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SALUS · For Structural Steel & Ironwork Contractors

Fall protection and cranes are the whole job. SALUS makes the control provable every shift.

Your fall-protection program is solid. The question is execution at the leading edge: the working-at-heights cert checked on a clipboard if at all, the lift plan built for a different pick, the rigging inspection logged from memory. SALUS is the operational safety platform built for that gap. Crews capture at the source with one QR scan, in their language, offline at height — and Rosie turns every captured fact into the assessments, programs, and live proof the whole company runs on, from the connector to the bid room.

Trusted by LMS Reinforcing Steel and ironwork and structural contractors across Canada.

Harness inspection · D. Okafor · Level 146:47 AM · at the iron
Harness
Serial #H-2241: label photographed, condition logged
Lanyard
Double-leg: snap hooks inspected, photo attached
Location
GPS: Level 14, NE quadrant, timestamped
Connector status
Training + CDZ authorization verified before the JHA
Wind
12 mph at 6:47: monitoring, stand-down threshold 35
It happened at the iron, or the data says it did not.Photo-verified
Fall protection: #1 citation, 14 years running
This inspection ends up in a bid
  1. From the leading edge to the bid · one QR scan

  2. The leading edge

  3. The office

  4. The bid room

  5. One fact, traveling

The problem

Three problems. Only one is about paperwork.

Compliant and provable are different things. The forms existing is compliance. The control being provable at the leading edge — that's effectiveness, and it's where structural-steel safety programs actually break.

01

Your certs are tracked. Nobody checks them at the hoist.

Fall-protection and working-at-heights certification gets checked on a clipboard, if at all, while the connector is already at the leading edge. A 40-question generic JHA doesn't produce the same protection as task-specific questions that force a real conversation about today's pick — and the gap between a current cert and an expired one stays invisible until an auditor or an incident finds it.

02

Hours a day maintaining a standard nobody reads at height.

Lift plans, fall-protection assessments, crane pre-use inspections, cert verification, daily reports. At $65–$90/hr fully loaded, that's $230–$315 per foreman, per day, on documentation that would be both more protective and faster if it were task-specific and digital.

03

You measure what happened. Not what's about to.

Your incident log tells you who got hurt last year. It doesn't tell you that one crew's fall-protection inspection completion dropped from 95% to 62% since the crew changed. Leading indicators predict incidents — but only if you can see them.

The fix isn't more program. It's the program, provable — at the leading edge.

01The leading edge

It starts with one scan before the connector ties off.

6:12 AM. An ironworker QRs the lift before the pick. Everything below happens because of it.

Crew-level capture · at the leading edge

The gap between "I should check this" and "I'll just send it" is where ironworkers fall.

Your crews have made the connection a thousand times — and that familiarity is the danger. SALUS puts everything at the point of work, faster than winging it: the same safety your program already specifies, with the friction gone. At height, that's what prevention actually means.

01

The cert gates the sign-off, before the shift

A worker's profile carries their working-at-heights and fall-protection certification. When the crew signs off on the day's fall-protection plan, an expired or missing cert blocks that sign-off — surfacing the gap before the connector mobilizes, not after. And SALUS keeps it from getting close: expirations surface weeks ahead, ranked by who's mobilizing where, with the refresher pushed to the worker's phone before anything lapses.

A worker's profile shows a current working-at-heights certificate matched to the task — and the day's fall-protection sign-off is gated until every cert on the crew is valid
02

The lift, rigging, and fall-arrest controls in the ironworker's hand

Scan the QR for the pick: SALUS pre-loads the controls by task — the rigging plan, the fall-arrest requirement, the exclusion zone — in 10 seconds, on the phone, offline if the structure demands it. No more lift plan built for a different pick. The control is at the moment of the decision.

