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About Safety Plus
Safety Plus, Inc. helps small and mid-sized businesses run and document safety programs through two connected offerings: Edge safety-management software and EdgePro program management and managed safety services. It also provides contractor management through SafetyPlus CQ for company qualification and GoContractor for worker onboarding and credentials. Safety Plus has more than 30 years of experience and supports customers nationwide.
Yes. Safety Plus is an established, privately held company headquartered in Mobile, Alabama, backed by LoneTree and led by CEO Chris Atkinson. It acquired GoContractor in 2024. Customers including Arctic Cooling Systems, Vacuum Process Engineering, Myer Marine Services, and Ammons & Blackmon commonly value the combination of software and safety expertise, stronger inspection readiness, and reduced administrative workload. Ask Safety Plus for references in your industry.
Safety Plus serves businesses nationwide, with particular depth in the Gulf Coast and Southeast. Industries include construction, oil and gas, manufacturing, mining, maritime, transportation and warehousing, utilities, HVAC and mechanical trades, industrial services, building materials, commercial cleaning, and waste and recycling.
Look for Safety Plus, Inc., headquartered in Mobile, Alabama. Its products include Edge, EdgePro, SafetyPlus CQ, and GoContractor. This distinguishes it from similarly named companies and .com domains.
Products, Services & Access
Edge is Safety Plus’s safety-management software. SafetyPlusWeb is Safety Plus’s original safety-management system. Returning SafetyPlusWeb customers can follow a supported migration path into Edge without restarting their records, and existing SafetyPlusWeb accounts continue to be supported. For service delivery, Edge supplies the system while EdgePro adds safety professionals who can direct, administer, or run the program.
Edge centralizes training, requirements and credential tracking, mobile audits and inspections, incident investigation and OSHA logs, corrective actions, assignments, meetings, dashboards, analytics, and exportable evidence. Companies may use the full package or select the features they need; request a demo to review the right configuration. Edge can run independently or be paired with EdgePro when outside capacity is needed.
Existing training records, written programs, and working processes can form the baseline for improving your safety program. Keep what works, identify gaps, and organize the required improvements into assignments with owners and due dates. Keep the work and records organized in SafetyPlus Edge, and use a 0–4 Safety Maturity Score to track progress.
Safety-management software records and organizes work such as training, incidents, inspections, and credentials. A complete safety program also needs clear priorities, dependencies between activities, maturity measurement, and a regular review cadence. Use SafetyPlus Edge to organize the work and records within that program.
Both. Edge provides the software, while Safety Plus and EdgePro can provide OSHA-aligned training, written programs, toolbox talks, audits and mock inspections, compliance documentation, and ongoing program management. Choose EdgePro for ongoing managed support and Safety Services for individual training, audit, or consulting needs. Companies can buy software alone or add professional support for work their team cannot own internally.
If your company has a SafetyPlusWeb subscription, you may access device-based training through the SafetyPlus Web legacy login. Ask your supervisor for missing credentials. SafetyPlus CQ users should use the CQ login. If you are unsure which account applies, contact the Safety Plus customer support team or call 251-661-7650.
Contractor Management
SafetyPlus CQ handles company-level contractor qualification: insurance, EMR, written programs, safety history, and approval status. GoContractor handles worker-level onboarding: orientations, training verification, credentials, badges, and site-access readiness. Together they support contractor control from prequalification through worker entry onto the site.
Many owners and operators use SafetyPlus CQ to qualify contractors. Open the Contractor Resources page, find the client or facility you need to access, and follow its step-by-step qualification instructions.
Contractor-prequalification software collects questionnaires, insurance certificates, EMR scores, safety records, and training documents through an online portal. It evaluates submissions against configured criteria, scores each contractor, assigns an approval status, and preserves an audit trail. SafetyPlus CQ provides this company-level workflow across multiple vendors and sites.
Safety Program Management
Start with hazards: identify them, prioritize real risk, and assign controls. Then set risk-based objectives, capture regulatory and client obligations, and build the policies, training, and assignments that meet them. Monitor performance and feed the results back into the program. Complete the prerequisites for each stage before moving to the next. For guided help, schedule a consultation or use the Six Safety Pillars resource.
