Written safety program development for general industry
A safety manual only protects you when it describes the work your people actually do. PS&M writes general industry manuals and standalone programs under 29 CFR 1910 in plain language a supervisor can act on, structured so the right section surfaces fast — during an inspection, a training session, or an incident. Forms are built in: inspection checklists, incident reports, investigation records, training logs. The documentation that proves compliance happens as part of the work, not after it.
Scope runs from a single program that closes a specific gap to a complete manual covering the operation: hazard communication, lockout/tagout, confined space entry, respiratory protection, powered industrial trucks, electrical safety, emergency action planning, bloodborne pathogens, heat illness prevention, respirable crystalline silica, walking-working surfaces, and process safety management where it applies. Every program defines responsibilities and lines of authority — including who serves as competent person for regulated work — and matches your equipment, chemicals, and processes exactly.
Is an IIPP required in California?
Yes. Under Cal/OSHA’s 8 CCR 3203, nearly every California employer must maintain a written, effective Injury and Illness Prevention Program — and it is the first document a Cal/OSHA inspector asks for. Section 3203 is among the most frequently cited standards in the state, and a missing or generic IIPP works against you in every claim that follows.
PS&M provides end-to-end IIPP development for California employers. New programs built from the ground up: responsibilities and lines of authority, hazard identification and correction, incident investigation, training, and communication, mapped to how your organization actually runs. Full revisions that strip obsolete and conflicting language from an aging document and close the gaps a workplace safety audit surfaces first. And implementation guidance — because Cal/OSHA evaluates whether an IIPP is effective and in use, not whether it exists. We build IIPPs for contractors, manufacturers, warehouse and logistics operations, food processors, municipalities, utilities, and healthcare and laboratory environments.
Construction safety manuals matched to your role
A general contractor’s construction safety manual and a specialty trade’s are different documents, because the exposure is different. For GCs, PS&M writes the programs that come with controlling the whole site — project safety planning, subcontractor management, crane and derrick safety, steel erection, demolition, trenching and excavation, public protection adjacent to the work. For subcontractors and specialty trades, we scope a leaner manual to your actual operations — fall protection under 29 CFR 1926.501, scaffold safety, hot work, silica, rigging — so crews carry a document that reflects their trade, not fifty programs they will never open.
Either way, the manual is a risk-management tool. It demonstrates compliance effort during inspections and claims, clarifies roles and expectations across the project, and strengthens your standing with owners, insurers, and prequalification platforms like ISN and Avetta. That documentation posture matters most in construction, where multi-employer citations turn on who wrote what down.
How PS&M builds and delivers your program
Discovery first: operations, locations, workforce, existing documentation, enforcement history, client requirements. Then gap analysis, development, and delivery of a fully editable manual your team owns. We pair rollout with new-hire safety orientation training so the program reaches the field, and when you need more than documents, manuals slot into a broader OSHA compliance engagement. As your operations change and regulations move, we keep the program current — documented, dated, and defensible.