PLAYBOOK
OSHA & UOSH Inspection Response Playbook
What to do when an inspector arrives, during the walkaround, and after a citation.
Updated October 2026
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Field guides
Five practical guides, current as of October 2026. Every document is available as a PDF and an editable Word file.
PLAYBOOK
What to do when an inspector arrives, during the walkaround, and after a citation.
Updated October 2026
CHECKLIST
Utah subcontract language for indemnity, insurance, safety responsibility, and reporting.
Updated October 2026
INCIDENT RESPONSE GUIDE
Reporting deadlines, preserving evidence, witness statements, and documenting the response.
Updated October 2026
FIELD GUIDE
Six practical AI prompts for safety work, with privacy and verification safeguards.
Updated October 2026
DECISION GUIDE
A printable guide to injury/illness recordkeeping, work-relatedness, exceptions, and reporting.
Updated October 2026
Featured field guide
Six tools, six safety tasks, six ready-to-use prompts. Use an employer-approved account, remove protected information, and verify every result against your sources.
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“Act as my safety advisor. Using the discussions in this project and [current reports] for [month], draft a one-page executive brief: three priority exposures, progress, unresolved issues, decisions needed, and next actions with proposed owners and dates. Separate confirmed facts from recommendations. Label each recommendation as a legal requirement, a consensus standard, or a best practice, and don’t call anything a violation unless the cited standard clearly applies. Cite supporting dates or records, flag stale or conflicting information, and don’t assume access to every past conversation. Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
“Turn [field notes and labeled photos] into an editable inspection report for [project and audience], following [template or style example]. Include an executive summary and a numbered table with: observation, location, applicable requirement, assessment, recommendation, proposed owner and target date. Match photo captions to finding numbers. Use words like ‘observed,’ ‘appears,’ and ‘photographs indicate’; don’t state more than the evidence shows. Cite only the requirements I supply, and mark any finding without one as ‘requirement to be confirmed.’ Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
“Find three publicly reported construction incidents from the last 30 days involving [trade or hazard]. Give dates, locations, and source links. Prioritize OSHA and state agency releases and established news outlets; treat X posts only as leads and flag anything unverified. Separate confirmed facts from unknowns. Don’t name injured workers, infer root cause, or assign blame. Pick the most relevant incident and write three crew discussion questions about similar exposures on our project. Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
“Analyze [inspection and corrective-action tracker] for [period]. First flag missing dates, duplicates, inconsistent hazard categories, and actions with no owner or due date. Summarize recurring hazards by project and trade; list overdue high-priority actions and owners. Chart open actions by age. Show supporting rows and calculations, and preserve the original data. Distinguish finding counts from risk. Don’t rank project safety performance without comparable exposure data, and don’t decide whether any injury is recordable; list those cases for review. Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
“Prepare a research brief for a [45-minute] presentation on AI and workplace safety for [audience]. Prioritize OSHA, NIOSH, and peer-reviewed research. Cover practical applications, evidence of benefits, limitations, privacy, and human oversight. For each key claim, give a direct source link, publication date, and the supporting passage or page; flag sources older than three years. Separate demonstrated results from vendor claims. Finish with five takeaways and leave out unsupported statistics. Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
“Using only [approved site safety plan, emergency plan, and project rules], create an eight-slide orientation for [trade / new workers]. Cover site access, key hazards and controls, PPE, emergency contacts, evacuation, incident reporting, and stop-work authority. Add speaker notes and a five-question knowledge check with an answer key and source references. Mark missing contacts or locations NEEDS CONFIRMATION, flag any instruction that conflicts between sources instead of choosing one, and don’t invent site rules. Before you start, ask me the essential questions about anything missing.”
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