Safety Consultant in Edmonton — A Safety Department on Retainer

A safety consultant builds and maintains your workplace health and safety program so it meets Alberta OHS requirements and stands up to audits. In a retained (fractional) model that means writing and updating your procedures, developing hazard assessments, coordinating training, tracking incidents and inspections, running your prequalification portals, and preparing you for COR, SECOR, or client prequal — acting as your safety department without the cost of a full-time hire.

A safety consultant in Edmonton doesn’t have to cost what a hire does. The honest math: a full-time coordinator runs $65,000–$120,000 a year loaded, and raw safety software with nobody running it still bills you every month. Our Fractional Safety Advisor plans run $1,395–$3,900/mo — the full digital platform and a dedicated safety administrator running it — backed by our credentialed senior team, not a login you manage yourself. Most operators land on the $2,495 Standard plan — a whole safety department for a fraction of one salary, software included.

If you don’t have enough steady safety work to fill a full-time role — common under roughly 50 workers — a retained coordinator is usually the better economics. You get senior coverage for the hours you actually need, no benefits or turnover risk, and a documented program that stays with your company rather than one person. Once safety becomes a daily, site-by-site function, then an internal hire supported by a fractional director often makes sense.

A one-off consultant delivers a project — a manual, an audit, an assessment — then leaves; the program ages the day they walk out. By contrast, a fractional safety advisor stays on retainer year-round — keeping your documentation current, flagging what’s coming, running your safety meetings, and keeping you audit-ready. You’re buying an ongoing safety operation, not a snapshot in time — run as hands-on or hands-off as you like.

We’re not classroom-only consultants, and we’re not just a ticket. Our team is journeyman tradespeople, NCSO-certified, and university safety trained — the on-the-tools cred and the theory in one team.

And we flex to how you run your shop: want it fully off your plate? We’ll run it. Want to stay in control? We’ll advise and you decide. Either way you get a dedicated safety administrator driving your day-to-day, backed by a journeyman-and-university-trained senior team — event-based safety talks, quarterly and bi-annual meetings, and a COR-audit-ready program, plus the full digital platform, for a fraction of a full-time hire.

Yes — because certification is built on a functioning safety program, which is exactly what we maintain day to day. We handle the gap analysis, build the system to the COR or SECOR standard, and prepare your documentation for the audit — then keep it audit-ready under a retainer. Whether COR or SECOR fits depends mostly on headcount (more than ten workers points to COR) and the contracts you want to bid.