Straight Shot Safety and Compliance Consulting

12/16/2025

Wishing you all a wonderful finish to 2025 and an even brighter 2026 ahead!

12/15/2025

Fractional Safety Support: Build Your EAP Without Slowing Down Operations

Most companies know they need an Emergency Action Plan: they just don’t have time to build or update one.

That’s where Straight Shot Safety fits:
✔ Fractional safety leadership
✔ On-site or remote facility assessments
✔ Custom EAP creation or overhaul
✔ Training & drill facilitation
✔ Regulatory alignment (OSHA 1910.38, NFPA, local requirements)
Your team keeps the business moving.

We build the plan that keeps them protected.

If your EAP is outdated, incomplete, or nonexistent, let’s tighten it up.

Contact Straight Shot Safety today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511
Safety leadership, without the full-time cost.

12/12/2025

Audit-Ready OSHA Training Documentation: Why It Matters

Does your safety training stand up to an audit? At Straight Shot Safety, we help organizations develop audit-ready documentation that meets OSHA’s strict standards:
✅ Employee training logs
✅ Written certifications (PIT, fall protection, LOTO, etc.)
✅ Annual refresher tracking
✅ Trainer qualifications
✅ Verified competency (written and hands-on)

Proper documentation enables you to show employees were trained before exposure, competency was verified, and retraining occurred when necessary. This not only reduces regulatory risk and strengthens your compliance position; it also builds a culture of safety and trust.

Straight Shot Safety provides the training your organization needs.
Contact Straight Shot Safety today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

Let’s ensure your safety program is as strong on paper as it is in practice.

12/10/2025

OSHA Required Training: More Than Just “Checking the Box”

Effective OSHA compliance goes far beyond simply “providing training.” Employers must document that employees have received, understood, and demonstrated competency in safety procedures relevant to their job roles.

This documentation is essential, especially during inspections, incident investigations, insurance audits, or compliance reviews.

At Straight Shot Safety, we take a structured, site-specific approach to training and documentation. We identify all mandated OSHA training requirements for your facility, including Hazard Communication, Lockout/Tagout, Powered Industrial Trucks, PPE, Emergency Action Plans, and more.

Every operation is unique, so we customize your training matrix to ensure every task, piece of equipment, and process hazard is addressed.

A strong training program not only keeps your team safe but also positions your organization for long-term success.

Straight Shot Safety provides the training your organization needs.

Contact Straight Shot Safety today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

12/08/2025

The Biggest EAP Mistake: No One Has Practiced It

The most common gap I see?

Companies never practice their EAP.

A plan that hasn’t been drilled is a plan that will fail.

At Straight Shot Safety, we run:

🔹 Tabletop reviews

🔹 Walkthrough drills

🔹 Communication tests

🔹 “What if?” scenario coaching

🔹 Accountability exercises

Because when something goes wrong, your people fall back on the last thing they practiced, not the last thing they printed.

Training doesn’t have to be complicated; it just has to be done.

An unpracticed plan is a liability.

Need help with your Emergency Action Plan? Contact Straight Shot Safety today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

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12/04/2025

The 7 Critical Elements of a Solid Emergency Action Plan:

Most EAPs fail because they’re copied templates that don’t reflect the facility.

At Straight Shot Safety, every EAP we build includes seven non-negotiables:

1. Communications Protocol: Who alerts whom, and how.
2. Evacuation Routes & Maps: Clear, posted, and walk-tested.
3. Assembly Points & Accountability: No guessing during chaos.
4. Shutdown Procedures: Because not everything should be left running.
5. Medical & Rescue Contacts: Local, not generic.
6. Role Assignments: Primary & backup personnel.
7. Scenario Playbooks: Fire, chemical event, weather, utility loss, violence, and more.

Your team deserves more than a downloaded template. They deserve a plan that works the moment stakes are highest.

Safety isn’t paperwork. It’s ex*****on.

Straight Shot Safety has the experience to create or update your Emergency Action Plan. Contact us today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

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12/02/2025

OSHA’s Top 10 List for 2025 Is Out …and honestly? No surprises.

For the seventh year in a row, the same core violations continue to lead the way. Since 2018, this list has barely changed; a clear signal that many employers still aren’t taking advantage of the most obvious opportunity in front of them:

👉 Fix the basics.

1. Fall Protection 2. Hazard Communications 3. Ladders 4. Lockout/tag out 5. Respiratory protection 6. Fall protection training 7. Scaffolding 8. Powered Ind trucks 9. PPE Eye and Face 10. Machine Guarding

If your organization is struggling with compliance, start by ensuring you have these Top 10 items fully locked in.

These are the same issues cited year after year. Preventable, predictable, and costly when ignored.

What this tells us:

1️⃣Companies aren’t failing because of obscure regulations

2️⃣They’re failing because of foundational safety gaps

3️⃣Most of these are low-hanging fruit that can be corrected with straightforward training, inspections, and accountability

What this means for you:

If you can’t confidently say you’re in full compliance with OSHA’s Top 10 then 2026 is the year to change that.

