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Built for the Safety Director whose firm runs projects in six states under 22 state OSHA plans plus federal — and a recordability call that has to be defensible eighteen months later.

Construction EHS lives in the gap between the project trailer and the corporate office — between OSHA 1926 specifics, multi-state recordkeeping, the hazard→control→corrective-action lifecycle that determines whether a known risk turns into a repeat injury, the subcontractor-incident category that determines whose books a sub's injury lands on, and the mobile-first reality of supervisors who don't sit at desks. The five pain points below show how SE addresses each, plus a section at the bottom on what we're building next for construction.

Five pains, five answers

What SE actually changes about your year.

Pain 01

Multi-state OSHA recordkeeping that doesn't add up.

A project in Texas. Another in Ohio. Three more in California, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Each state plan has its own Form 300 quirks, its own FROI form and filing window, its own posting requirements. Year-end your team reconciles the federal OSHA roll-up against five sets of state-plan exports and prays the numbers line up.

SE's answer

One platform, every state's variant — resolved per establishment.

SE's state-plan registry covers all 29 US OSHA jurisdictions — 22 state plans covering private + public employers plus 7 public-employee-only plans — alongside federal OSHA. Each Establishment carries its jurisdiction; the Recordability Wizard knows which 1904.7 variant applies; Form 300 / 300A / 301 emit the right version automatically. The Cal/OSHA Form 5020 variant ships as a first-class peer to federal Form 300A. 1904.39 severe-injury reporting fires the 8-hour and 24-hour countdowns and routes to the right OSHA Area Office across 10 federal regions + every state.

Annual ITA submission (29 CFR 1904.41) lands electronically each March from the canonical incident records — no parallel data entry into OSHA's portal. The annual Form 300A posting cycle (29 CFR 1904.32) renders the summary from the same data layer. Plus Netherlands Arbeidsinspectie + UK HSE coverage for the international establishments that fall outside the US OSHA cascade.

22+7 US state plans + federal
Form 300 variant resolved per Establishment via jurisdiction dispatch.
ITA + 300A + severe-injury
1904.41 electronic submission + 1904.32 annual posting + 1904.39 countdowns.

Pain 02

You logged the hazard. The control got assigned. Then the incident happened anyway.

The supervisor flagged the unprotected leading edge in last Tuesday's toolbox talk. Someone wrote down "install guardrail" on the back of a clipboard. Two weeks later a labourer steps off the second floor. At the OSHA investigation the inspector asks: "When was the hazard identified? Who was assigned the control? Why wasn't it implemented before the incident?" — and your team scrambles to reconstruct the trail from three spreadsheets and a foreman's memory.

SE's answer

Hazard → control → corrective-action lifecycle, with closure-gating.

Hazards captured via mobile + photo + GPS land in a 5×5 ALARP-aligned risk matrix. The hierarchy of controls is modelled as per-control entities with a forward-only lifecycle — Elimination, Substitution, Engineering, Administrative, PPE — and a hazard can't be resolved until at least one control is Verified. Extreme-tier hazards (score ≥ 17) surface an "RCA Recommended" banner before an incident has happened. The Construction IndustryPack pre-seeds 10 construction-specific hazard categories — Falls from Heights, Excavation Collapse, Crane / Lifting, Falling Objects, Scaffolding, Power Tools, Heavy Equipment, Trenching, Concrete Pour, Demolition — on top of the 22 universal categories.

When an incident does fire, the recordability cascade pulls the hazard history forward: the matched hazard, its controls, their verification state at the time. Root-cause analysis via 5-Whys or Fishbone attaches to both the incident and the originating hazard. Corrective actions track to completion and gate incident closure — an incident with open corrective actions stays open. The investigator question "when was this hazard identified and why wasn't it controlled" answers itself from the platform's audit trail.

Pain 03

A sub's worker gets hurt at your site. Whose books does it land on?

29 CFR 1904.31 says a recordable injury or illness is recorded on the books of the establishment that supervised the injured worker's day-to-day activities — not necessarily the worker's actual employer. On a construction site that line is thin: the general contractor coordinates the schedule, the subcontractor employs the worker, the recordability call has cost + audit implications. The wrong determination today is a Form 300 audit finding tomorrow.

SE's answer

A first-class Subcontractor Incident category in the IndustryPack.

The Construction IndustryPack pre-seeds a Subcontractor Incident category alongside the construction-specific hazard set. Capturing the incident under that category records the supervising employer + the subcontractor's employer name + the work-coordination context — so the 1904.31 determination is documented at intake rather than reconstructed from memory at audit. Every state-plan jurisdiction that recognises a parallel rule gets the same shape; international jurisdictions (NL / UK) capture the local-equivalent under the same entity.

The subcontractor-management surface is now live: a contractor roster with approval status and certificate-of-insurance documents, scored pre-qualification, per-worker rosters that track each worker's certifications and licences (OSHA 10/30, CDL, and the rest — with the same expiry alerts your own employees get), site-access clearances per site and window, and on-site field audits. Workers can be invited to a read-only self-service portal to see their own profile, credentials, and cleared sites. Still on the roadmap: letting contractors update their own records from that portal, and proof-of-coverage exports to a general contractor's portal.