Pre-use inspection — Harness #H-2241 · before the climbLive
6:41 AM
Scanned at the work before the climb — not the trailer after
6:42 AM
Label and condition photographed · serial #H-2241 logged
6:43 AM
Double-leg lanyard: snap hooks inspected, photo attached
6:44 AM
GPS Level 14 · timestamp attached — proof it happened here, now
6:45 AM
Wear trend by serial — harness aging toward retirement flagged
2–4 minutes per worker. A checkmark can be backdated; a photo cannot.Photo-verified
03

The crane and rigging inspection ties to the operator

QR pre-use inspections tied to operator credentials: the operator scans the machine, the inspection loads, and a critical failure flags the assignment before the lift. Equipment data and deficiency routing close the loop — no paper inspection sitting in the gang box while the crane swings.

A crane pre-use inspection tied to the operator's credential — a critical failure flags the assignment and routes the deficiency before the lift
04

The assessment takes a photo and a sentence

The foreman talks or films the connection or the pick, and Rosie structures the FLHA and the lift plan — worker, task, and location context attached. It routes to a named person automatically and closes with a photo. When the assessment costs 90 seconds instead of a form and a climb down, the records that used to go unwritten become your leading indicators.

A foreman speaks to Rosie while walking the deck — the voice note becomes a structured FLHA and lift plan with photos attached
05

In every language on the crew

Many Canadian crews work in more than one language, and a comprehension gap is a safety gap at height. Workers complete inspections and ask Rosie questions — the rigging spec, the fall-clearance calculation, the SWP — in their own language; the office reads everything in English, including the hazard a worker actually flags.

Two-way capture between the leading edge and the office — the crew works in their own language, the office receives every inspection in English
LMS Reinforcing Steel cut its COR documentation review from two full days to 1 hour 45 minutes — the same evidence, assembled from the field record.

The deadliest hazards in the trade, controlled at the moment they matter — and provable to any auditor in seconds.

02The office

The same scan is now your safety director's eyes.

Every cert, lift plan, and inspection from every crew — one living record, watched continuously.

Leading indicators · always-current compliance

Stop compiling. Start preventing.

A structural safety director's nightmare isn't the hazard the crew sees — it's the gap nobody sees: the working-at-heights cert that lapsed mid-project, the lift plan written for the last sequence, the crew whose inspection quality has been sliding for three weeks. Because every crew captures at the source, the record is rich enough to watch itself — and Rosie watches it continuously. Leading indicators can predict the large majority of incidents before they happen. This is that data, building itself. 🍁 Across the rest of Canada, that record is the COR audit package and the WCB / WorkSafeBC evidence, assembled on demand. ⚜️ In Québec, it's the CNESST file and the comité de santé et de sécurité record under Bill 59, kept in French.

Certs current before the worker reaches height

Working-at-heights status verified against the task at every sign-off — and expirations surfaced weeks ahead with the refresher pushed to the worker's phone, so the gap never forms.

Corrective actions that close

Assigned to a named person — not 'the safety department' — tracked when viewed, closed with a photo. Average close time drops from 14 days to 3.5.

Updates at network speed

Revise a lift plan or fall-protection SWP once and it's live on every site and every QR code immediately. No driving, no page-swapping, no stale revision in a gang box.

Drift flagged this week

Fall-protection inspection completion dropping from 95% to 62% after a crew change shows up on your screen in 30 seconds — not in next quarter's incident review.

Ask Rosie — answered from your own field record
  • "Which ironworkers have working-at-heights certs expiring in 30 days?"
  • "Show fall-protection near-miss trends across all projects this quarter."
  • "Write a toolbox talk for a critical crane pick with the rigging and exclusion-zone controls."
Rosie pushes a fall-protection stand-down to every targeted device — acknowledged by 42 of 44 crew in 8 minutesA toolbox talk on the day's critical pick — completion tracked, the crew's sign-ins verified against the lift plan
03The bid room

By Friday, that scan is winning the next structure.

Crew-level facts become the live proof owners and GCs now demand.

Prequalification & winning work

The work you want goes to the contractor who can prove it — and the owner checks your evidence first.