These aren’t “nice to have”, they are the minimum, and the minimum is still getting companies fined, cited and employees injured.

Safety doesn’t need to be complicated.

But it does need to be intentional.

If you need help assessing your gaps and fixing them before they become findings that’s exactly what Straight Shot Safety is built for.

Straight Shot Safety is available to assist with your company’s safety and compliance needs. Contact us today: info@straightshotsafety.com, or call 978-245-7511

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12/01/2025

When companies downsize, safety and compliance functions are often the first to get cut.

But here’s the truth we don’t talk about enough:
Reducing safety doesn’t reduce cost. It increases it. Significantly.

Here’s what usually happens

1️⃣ Fines & Regulatory Actions

OSHA, EPA, FDA, DOT: pick your agency.
One missed inspection or outdated SOP can lead to six-figure fines or even operational shutdowns.

2️⃣ More Downtime

When you remove the people who keep systems tight:
Preventive tasks slip
Training lapses
Documentation falls behind
Small issues become costly failures

Unplanned downtime is one of the most expensive hits a business can take.

3️⃣ Injury Costs Skyrocket

A single recordable injury averages:
$42,000 in direct cost
$150,000+ in indirect cost
Serious incidents can exceed $1M–$10M once litigation and insurance are included.

4️⃣ Insurance & Customer Impact
Cutting safety increases risk → risk increases premiums.

And customers notice. Many will not award contracts to companies with weak compliance programs.

The Bottom Line
For every $1 saved by reducing safety/compliance staff, companies often take on $10–$100 in real exposure.

There’s a better model:

✔ Fractional safety leadership
✔ Outsourced compliance oversight
✔ Scaled support during high-risk periods

Companies that protect their safety capabilities during downturns come out stronger, more stable, and more competitive.

Straight Shot Safety is available to assist with your company’s safety and compliance needs.
Contact us today: info@straightshotsafety.com, or call 978-245-7511

Call now to connect with business.

11/28/2025

Why Every Company Needs an EAP (Even If They Think They Don't)

Most small manufacturing and R&D teams don’t think about emergencies until one happens.
And when it does, confusion becomes the real hazard, not the event itself.

That’s why Straight Shot Safety builds Emergency Action Plans that are:
👉 Practical
👉 Site-specific
👉 Built around your people, your operations, and your risks

If your team can’t answer these questions in under 10 seconds… you don’t have a real EAP:

👉 Who calls 911?
👉 Where do people go?
👉 How do we account for employees?
👉 Who shuts down critical equipment?
👉 What happens if leadership is off-site?

A binder on a shelf won’t save you. A rehearsed, simple, actionable plan will.
A plan is only good if people can actually use it.

Straight Shot Safety has the experience to create or update your Emergency Action Plan. Contact us today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

11/25/2025

Your Engineers Aren’t Safety Managers.
Let your technical talent do what they do best.

R&D and manufacturing teams often hand safety to:
The operations lead
The lead engineer
The senior technician
Not because they’re trained… but because they’re the most responsible person in the room.

Here’s the truth:
Your engineers should be designing, improving, optimizing; not writing SOPs or chasing PPE issues.

Fractional safety support gives them their time back.

With Straight Shot Safety, your team gets:
Industry-standard procedures
Real training (not just slide decks)
Hazard assessments
Laser safety (if relevant)
Lab & equipment compliance

Let your innovators innovate.

We’ll handle the rest.
Straight Shot Safety helps protect people and allow innovation.

Contact us today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

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11/20/2025

Safety Isn’t Expensive, Injuries and Rework Is.
Pay for prevention or pay for downtime. Your choice.

In small manufacturing, every hour of downtime hits harder.

A single injury or near miss can cripple:
• Production schedules
• Customer commitments
• Overtime budgets
• Morale
• Engineering focus

The cost of “we’ll get to safety later” always shows up somewhere, usually with interest.
A fractional safety program gives you the systems, training, and controls of a full-time safety manager at a scale that matches your business.

You get:
• Predictable monthly cost
• Proactive risk reduction
• Cleaner audits
• Fewer surprises
• Better productivity

Straight Shot Safety helps small teams protect people and protect the schedule.
Contact us today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

11/18/2025

Your leadership shouldn’t get stuck doing safety’s busywork.

Most small manufacturers and R&D teams don’t have a safety problem; they have a capacity problem.

Your leadership team was hired to:

Build the company
Drive innovation
Deliver products
Grow the business

But somewhere along the way, safety became a stack of side-tasks on a manager’s desk:

✔ Writing procedures
✔ Training new hires
✔ Chasing compliance gaps
✔ Handling incidents
✔ Updating documentation

This is how safety becomes reactive, because the people who own it already have a full-time job.

Fractional safety fixes that.

With a part-time, embedded safety partner like Straight Shot Safety, you get senior-level safety leadership without the full-time payroll.

Your leaders lead.
Your safety gets handled.
Your company grows.

Straight Shot Safety is positioned to be the fractional safety team your organization needs.
Contact us today info@straightshotsafety.com or call 978-245-7511

Call now to connect with business.