Avetta safety programs: what the review actually scores, and the step most contractors get wrong before they upload anything

Avetta is not ISNetworld with a different logo. The documents overlap heavily; the way they are judged does not. If you are preparing an Avetta profile, the difference below is worth ten minutes.

The difference that matters

ISNetworld grades your written programs individually. Its review service reads each document and returns it marked, so you find out which specific program failed and why.

Avetta works from a composite picture. Your programs, insurance certificates, incident history, EMR and training records are assessed together against the configuration your hiring client has set. Two consequences follow, and both surprise people:

The same profile can pass for one client and fail for another. Each hiring client sets its own requirements and thresholds. There is no single Avetta standard to clear.
Incomplete is treated as failed, not as partial credit. A profile missing one section does not score lower; it sits unfinished until the section is filled.

And the step that decides everything, before you upload a single document

Work-type selection. At registration you choose the categories describing what you do. Those categories determine which programs and training records are then demanded of you.

Choose too narrowly and your submission is judged against a scope that does not match the work the client actually hired you for. Choose too broadly and you are suddenly required to produce confined space, excavation and crane programs for work you never perform — and you will either write documents you do not need or leave gaps that read as missing.

This is the most common unforced error in an Avetta registration, and it happens in the first five minutes, before anyone has thought about safety programs at all.

The written programs normally required

The exact set is driven by your work types and your client's configuration. This is the core an industrial or specialty trade contractor is typically asked for.

Written program	Written against
Hazard Communication	1910.1200
Fall Protection	1926 Subpart M
Control of Hazardous Energy (LOTO)	1910.147
Respiratory Protection	1910.134
Personal Protective Equipment	1910 Subpart I / 1926.95
Confined Space Entry	1910.146 / 1926 Subpart AA
Excavation and Trenching	1926 Subpart P
Electrical Safety	1910 Subpart S / 1926 Subpart K
Hearing Conservation	1910.95
Injury and Illness Recordkeeping	Part 1904
Emergency Action Plan	1910.38
Injury and Illness Prevention Program	See note below

The IIPP line is not a mistake

Avetta requirement sets frequently ask for an Injury and Illness Prevention Program by name, including for contractors who have never worked in California. It is a legal requirement in California under 8 CCR 3203; elsewhere it appears because the hiring client asked for it, not because a federal standard compels it.

Federal template packs do not include one. If your client's configuration asks for an IIPP and you submit twenty perfectly good federal programs without it, the profile stays incomplete.

What an IIPP has to contain, element by element

See a real one

A complete Hazard Communication Program as we deliver it — document control block, responsibilities matrix, training frequencies in a table, retention periods with the citation that sets each one, revision history and a management signature block. Client details removed. Five pages.

Download the sample program (PDF)

No form. No email. Read it and compare it against whatever you are currently considering.

Why Avetta profiles stall

When a profile sits unapproved, it is rarely the safety content. In rough order of frequency:

Wrong work types. See above. The documents are judged against the wrong scope.
Generic programs. No company name, no named responsible person, no procedures that describe how you work. A boilerplate document is visible as boilerplate.
Insurance gaps. A lapsed certificate, a missing additional-insured endorsement, or limits below the client's minimum. $1M per occurrence and $2M aggregate on general liability is a common floor, and some sites require more.
An elevated TRIR or EMR with no narrative. Rates above your industry average are not automatically disqualifying, but submitted bare they read as an unaddressed problem. What changes the reading is a written account of what you did about it.
Expired training records. Recency requirements vary by client and are easy to miss.
Slow responses to reviewer requests. The clock keeps running while a request sits unanswered.

If you work in a state-plan state, add one more

Twenty-one states and Puerto Rico run their own OSHA-approved plans with their own standards. A program citing only 29 CFR is incomplete in those jurisdictions, and a reviewer can return it on that basis alone. California, Washington and Michigan are the ones that catch people most often.

Which states, and what each one adds

One more thing worth knowing

There is no reciprocity between platforms. Being qualified in ISNetworld does nothing for your Avetta profile and vice versa. The underlying documents transfer; the registration, the questionnaire and the review do not. If two of your customers use different platforms, that is two profiles to build and two to keep current.

Or have it done

$795, flat

All twenty-plus programs written to your trade, your state and your stated operations. Questionnaire drafted from your intake answers and returned to you for sign-off. Uploaded, submitted, and every rejection handled until your grade passes. Then $129 a month keeps it passing — documents refreshed before they expire, OSHA 300A each year, insurance and EMR letters updated.

Passing grade or your money back, provided the information you give us is accurate and your insurance limits and EMR meet your customer's published thresholds. We check both before you pay anything.

Run the free 2-minute check first

It tells you whether you can pass and what it costs, before any money changes hands. If your EMR or your limits will fail regardless of paperwork, we tell you that instead of taking the $795.

One thing we will not do

We will not write a program describing safety practices you do not actually follow. The questionnaire asks factual questions about your operations, and the answers go to a customer relying on them for site access. We draft from what you tell us and send it back for your sign-off. If you want a document that says something untrue, buy a template.

ISNetworld safety programsWhat RAVS reviewers expect, program by program, and the six reasons template packs come back.
California IIPP for contractorsEvery California employer needs a written IIPP under 8 CCR 3203. The required elements, the records, and the small-employer exceptions.
State OSHA plansTwenty-one states and Puerto Rico run their own plans. A federal-only template is incomplete in all of them.
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