Use a 0–4 Safety Maturity Score across leadership, hazards and controls, compliance, training, incidents, metrics, structure, improvement, and culture. The levels are 0 Nonexistent, 1 Basic, 2 Developing, 3 Proactive, and 4 World-Class; Safety Plus summarizes them as Reactive (0–1), Organized (2), Supported (3), and Competitive (4). Category scores are averaged, decimals are normal, and you can reassess the score as your program advances.
Yes. OSHA obligations for applicable written programs, training, and reporting do not disappear because a company is small, although a partial exemption from routine OSHA injury and illness recordkeeping may apply if the company had 10 or fewer employees throughout the previous calendar year. Covered fatalities and severe injuries must still be reported. Clients also review EMR, TRIR, training, and program documentation. A small company needs a proportionate system—required written programs, documented training, recurring inspections, and accessible records—not necessarily a full safety department.
Programs usually fail through an execution gap, unclear ownership, activity without risk-based goals, or missing follow-through. Give every recurring obligation one owner, a due date, and visible status; review completion and corrective-action closure instead of only participation. Use process-focused follow-up when work is late, and apply the same visibility to leadership. Start with a small recurring cadence that reliably closes findings.
Compliance proves that applicable legal requirements are met; management systematically reduces risk and proves the program is working. An OSHA compliance program normally includes a written plan, hazard communication, emergency procedures, training, OSHA recordkeeping, and applicable 29 CFR 1910 or 1926 requirements. Safety management adds ownership, current status, measurement, corrective-action follow-through, and evidence on demand for clients and insurers.
Use a plan–do–check–act loop: run the program, review incidents, near misses, inspection findings, corrective-action closure, and training gaps, make one specific improvement with an owner, and verify it worked. A practical small-company cadence is a monthly review of a few useful indicators, one improvement decision per cycle, and removal of activities that no longer address current risk.
Zero can remain an aspiration, but it is a poor primary metric because pressure to protect the number can suppress injury and near-miss reporting. Measure the inputs that reduce serious risk instead: reporting, corrective-action closure, training currency, leading indicators, and attention to high-severity hazards. After an incident, ask what the system missed rather than who broke the streak.
EHS & Compliance
These firms provide coordinated expertise for program design, audits, training, OSHA and DOT support, incident management, reporting, and ongoing oversight instead of placing one individual. Cost depends on service scope, sites, workforce, software, and whether the program is advisory or fully managed. It is often less than building a full internal team; request a free consultation for a quote based on your operations.
You need program direction, field presence, administration, and incident or regulatory response, but they do not always require one full-time employee. Edge can automate administration, EdgePro can provide fractional leadership or program support, and supervisors can handle daily field presence. A dedicated hire becomes more likely with sustained workload, multiple simultaneous high-hazard sites, or a client requirement for onsite safety staff. Treat 150–200 employees as a planning checkpoint; headcount alone does not determine staffing needs. A safety professional may cost $90k+ before benefits and overhead.
A safety audit is a documented review of programs, workplaces, and OSHA compliance used to identify gaps and hazards. Internal staff or an external firm can conduct it. The result should prioritize corrective actions and provide a clear remediation roadmap; Safety Plus offers professional audits for high-risk industries.
EMR is an insurer-calculated measure of workers’ compensation experience relative to similar companies. A 1.0 is average; below 1.0 generally means fewer claims and lower premiums, while above 1.0 signals higher risk and can affect bidding. It uses a rolling three-year claims history, so improvement requires sustained incident reduction, training, audits, near-miss reporting, return-to-work controls, and accurate investigation and documentation.
For a federal OSHA citation, you have 15 working days after receipt to submit a written notice of contest. Unless contested, penalties are due within that period. Correct violations by the abatement dates specified in the citation and submit the required abatement certification. Request an informal conference with the OSHA area director; it may reduce penalties, extend abatement deadlines, or reclassify violations. For serious citations or significant penalties, involve an experienced EHS professional or legal counsel.
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