You have been told you need written safety programs. Below is the list reviewers expect, each with the standard it must be written against. No form, no email. If you only want the list, take it and go.
The exact set varies by hiring client and by the trades you self-identify during registration. This is the core an industrial or specialty trade contractor is normally 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 |
| Confined Space Entry | 1910.146 / 1926 Subpart AA |
| Excavation and Trenching | 1926 Subpart P |
| Personal Protective Equipment | 1910 Subpart I |
| Hearing Conservation | 1910.95 |
| Electrical Safety | 1910 Subpart S / 1926 Subpart K |
| Hot Work, Welding and Cutting | 1926 Subpart J |
| Injury and Illness Recordkeeping | Part 1904 |
| Emergency Action Plan | 1910.38 |
| Fire Prevention | 1910.39 |
| Bloodborne Pathogens | 1910.1030 |
| Powered Industrial Trucks | 1910.178 |
| Ladders and Stairways | 1926 Subpart X |
| Scaffolding | 1926 Subpart L |
| Crane, Hoisting and Rigging | 1926 Subpart CC |
| Incident Investigation | 1904.39 |
| Job Hazard Analysis | Employer program |
| Short Service Employee | Client requirement |
Short Service Employee is not an OSHA standard. There is no CFR citation for it. It is a hiring client requirement, and industrial clients treat its absence as a material finding. Almost no template pack includes one, so contractors who bought a pack discover the gap only when the submission comes back.
Here is 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.
You can buy pre-written programs for $20 to $30 a section. Sometimes they pass. When they come back, it is almost never because the safety content was wrong. It is one of these:
Twenty-one states and Puerto Rico run their own OSHA-approved plans covering private employers. If you work in one, a program citing only 29 CFR is incomplete and can be returned on that basis alone.
California is the clearest example. Cal/OSHA requires a written Injury and Illness Prevention Program under 8 CCR 3203, in addition to everything in the list above. A California submission without an IIPP is rejected no matter how good the other twenty documents are. Washington requires a written Accident Prevention Program under WAC 296-800-14005, and its construction fall protection triggers vary by activity — 4 feet for most walking and working surfaces, 6 for low-pitched roofing and leading edges, 10 for structural steel erection, plus a separate written fall protection work plan wherever a 10-foot hazard exists. Michigan issues its own Part standards, and citations to 29 CFR alone will not do.
A generic federal template pack does not know which state you are in. That is not a small detail — it is the difference between a submission that passes and one that does not.
The complete list of what a submission needs beyond the written programs — the questionnaire sections, the insurance thresholds hiring clients commonly set, the EMR and OSHA log requirements, and the rejection reasons above as a pre-submission checklist you can work through yourself.
One email with the checklist attached. We will tell you if your state changes the answer. You can reply STOP to anything and we stop.
If you have read this far you already know the shape of the problem. Two honest options:
Entirely possible. Budget ten to twenty weeks of evenings, expect two or three rounds of rejection while you learn what reviewers want, and write to your state plan if you are in one. The checklist above is genuinely enough to get there. Plenty of contractors do.
All twenty-plus programs written to your trade, your state and your stated operations. Questionnaire drafted from your intake answers and sent back 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.
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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.
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.