


With over four decades of safety services excellence, Construction Safety Specialists Incorporated (CSSI) is well positioned to be your “FIRST CALL” safety solution. CSSI’s team of professionals can provide your company with safety services to cover every aspect of your business. Be it jobsite inspections and audits; employee training and education; OSHA compliance; or moving your company’s safety culture to a new level, making CSSI your FIRST CALL solution is a decision you can make with confidence.
As the Master Builders of Iowa’s preferred safety provider, CSSI works with companies and clients to make institutional changes that influence company behavior and this is where CSSI can be most effective and beneficial to construction companies. CSSI is fully capable of assessing your company’s overall risk management strategies and can work with your team to make impactful institutional changes to the betterment of your company’s safety behavior. This is where CSSI can be most effective and beneficial to your company.
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The Company via Retainer Services – Flexible Use of Monthly Contract Hours As a retainer client, you have the flexibility to use contract hours best suited to your company needs. If your company has multiple, on-going projects in need of inspection services, CSSI’s network of professionals can help with coverage, regardless of where the projects are located. With professionals located in throughout Iowa, western Illinois and eastern Nebraska, the CSSI team can conveniently service your safety requirements. Clients can use retainer hours for additional services like safety manual review and comprehensive audits for jobsites, as well as company-owned facilities like warehouses, shops and storage areas. For GC’s, retainer hours can even be allocated to help trade partners with training requirements specific to a current project or need.
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The Project Specific Services Via WORKSAFE
Since 2012, CSSI and MBI have utilized the WORKSAFE program to provide contractors an additional set of eyes on many construction sites throughout Iowa. Through a collaboration with Iowa OSHA Consultation, CSSI and MBI are able to provide a coaching perspective to jobsite safety. This one-of-a-kind relationship gives contractors a comprehensive view on how to make their construction site safer while focusing on ways to keep workers healthy, reducing lost work hours and benefitting production. By enrolling a project in WORKSAFE, your company can customize the cadence of inspections based on schedule and scope. Other aspects of WORKSAFE include kick-off meetings to prepare all trade partners for safety expectations on the project, and banners to signify the project’s heightened commitment to safety.
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Focus on the Employee through Technical Training and Best in Class Education
CSSI can provide a workerspecific approach to better prepare your employees for risks and exposures on the jobsite. Through its Training on Demand (TOD) services, CSSI is able to recommend a full complement of training programs that can be customized to each and every client. If deficiencies in safety and risk management practices are identified during jobsite audits, CSSI pros can help create curriculums to address safety challenges. This approach not only benefits the employee through upskilling and performance, but helps with retaining talent and takes great steps in changing behaviors company-wide.
CSSI’s team of professionals are well versed in conducting jobsite audits. A CSSI professional is designated to a site and is able to conduct daily, weekly or monthly site audits.
CSSI professionals are available to provide assistance in defense of a citation issued by OSHA or help to abate an infraction cited by OSHA. CSSI professionals can be there to assist your firm in navigating investigations, as well as assisting in creating mitigation programs.
CSSI professionals are well versed in understanding protocols a company can and should be taking to ensure safe jobsites. Be it starting from scratch, or honing an existing document, CSSI’s perspective on your company’s safety manual can be of tremendous value toward creating a safety-focused culture within your company.
CSSI professionals provide a full complement training to address nearly every aspect of safety on a job site.
The following is complement of subject matter areas that CSSI professionals can provide training:
• Asbestos Awareness
• Confined Space Rescue
• Fall Protection
• Flagger / Traffic Control
• Fire Extinguisher Training
• First Aid / Adult CPR / AED
• Fit Test
• Infection Control Risk Assessment
• Mobile Elevated Work Platforms (MEWP)
• OSHA 10 and 30 Construction
• OSHA 10 and 30 General Industry
• Respirators
• Rigging
• Run / Hid / Fight – Active Shooter
• Scaffold
• Silica
• Suicide Prevention
• Trench Safety
CSSI is ready to help clients with all things related to safety and risk management and brings together a wide array of training professionals who are focused on keeping your workers safe while striving to get the greatest return on your risk management investments.
Should you have any questions or need additional information on CSSI’s scope of safety services, please feel free to contact CSSI’s Managing Director – Kim Hodne – at Kim@IowaCSSI.com.