In a time when most consultants sell off the shelf products without regards to how well they operate within the organization, Safety Links works with their Partners to efficiently incorporate safety into their daily routine and company culture. As a result, Safety Links has become an industry leader that is known for using the most innovative safety management solutions.

Would you hire a doctor, engineer, or even an accountant with only 40-hours of training?  To be qualified in their respective field, these professionals have formal education, years of experience, and are board certified by their peers. You will be surprised to know that other than a 40-hour OSHA certificate, many safety consultants have no formal education or experience in safety or business management. Our safety coaches on the other hand, hold advanced degrees in management in addition to safety. Furthermore, our coaches are Board Certified Safety Professionals, and/ or Certified Safety and Health Technologists. Our partners can take advantage of our comprehensive knowledge and experience to reduce their risks and to improve their overall business model.

Our Safety Coaches will be your single point of contact. They will meet with you, provide you with advice, and consistently check up on you. This customer driven focus will build strong relationships while demonstrating a high level of customer service and professionalism.

Most consultants are quick to prove how much they know bout OSHA. They talk about OSHA code, use OSHA phrases like “shall”, and even write safety manuals that sound like OSHA wrote them. Our Safety Coaches realize that this approach to safety management offers very little value to our partners. After all, if you wanted to read OSHA code, why wouldn’t you just read the code?  Our philosophy is to keep it simple! We develop user friendly guides that eliminate interpretation. We know that the easier your system is to follow the more likely it will succeed. 
We offer business management solutions that are incorporated into your company’s culture. Using this type of approach you will view “compliance” as a minimum. 

Most consultants offer limited number of services leaving you jumping between multiple providers. Our Safety Coaches offer all inclusive solutions to your problems. Whether you need assistance with high level strategic planning, or you just need an employee trained in first aid we will be there for you. As an added benefit, our partners include local vendors who have agreed to provide you with the best possible pricing when it comes to safety supplies, fire extinguisher servicing, equipment rental, and so on. In several cases our customers have stated that the discounts they received from our partners saved them hundreds and even thousands of dollars. We encourage all of our partners to take advantage of these valuable resources.

We don’t just assure “improvement on insurance and compensation premiums”. We declare real cost savings that that you will use to enhance your competitiveness. These savings not only include reduced injury costs, they also include increased efficiency, and higher employee moral.

I know what you are thinking. We get a personalized Safety Coach, custom programs, modern training….. It sounds expensive! You will be surprised to find that our prices are extremely competitive because of our low overhead. Our Safety Coaches are able to work with you to develop site specific plans and to create custom materials and programs for the cost of other consultant’s boiler plate programs. We know that our commitment to value will ensure that you are our customer for life.

We realize that in the absence of value any dollar spent is a dollar too much. Our customers perceive our coaching as an "added value" and when implemented properly our recommendations provide cost savings and professional impressions. We offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee and we will strive to provide you with outstanding value.

While many consultants sell “off the shelf” programs without regards to how difficult they will be to operate within your organization, we strongly believe that any system needs to be efficiently incorporated into your organizations daily routine and must reflect your style of management. Ironically our custom development costs are most often lower than other consultants templated programs.

Many safety providers and safety councils do not employ any safety staff or instructors. They simply act as middle men between the customer and the third party consultant. Safety Links is different. All of our work is done by our in-house Safety Coaches.  This has allowed us to limit the costs of our services, to foster affective lines of communication with our partners, and to maintain our strong commitment to you.

Our Safety Coaches always recommend that you utilize the loss control services from your insurance company. These services vary depending upon your overall premium, size, and risk potential. They often include periodic site visits, meetings, basic program development, and even industrial hygiene.

There is however a number of limitations to the services provided by most insurance companies. The obvious limitation is the amount of time available for each customer. This time constraint often focuses loss control staff towards high loss events--such as fires and other catastrophes--rather than your day-to-day tasks. Also the written programs they provide are templated and do not usually take into account your company’s unique operational and cultural characteristics. For that reason these programs usually end up as part of your “Safety Manual” rather than being incorporated into your business system. Sound familiar?

Another limitation with many of their services (including industrial hygiene) is that their strategies provide only a preliminary assessment and do very little to truly justify your workers actual level of exposure.
Our Safety Coaches are not intended to be a substitute for an insurance company’s loss prevention activities. In fact, we will work with your insurance company’s loss control staff to help identify and control the day-to-day risks of your organization while simultaneously improving your internal safety efforts.

The OSHA consultation definitely has its place in the Safety Consultation world (especially for small companies) however, before you use these services there is one thing you need to be aware of.

Although the consultation program is technically separate from the enforcement program you will have the obligation “to commit yourself to correcting serious job safety and health hazards….in a timely manner”. Moreover “if you fail to eliminate or control identified serious hazards…the situation must be referred from consultation to an OSHA enforcement office for appropriate action”.  Source: http://www.osha.gov/dcsp/smallbusiness/consult.html

Although Safety Links ultimately wants you to correct serious hazards, we will work with you to identify and prioritize your issues so that they can be controlled in the most feasible timetable. If for some reason you are not willing to correct the hazard your safety coach will maintain the strictest confidentially and will never notify OSHA.