A walkthrough run the way OSHA runs one — same scope, same document requests, same standards — with findings ranked by how likely they are to be cited and what they would cost.
A large share of citations come from paperwork an inspector requests in the first thirty minutes: the written program, the training records, the exposure assessments, the inspection logs. Companies with clean floors get cited because the file behind the practice does not exist.
A written lockout program that describes a procedure nobody follows is worse than no program — it establishes that you knew the requirement. Inspectors compare the document to the floor, and the gap is the finding.
Your NAICS code may sit inside a national or regional emphasis program, which means a programmed inspection is a question of when rather than if. Most employers have never checked.
An inspection opened on a complaint about one area expands because something in plain view during the walk invites a broader look. What gets seen on the route matters as much as what is in the file.
Whoever greets the compliance officer sets the tone for everything that follows. Without a defined process for the opening conference, document handling and the walkaround, the scope is set by default.
A prior citation for the same standard at any of your sites raises classification dramatically. Companies with multiple plants often carry repeat exposure they have never mapped.
A senior CSP walks your operation on the route a compliance officer would take, requests the documents that would actually be requested, and interviews employees the way they would be interviewed. Nothing is scored generically — findings are mapped to the specific standards that apply to your processes and your NAICS code.
You get a report ranked by citation likelihood and severity, with abatement steps, rough costs and a sequence. The point is to spend money in the right order, not to receive a 200-item list nobody will work.
Findings from a consultant audit are generally not discoverable by OSHA as a matter of course, but failing to abate something you documented as a hazard is the exposure that matters. The protection is not secrecy — it is closing what you find, on a documented schedule.
Typically one to three days on site depending on size and process complexity, with the report a week to ten days later.
No. The state On-Site Consultation program is free and genuinely useful, but it requires you to abate serious hazards on their timeline and it is a government program. A private mock inspection gives you control over scope, timing and what happens next.
We tell you immediately rather than waiting for the report, and we help you interim-protect it that day. Serious hazards do not wait for a deliverable.
Yes. We manage the opening conference, document requests, walkaround and any citation response and abatement documentation.
Twenty minutes to scope the walkthrough and tell you whether your NAICS code sits inside an emphasis program.
FractionalEHS.io delivers on-demand Environmental, Health & Safety leadership for growing industrial firms. Expert-driven. Tech-enabled. Compliance made simple.
Stay Ahead with Expert Insights