Canadian owners and general contractors increasingly require COR certification and documented safety performance before you can bid — and they don't ask whether you have a fall-protection program, they ask for the records: COR status, documented systems, daily compliance evidence. Every fact your crews captured at the leading edge is already that evidence. The Trust Portal shares it as a live link — working-at-heights cert currency, inspection completion, corrective-action velocity — verifiable by any GC or owner in minutes, no SALUS account required. And there's an insurance dividend: documented control is what earns the WCB rebate and the insurer's incentive.

  • Prequal answered with a live link instead of a binder assembled the night before the deadline.
  • Your experience rating protected at the execution level — every claim feeds the WCB or WSIB premium you pay, and a fall is where the worst claims come from.
  • When the records request or the insurer's review comes, Rosie assembles the packet from the same field record — in minutes.
LMS Reinforcing Steel cut its COR documentation review from two full days to 1 hour 45 minutes, holds a guaranteed 5% WCB rebate, and estimates the program saves roughly $180K a year.

The evidence that wins the bid is already captured at the leading edge.

The circuit · leading edge → office → bid room

One scan before the pick. Proof everywhere it matters.

Capture once, at the source, with no friction — and let Rosie carry the fact to everyone who needs it, in whatever form they need it.

FAQ

Asked by structural and ironwork contractors, answered straight.

We already have a strong fall-protection program. Why SALUS?
You have the program — the question is execution at the leading edge. SALUS gates the sign-off on working-at-heights certs, pre-loads the lift and rigging controls by task, ties crane inspections to the operator, and puts the fall-protection SWP 10 seconds from the pick. Same program, provable every shift — and your foremen recover $36K–$74K a year of documentation time each.
How does SALUS handle COR audits, WCB rebates, and Québec's CNESST regime?
🍁 Across the rest of Canada, SALUS assembles the COR audit package and the WCB / WorkSafeBC evidence from the same field capture — working-at-heights cert gating, lift and rigging controls, crane inspections, and corrective actions closed to a named person — and documented control is what earns the rebate. ⚜️ In Québec, the same record feeds CNESST and the comité de santé et de sécurité under Bill 59, in French, and supports a mutuelle de prévention file, where documented prevention helps lower the premium (15 to 50% depending on the group).
What's the difference between 'compliant' and 'provable'?
Compliant: the forms exist. Provable: the cert gating actually stops an out-of-date sign-off, near-misses get reported, corrective actions close in 3.5 days instead of 14, and you can show any auditor or insurer the live record. That's the difference between a binder and a defence.
How does cert gating work without stopping the crew?
SALUS gates the sign-off, not the worker. When the crew signs off on the day's fall-protection plan, an expired or missing working-at-heights cert blocks that sign-off and surfaces the gap — so it's caught before the connector mobilizes. Expirations also surface weeks ahead with the refresher pushed to the worker's phone, so the gap rarely forms in the first place.
How does SALUS handle multilingual crews?
On multilingual Canadian crews, comprehension is a safety system, not a luxury — especially at height. Workers complete inspections, take micro-training, and ask Rosie questions in their own language; the office reads everything in English, including the hazard a worker actually flags.
How painful is it to move off our current system?
Hours, not months. Upload your lift-plan and assessment library and Rosie converts it — conditional logic added, institutional knowledge intact. The rigging judgment of your best foreman gets encoded so the newest apprentice works from it on day one.
I'm an exec. Why should I care about safety software?
Three reasons. Your foremen lose hours a day to paper compliance — $36K–$74K per foreman per year. Your best foreman's rigging expertise can't be on 50 projects at once unless it's encoded into the system. And documented control is money: it earns the WCB rebate, defends your experience rating, and increasingly decides which work you're allowed to bid. LMS holds a guaranteed 5% WCB rebate on exactly that basis.
For structural steel & ironwork contractors

Fall protection and cranes are the whole job. SALUS makes the control provable.

Bring your lift-plan process, your cert spreadsheet, and your last prequal package — and watch one QR scan replace all three in a 15-minute demo.

Trusted by LMS Reinforcing Steel and structural contractors across Canada.