The inspector's background, stated plainly.
Credentials are easy to imply and harder to state. Here is the whole set, including the part that does not apply here.
OSHA 30-hour construction training card. Training, not a certification or a license. Observations reference 29 CFR 1926 for context and are not determinations of regulatory compliance.
Fair Housing Act design and construction coursework and Texas Accessibility Standards training, completed through the Texas Accessibility Academy under the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The Texas accessibility registration is not current, and we hold no accessibility registration in Connecticut or any other state. What carries over is the knowledge: the Texas standards are built on the ADA Standards, and the Fair Housing Act design and construction requirements apply nationwide. On a multifamily project that means accessible routes, clear floor spaces, and unit type requirements are things we recognize in the field and will note when we see them.
What that is not: we do not certify accessibility compliance, we do not perform plan review, and we do not render a legal opinion on Fair Housing Act or ADA obligations. Those stay with the design professional and counsel.
What a visit looks like
Two to four hours on site, one report, no surprises.
Walk
Active work areas, access routes, and anything flagged as open from the prior visit. Coordinated with your superintendent so we are not walking into a pick or a pour.
Fly
Full-site aerial capture on the same repeated flight path, covering the deck, the perimeter, laydown, and excavations from above.
Flag
Anything that looks like an immediate hazard to life or limb goes to your site contact verbally before we leave. It does not wait for the report.
Report
Photographed observations by 29 CFR 1926 subpart, recommended corrective actions, prior items closed or carried, and a trade-partner breakout you can forward directly.
What it looks like
One frame, the whole floor plate.
Leading edges, floor and roof openings, laydown, stacking, and housekeeping read at a glance from above. From the deck each one of those is a separate walk, and the ones you cannot get to do not get walked at all.
The flight path repeats visit to visit, so the question stops being what did you see and becomes what changed.
Pricing
Published starting points.
Fixed price quoted before we fly. Bi-weekly follows the same 1.7x convention as our other recurring lines. Where we are already flying the site for progress documentation, the safety program shares the mobilization and is priced as an add-on. Outside the Northeast, recurring programs are quoted with travel amortized across visits, and a multi-site portfolio routes far more economically than a single distant site.
- Monthly program, Tier 1, under 5 acresFrom $850/mo
- Monthly program, Tier 2, 5 to 25 acresFrom $1,250/mo
- Monthly program, Tier 3, 25 to 100 acresFrom $1,900/mo
- Bi-weekly cadence1.7x monthly
- Add-on to an existing progress retainerFrom $500/mo
- Single inspection or pre-mobilization baselineFrom $650
- Post-incident documentation walkFrom $950
- Corrective action closure re-check between visitsPlus $350
- Single-trade work area scopeFrom $450
- Multi-site portfolio, 3 or more sitesQuoted
Common questions
Are you OSHA, or affiliated with OSHA?
No. OSHA is a federal agency and it does not certify, endorse, or affiliate with private companies. Our inspector holds an OSHA 30-hour construction training card, which is training, not a certification or a license. We are a private third party you hire, the same way you would hire any outside safety consultant.
Does this replace our safety manager?
No, and you should be skeptical of anyone who says otherwise. A monthly or bi-weekly outside walk supplements a program. It does not run one, it is not on site daily, and it does not carry your competent person duties or your obligations as an employer.
What happens if you see something immediately dangerous?
You hear about it before we leave the site. Anything that looks like an immediate hazard to life or limb goes to your site contact verbally on the spot, and the written item follows in the report. Holding it for 24 hours so it can arrive in a PDF would be indefensible.
What does the aerial layer actually add?
Coverage of conditions a ground walk cannot see completely. Guardrail and leading edge continuity across a whole floor plate, floor and roof opening protection from directly above, excavation edges and spoil setbacks, crane swing radius and what is stored under it, and housekeeping across the entire site rather than the portion that got walked.
Do you track corrective actions between visits?
Yes, and it is the part clients use most. Every open item from the prior visit is re-walked, re-photographed, and either closed or carried forward with its age noted. The trend summary shows which conditions keep coming back, which is usually more useful than any single visit.
Can you inspect one trade's work area instead of the whole site?
Yes. Single-trade scopes start at $450 and are common with subcontractors who want their own documented record rather than relying on whatever the general contractor chooses to share.
Could this documentation be used against us?
Not by us. The report goes to you and to whoever you name, and we do not distribute it further. It is worth going in clear-eyed, though: documenting a condition creates a reasonable expectation that it gets corrected. That is the entire reason to hire someone to look, and it is why the corrective action tracking matters more than the observation itself.
Ready to get this on the calendar?
Send the site address and what you need. We come back with scope, a fixed price, and the first available window, usually the same business day.