Pain 04

Your superintendents don't sit at desks.

Field reporting reality: a super walks into the trailer at 5 PM, finds a stack of yellow tickets and a tablet that won't connect, and has to enter the day's near-misses, observations, and one minor injury before he can go home. He's tired. The data quality reflects it. The injury report arrives in your inbox the next morning, missing fields the carrier will ask about.

SE's answer

Mobile-first capture meets the supt where the work is.

Mobile-optimised hazard reporting with photo + GPS pinning. Mobile observation capture against per-tenant Work Observation Item templates (the supervisor's audit ticket is a structured form, not a free-text field that misses the data the inspector wants). PWA support with offline data caching so a remote site without cell service still records every observation; queued changes sync when connectivity returns. The construction-specific incident wizard surfaces the right form per the project's NAICS + jurisdiction — 1926 versus 1910 derivation flows from the Establishment, not from supervisor judgment in the moment.

The platform meets superintendents where they are; the trailer's only job is end-of-week review. AI-assisted intake — voice dictation and audio-to-structured-fields transcription — is on the roadmap, building on the shipped mobile, offline, photo, and GPS layer.

Pain 05

1926 vs 1910 — and an inspector who doesn't accept "I thought".

Construction is OSHA 1926. Except where it's not. Mixed-use sites, shop work, equipment maintenance off a project — the standard that applies isn't always obvious, and the wrong recordability classification ends up on Form 300 where an inspector will catch it eighteen months later. The first-pass call usually comes from a superintendent who's done this for ten years; the second-guess comes from a carrier auditor who didn't.

SE's answer

Recordability codified — 1904.7 cascade with cited reasoning, audit-defensible overrides.

SE's Recordability Wizard codifies 29 CFR 1904.7 as a 6-step decision tree with cited reasoning on each branch. The right OSHA standard (1926 or 1910) flows from the Establishment's industry classification (NAICS code) — set per project at onboarding. Overrides are written-justification-required and audit-trailed; an inspector eighteen months later sees the determination, the cited regulation, and the override reasoning in one view.

DART vs. other-recordable classification flows automatically into Form 300. Lost-time day counting respects OSHA's max-180 rule. Severe-injury reporting countdowns under 1904.39 fire on hospitalizations, amputations, and fatalities. ITA submission lands the records electronically each March (29 CFR 1904.41). The 1904.31 supervising-employer rule for subcontractor incidents is captured at intake via the Subcontractor Incident category (see Pain 03); a fully-automated 1904.31(b) day-to-day-supervision predicate that pre-fills the determination is on the roadmap.

Designed for the buyer

If you're the Safety Director at a mid-size construction firm, SE looks like this.

Your shape

  • 5 to 50 active projects, often across 3 or more states.
  • 500 to 5,000 W-2 employees plus 2,000 to 10,000 subcontractor workers.
  • $50M to $1B annual revenue.
  • Fleet of 100+ pieces of heavy equipment.
  • Workers' comp policy renewal is a meaningful annual event; EMR drives bid competitiveness.

Your team

  • VP Safety or Safety Director (corporate).
  • Per-region or per-project safety managers.
  • Project superintendents (front-line incident + observation capture).
  • HR Director and Risk Manager.
  • Insurance broker on retainer for workers' comp + GL.

Your year

  • State FROI windows — varies by state (3 to 14 days).
  • OSHA 300A annual posting cycle (Feb 1 – Apr 30).
  • ITA submission window (Mar 2).
  • Workers' comp policy renewal + EMR review.
  • Periodic safety audits per major-client requirement (typically quarterly).

Day in the Life

Read Frank's day → A long-form Day-in-the-Life walking through what a construction Safety Director at the fictional Cornerstone Construction (14 active projects across 6 states, 2,200 employees + 3,500 subcontractor workers) actually does between a 6:30 AM carrier call about a contested claim and a 5:30 PM end-of-day compliance calendar review. Ten timeline steps including an unannounced OSHA inspection at a Tampa project + the broker call where next year's EMR comes in lower than projected.

Also for risk-management leadership

Read Carla's day → A VP Risk Management's day at a fictional multi-state construction firm where SE is the integration layer between operational safety records and the multi-line claims portfolio. A severity-flagged WC claim with initial reserves set in 18 minutes, an FY26 TCOR forecast meeting with the CFO, broker renewal positioning for Q4-Q1, large-claim reserve adequacy review, multi-state EMR what-if for an acquisition target, and the OSHA-300-to-WC-claims weekly reconciliation that replaces 16 hours of quarterly manual work. Ten timeline steps from 6:30 AM to 5:30 PM.

