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Construction Safety Diagnostic

Your real records plus how your crews actually work. About 20–25 minutes. You get a 0–100 score, a maturity level, red flags and plain next steps.

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Not a legal or compliance audit. This is a self-assessment for planning. It is not an OSHA inspection, a certification, legal advice, or a prediction of inspection results, and it does not replace a site walk. It describes the organization, not individuals. Using it does not create a consulting relationship.

  1. 1 Profile
  2. 2 Records
  3. 3 Programs & training
  4. 4 Culture (42)
  5. 5 Results

Company profile

OSHA 300A, last 3 years

Use your 300A summary totals. G = deaths, H = days-away cases, I = job transfer/restriction cases, J = other recordable cases. Leave a year blank if you don't have it. Rates use the OSHA/BLS formula: cases × 200,000 ÷ hours.

YearTotal hours workedG deathsH days awayI restrictedJ other
2023
2024
2025

Optional: load a CSV with columns year,hours,G,H,I,J. It is read in your browser only. Remove employee names and any medical details first; the tool never needs them.

Fatalities and severe injuries

EMR (experience mod)

Optional but encouraged. Missing EMR is left out of the score, not counted against you.

OSHA citations, last 3 years

Look yourself up on the OSHA Establishment Search and enter counts here. Contested or deleted citations are shown but not deducted. Enter 0 if none.

TypeCount
Serious
Willful
Repeat
Other-than-serious
Failure to abate
Still open / not yet abated (any type)
Contested or deleted (not deducted)

Leading indicators (optional)

If you don't track any of these, this part scores 0. Not tracking them is the finding.

Written programs

Focus Four programs count double. Mark "Not applicable" only if you never do that kind of work.

ProgramStatus
Fall protection + rescue plan Focus Four
Struck-by: traffic control and rigging Focus Four
Caught-in: excavation / trenching Focus Four
Electrical: GFCI / assured grounding + LOTO Focus Four
HazCom
Silica exposure control plan (1926.1153)
Scaffolds
Ladders
Cranes / rigging
Heat illness
Emergency action
PPE
Respiratory

Training

Subcontractor management

Leadership and resources (optional)

Culture questions

35 statements and 7 evidence questions across 7 areas. Answer for what actually happens on your sites, not what the manual says.

0 Doesn't happen / don't know · 1 Happens after something goes wrong · 2 Written down, depends on the person · 3 Done consistently, checked by supervisors · 4 Crews drive it; we measure and improve it

Evidence caps each area: None → max 50, Verbal only → max 70, Document exists → max 90, Document + recent record → no cap. Claims need proof.

D1 · Leadership & accountability

1. Owners and PMs visit active sites specifically to talk safety (not schedule) at least monthly.

2. Safety performance affects supervisor reviews and bonuses, and it's more than injury counts.

3. Scenario: the job is two days behind and the crane pick needs a lift plan the super hasn't finished. On our jobs, the pick waits until the plan is done.

4. Leaders publicly back a worker who stopped work, even when it cost time.

5. Safety gets real budget and people when a job needs it, without a fight.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Last 3 site-visit notes, or a sample supervisor review form.)

D2 · Planning & pre-task hazard control

1. Crews complete a pre-task plan/JHA before each new task, not once a week.

2. Plans are changed when conditions change mid-shift.

3. Scenario: a new sub shows up with a task not on the plan. The work waits until it is planned and reviewed.

4. Supervisors review the plan with the crew. They don't just collect signatures.

5. High-risk tasks (hot work, confined space, energized work, critical lifts) need a permit or sign-off before they start.

Evidence: what could you show me? (3 recent pre-task plans from different crews.)

D3 · Falls & struck-by (Focus Four) Focus Four ×1.5

1. Fall protection is planned before work at 6 ft+ starts (anchor points, rescue plan).

2. A competent person inspects scaffolds and ladders at required intervals.

3. Traffic control and worker-equipment separation are planned for every site with moving equipment.

4. Scenario: a roofer says the tie-off point "slows him down." The foreman stops the work and fixes the setup, not the rule.

5. Overhead work and rigging have exclusion zones.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Fall rescue plan, scaffold inspection tags or log.)

D4 · Caught-in/between & electrical (Focus Four) Focus Four ×1.5

1. No one enters a trench 5 ft+ without protective systems and a competent-person inspection that day.

2. LOTO / energy control is used for equipment maintenance on site.

3. GFCI or assured grounding is in place and checked.

4. Scenario: an excavator operator wants a laborer to "hop in quick" to check a pipe. Nobody goes in until the trench is protected.

5. Power lines are identified and clearances are planned.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Trench inspection log, LOTO procedure.)

D5 · Reporting, learning & near misses

1. Workers report near misses without fear of blame.

2. Every recordable gets a root-cause review that goes past "worker error."

3. Lessons from incidents reach other crews within a week.

4. Scenario: a foreman hides a minor cut to keep the "days without" sign. We would find out, and we'd fix the reason he hid it.

5. Corrective actions have an owner and a due date, and they get closed.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Last near-miss report and its corrective action.)

D6 · Competence & training

1. Training is checked by watching people do the task, not just by sign-in sheets.

2. Competent persons are named for each site and crews know who they are.

3. New hires and short-service workers are identified and mentored (sticker or buddy system).

4. Supervisors are trained to lead safety conversations, not just enforce rules.

5. Equipment operators (cranes, forklifts, aerial lifts, excavators) are evaluated on the machine before they run it alone.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Competent-person roster, a new-hire orientation record.)

D7 · Subcontractor & workforce engagement

1. Subs are prequalified on safety, not just price.

2. Sub crews follow the same pre-task process as ours.

3. Workers have real input into how hazards are controlled.

4. Scenario: a low-bid sub has an EMR of 1.4 and no written fall program. We don't award the work until that's fixed.

5. Workers can stop work, and it has actually happened this year.

Evidence: what could you show me? (Prequalification form, a stop-work record.)

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Not a legal or compliance audit. Self-reported planning tool. Not an OSHA inspection, certification or legal advice. BLS rates are survey estimates and are known to undercount. Benchmarks: TRC (total recordable cases) and DART rates per 100 full-time workers (200,000-hour base) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses 2024, Table 1. Your inputs come from your OSHA Form 300A.

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How the score works (our method, published in full)

Overall = 50% records + 50% culture, then red-flag caps, then a records-vs-culture gap check.

Records (0–100): TRIR vs BLS benchmark 20 · DART vs benchmark 15 · EMR 10 · Citations 15 · Written programs 15 · Training 10 · Leading indicators 10 · Subcontractor management 5. Rate curve: your rate ÷ benchmark ≤ 0.5 → 100, 1.0 → 60, ≥ 2.0 → 0. EMR: ≤ 0.80 → 100, 1.00 → 60, ≥ 1.25 → 0. Citations start at 100: −15 serious, −30 willful or repeat, −10 other, −20 failure to abate. Missing optional items are left out and the weights re-balance. Under 200,000 hours a year, rates are pooled across the 3 years.

Culture (0–100): area score = average answer × 25, capped by evidence. Falls/struck-by and caught-in/electrical count 1.5×.

Levels: 1 Reactive 0–39 · 2 Compliant-on-paper 40–59 · 3 Managed 60–74 · 4 Proactive 75–89 · 5 Crew-owned 90–100.

Red flags: a fatality, or any willful or repeat citation, caps you at Level 2. TRIR or DART at 2× benchmark or more caps you at Level 3. Missing Focus Four programs cap that culture area at 50. Open citations, a missing fall rescue plan, and EMR ≥ 1.25 are always flagged.