Safety Training Consultants, Inc., Leader in Safety Training

Safety Program Management

(Preferred Customer Program)

The Safety Training Consultants, Inc. "Preferred Customer Program" has been designed to meet the needs of business and industry faced with today's unavoidable cost cutting requirements including reductions in personnel. Often, business and industry find that contracting for many services saves money, limits liability, and eases demands on already overburdened managers. Contracting for security, cleaning, maintenance, and numerous other services is common. Contracting for safety and/or environmental services is less common because most safety/environmental consultants realize they can make more money through contracting on a per job basis.

STC believes these services can be provided by contract in a manner that is extremely advantageous to the client. The general intent of the program is to provide companies with the benefits of a large, well trained, safety and environmental staff at a fraction of the cost of providing their own. STC will serve as the safety and/or environmental staff or we will supplement a staff that may be too small to meet all of a company's needs.

Based on a monthly contractual fee, STC will meet all or any part of the safety or environmental needs including assessments, initial training, maintenance of training, plan and program development, maintenance of plans and programs, record keeping, support to employee safety committees, liaison to outside agencies, preparation for OSHA or EPA inspections, representation in any hearing resulting from an OSHA or EPA inspection, accident/incident investigation, acquisition of permits, and other general safety/environmental related consulting. STC Preferred Customers receive prompt response to their needs including priority over other customers. This provides a nearly “seamless” provision of services, just as if we are part of the company.

As a client, you simply determine the scope of services desired and we negotiate a monthly contract fee. The contract is cancelable if, at any time, you become dissatisfied with it.

When a company reduces staff size, the professional safety/environmental staff is often high on the list. Unfortunately, this results in a severe increase in potential liability of which management may be unaware until an incident occurs. When a force reduction includes the professional safety/environmental staff, management usually makes one of three decisions:

1. Assign the safety/environmental duties to the Maintenance, Training, or HR Director. This is usually the “obvious” choice, overburdening an individual in an unrelated field with the responsibilities of safety. This typically results in neglect of safety and exposes the company to fines and potential civil penalties without the appropriate expertise to navigate the labyrinth of regulations that apply. In this case, a contract with STC to provide technical services while reporting to the above mentioned management representative who would serve as a safety/environmental manager rather than a technical specialist provides an excellent solution.

2. Eliminate safety/environmental staff. This is rare since most employers sincerely care about their employees' safety and do not wish to have large environmental fines levied against them. In a situation where an employee were killed or injured, it would certainly be seen as a willful or negligent act resulting in potential civil and/or criminal penalties. In this case, a contract with STC to provide complete safety/environmental services provides an excellent solution.

3. Reduce the safety/environmental staff to a point that those professionals remaining have no time to perform all of their statutory duties. These staff members then have to contract on an expensive project-by-project basis for help from outside consultants, or leave important projects undone which exposes employees to unnecessary safety hazards as well as the company to civil and/or criminal penalties. In this case, a contract with STC with a limited scope which merely provides the safety/environmental staff with the needed assistance would meet your needs.

STC provides training and consulting services designed to meet the needs of small, medium and larger industry (1000+ employees) that do not have a trained staff of safety specialists. STC will meet all or any part of the safety needs including assessments, initial training, maintenance of training, plan and program development, maintenance of plans and programs, record keeping, support to employee safety committees, liaison to outside agencies, preparation for an OSHA inspection, representation in any hearing resulting from an OSHA inspection, accident/incident investigation and other general safety/environmental related consulting. STC provides the equivalent of a professional staff in your organization without much of the expense.

Training Assessments & Accident/Incident Investigation

STC provides assessments of facilities and processes to determine training needs. It has been determined that over one hundred regulations require training. STC also provides experienced and effective investigation of accidents/incidents for determination of root cause, regulatory compliance and recommended corrective actions.