OSHA compliance, ready before the inspector arrives
Training rosters that hold up, written safety programs that match the standards your crews actually work under, and citation response that keeps a six-figure exposure from becoming a quote on your next mobilization. The OSHA side of the SureTrace engagement, run alongside the private-locate framework.
Three areas, one readiness baseline
A SureTrace OSHA engagement moves through the same three areas below. Each area has a defined outcome you can hold the engagement to.
- Review crew training records, certifications, and prior instructor sign-offs to confirm each crew member is current on the competencies their role requires.
- Audit documented Job Safety Analyses (JSAs) and Daily Job Hazard Analyses for the work scopes the crews actually touch.
- Reconcile three-year OSHA-recordable and DART incident history against the corrective actions the firm already owns on paper.
- Identify the specific 29 CFR parts the firm is most exposed to on its real workload — excavations, electric power, confined space, PPE.
- Map day-to-day field activities to 29 CFR 1926.651/652 excavations, 1926.95 PPE, and the 1926.20/21 safety program & training requirements.
- Map utility-side tasks to 29 CFR 1910.269 electric power generation, transmission, and distribution; flag crew exposures in proximity work.
- Map confined-space tasks to 29 CFR 1910.146 — including the written program, rescue plan, and atmospheric testing cadence.
- Frame the financial exposure: per-violation penalties stack into the six-figure range when repeat or willful citations are documented against a contractor.
- Stand up the written safety program — written procedures, training matrix, supervisor accountability — that 1926.20 requires.
- Build the citation response pack: how to receive an inspector, what to produce on demand, and how to file for the informal conference stage.
- Run a mock audit against the firm's highest-exposure standards; deliver findings as a memo with owner, due date, and corrective path.
- Hand the firm a quarterly review cadence so the documentation does not quietly drift out of date between mobilizations.
The firms where OSHA exposure is built into the workload
OSHA compliance work pays off when the workload itself drives the exposure — not when it is treated as an annual check-the-box.
Excavation, electric, or confined-space work where repeat citations put the firm on OSHA's severe-injury or willful-violation radar at the six-figure-per-violation tier.
Multi-site programs where every new mobilization needs to inherit the same training roster, JSAs, and recordable-incident log so the program stays consistent — not rewritten per site.
Prime contractors managing locate-and-mark subcontractors who own the OSHA exposure on a project — and need a documented program to show their own client at handoff.
Two shapes, scaled to the OSHA workload
One-off compliance audit for a defined mobilization window; OSHA program retainer for firms with rolling capital work or repeat inspector exposure across quarters. Both shapes are scoped in the scope-boundary agreement — engagement economics are set there, not in published tiers.
- Pre-field assessment and exposure inventory (Areas 01–02)
- Written safety program + citation response pack handoff
- Mock-audit findings memo at engagement close
- Single closeout briefing
- Annual exposure inventory refreshed against the real workload
- Quarterly review cadence — keeps JSAs, training roster, and citation pack from drifting
- Mock-audit each quarter against the highest-exposure standards
- Priority response window for inspector visits and informal-conference filings
The OSHA-side documents
Scope and depth are confirmed in the scope-boundary agreement during pre-field preparation. Every closed OSHA engagement includes the documents below.
Current crew roster with certifications, refresh dates, and the competencies each role requires — so training gaps are visible before mobilization, not after an incident.
FormatPDF + spreadsheet (xlsx)
The 1926.20/1926.21 written program: SOPs, JSA templates, supervisor accountability, and the training cadence that satisfies OSHA documented-training requirements.
FormatPDF, with editable Word source
Three-year OSHA-recordable and DART review with corrective-action log, plus the citation response checklist — what to produce, in what order, on the day the inspector arrives.
FormatPDF, 8–14 pages
Findings from a mock audit against the firm's highest-exposure 1926/1910 standards, with owner, due date, and corrective path on each item — ready for the next quarterly review.
FormatPDF, 2–4 pages
OSHA exposure landscape at a glance
A one-page summary of the 29 CFR parts most often implicated in utility work and how the citation exposure stacks into the six-figure-per-violation tier. Useful ahead of a scope call, or to share inside the firm.
Covers 29 CFR 1926.651/652 excavations, 1926.95 PPE, 1926.20/21 safety programs, 1910.146 confined spaces, and 1910.269 electric power generation, transmission and distribution; written by the same SureTrace consulting team that runs the private-utility framework on the ground.
Scope the OSHA side of your engagement
Send us a brief outline of the workload and we'll come back within two business days with the scope-boundary agreement, the engagement shape, and the deliverable plan. Or download the OSHA exposure landscape PDF and circulate it inside the firm before mobilization.