Training requirements set by trade, crew and site
Construction training is not one list. Operators need one set of training, the people in the trench need another, and the new hire needs orientation before either. In EmployerSafety you set each requirement once and scope it to a job title, a department, a location or one person. Fall protection for every job title that leaves the ground. Excavation competent-person training for the crew that opens the trench. Silica awareness for the masons.
From then on every employee shows against the requirements that apply to them: current, due soon, overdue or missing, with the record behind the status. The dashboard opens on who needs attention today, and the training status page exports to a file when a general contractor wants the roster before mobilization.
Jobsite sign-in sheets become records
Most construction training happens at the tailgate and is recorded on a sheet that goes in a truck. EmployerSafety treats that sheet as evidence. Plan the session, assign the crew, hold the talk, and photograph the sheet. The assistant reads the names and proposes attendees. A person checks the rows and approves. Completing the session writes one dated training record per attendee, with the sheet attached. Nothing is recorded until someone approves it. The toolbox talk page walks through it.
Certifications with expiration dates
Operator cards, rigger and signal person qualifications, first aid and CPR, OSHA 10 and 30 cards, competent-person designations. Each is a credential with an expiration date, the certificate attached, and a status of current, expiring within 30 days, expired or no expiration recorded. The administrator gets a daily or weekly digest of what is coming due. Employees see their own cards. See certification tracking for the detail.
The written programs OSHA expects of a contractor
Answer a short company profile and the gap analysis names the written programs your work calls for and which you are missing. The gap analysis knows the programs that come up on construction work, among them fall protection, excavation, scaffolds, ladders, crane and rigging, hot work, confined space, silica and hazard communication. Templates are included for the most common of them: fall protection plan, excavation safety, ladder safety, confined space, hazard communication, PPE hazard assessment, lockout and tagout, emergency action plan, fire prevention, new-hire orientation and a general safety and health program. Draft from a template, review, approve, activate. Active programs are what the assistant cites back to your crew, and employees can acknowledge them. The document management page covers the lifecycle.
Programs you already have on paper come in through the import. Upload the PDF, the text is read, and the program lands as a draft for review rather than being retyped.
An assistant that cites the regulation
Ask in plain language. Questions about your people are answered from your records, and each line is marked as a company record. Questions about what the standard requires are answered from the official text of the OSHA sections in the corpus, construction and general industry, with every citation linked to the exact passage on osha.gov. A citation appears only when the text is in the corpus; when the records or the corpus do not say, the assistant says so. The sources page lists what is covered.
Built for more than one company and more than one role
Every organization is isolated at the database. Administrators, safety professionals, supervisors and employees each see what their role allows, and administrators and supervisors are unlimited at every price. Certificates and sign-in sheets are stored privately and handed out through short-lived links. Exports stay available if a subscription lapses, so the records are yours either way.
What it does not do
- It does not deliver training courses, videos or OSHA 10 and 30 classes.
- It does not file anything with OSHA or any state plan.
- It does not decide that a site, a person or an activity is compliant. It keeps the records and shows the sources so that a qualified person can.
- It does not verify a certificate with the issuing body. It stores what you upload and tracks the date on it.
- Incident reporting, near-miss logs and corrective-action tracking are planned after the first customers, not before.
When not to buy EmployerSafety
- You have fewer than ten workers and one trade. A binder and a calendar reminder will do, and the price is not worth it.
- You need the training itself. Buy the course first; this records that it happened.
- Your general contractor requires a specific prequalification platform. That obligation does not go away, and this does not replace it.
- You want a tool that promises compliance. Nothing here promises that, on purpose.