Also for sustainability + ESG leadership

Read Daniel's day → A Director Sustainability + ESG's day at a fictional Pacific Northwest construction firm with six overlapping reporting cycles in flight (SEC climate disclosure + CA SB 253 + EU CSRD via German JV + CDP + MSCI ratings + customer ESG questionnaires). A Scope 3 supply-chain emissions roll-up that surfaces a concrete-supplier EPD variance, an SEC climate disclosure prep call 38 days from filing, a 247-question customer ESG questionnaire where 79% auto-populates from continuous platform data, safety performance feeding the Social pillar with the same leading-indicator-to-incident-rate correlation that surfaces elsewhere on the marketing site, and a quarterly strategic ESG review with the CFO. Ten timeline steps from 6:30 AM to 5:30 PM PT.

Explore SE from a Construction lens

Where SE shows up most for multi-state Construction buyers.

Five Live capability spokes ship today. Three matter most for a multi-state Construction buyer profile: Compliance Automation (multi-jurisdictional recordkeeping that handles the per-state-plan complexity construction operators navigate constantly), Hazards (the Construction IndustryPack covers ten of the highest-stakes hazard categories you actually manage), and Incident Management (the 1904.31(b) contractor-supervision recordability test that determines whose books a subcontractor incident lands on — a frequent question in construction). Click any card to drill into the capability area's full deep-dive.

Compliance Automation

Live

Pluggable IRegulatoryJurisdiction abstraction handles all 50 states + DC + 5 territories + federal OSHA + Netherlands + UK through the same registration pattern — adding a state's reporting requirements is a registration, not a schema migration. Per-Establishment jurisdiction dispatch means a Texas project's record routes through federal OSHA + the Sun Belt establishments dispatch to their respective state plans automatically. Annual Form 300A posting cycle (29 CFR 1904.32) + OSHA ITA submission (29 CFR 1904.41) + Cal/OSHA Form 5020 + state-plan variants render from canonical incident data. ReportingSubmission entities with first-class supersede semantics handle correction chains for state FROI updates.

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Hazards

Live

The Construction IndustryPack seeds 10 construction-specific hazard categories — Falls from Heights, Excavation Collapse, Crane / Lifting, Falling Objects, Scaffolding, Power Tools, Heavy Equipment, Trenching, Concrete Pour, Demolition — on top of the 22 universal categories. The 5×5 ALARP-aligned matrix scores every hazard; Extreme-tier hazards (score ≥ 17) surface an "RCA Recommended" banner for preventive RCA before the next event. Hierarchy of controls modelled as per-control entities with forward-only lifecycle; resolution gated on Verified controls. Photo + GPS hazard capture via mobile flows into the Leaflet + OpenStreetMap map view per site.

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Incident Management

Live

Subcontractor incidents land in the Subcontractor Incident category (pre-seeded in the Construction IndustryPack); the 29 CFR 1904.31 supervising-employer rule is captured at intake so the determination is documented rather than reconstructed from memory at audit. For multi-state operators the per-establishment jurisdiction dispatch routes each case through its correct state-plan recordability variant and form-rendering pipeline. Severe-injury 1904.39 8-hour / 24-hour countdowns with OSHA Area Office routing across 10 federal regions, 50 states, DC, and 5 territories handle the high-severity events. A fully-automated 1904.31(b) day-to-day-supervision predicate is on the roadmap — see the section below.

Explore the Incident Management spoke →

What we're building next for construction

The construction-specific surfaces on the roadmap.

The capabilities below are the next investment slate for construction operators. If any of these is load-bearing for your evaluation timeline, please flag it in the demo conversation — customer demand shapes which lands first.

  • Workers' compensation claims surface — claim entity, reserve breakdown by medical / indemnity / expense, claims-aging buckets, subrogation and litigation tracking, closure-rate funnel and Total Cost of Risk dashboards.
  • In-house EMR trending — Experience Modification Rate by policy year with premium-impact interpretation.
  • Subcontractor proof-of-coverage exports — exports to a general contractor's portal for proof-of-coverage requests. (The rest of the subcontractor surface — roster, pre-qualification, COI tracking, per-worker OSHA 10/30 expiry alerts, site-access clearances, field audits, and a read-only worker self-service portal — is already live.)
  • Equipment-certification gating — preventing an unqualified operator from being assigned to a job that requires a credential they don't carry.
  • Compliance Calendar — a unified view of every regulatory deadline across every state your projects touch, with proactive alerts before each window closes.
  • Return-to-work planning — structured RTW plans with physician-ordered restrictions, return-to-work outcome tracking (Successful / Failed / Extended).
  • Voice incident capture — supervisor-on-the-phone dictation with AI transcription and structured-field extraction, layered on top of the shipped mobile, photo, GPS, and offline layer.
  • 1904.31(b) day-to-day-supervision predicate — auto-derivation of the supervising-employer determination from a structured rule, layered on top of the intake-capture that ships today.
  • QR-code SDS lookup — part of the broader Chemical Safety investment area.

See how SE shows up across your project portfolio.

A 30-minute walk-through against your actual operational shape — project count, state footprint, fleet size, EMR trajectory, current EHS toolchain. If SE isn't the right fit for what you're solving, we'll say so.