We've been invited to be a guest speaker at the 2022 Western Roofing Expo.  If you can attend, please visit us at booth 668, or join us during our presentation from 10:15-11:30 on Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022.  

10:15am-11:30am Presentation:
Develop Your Own Roofing Safety Level Program to Inspire Safe and OSHA Compliant Job Sites
   
Seminar Description: Roofers work quickly and often fail to use proper fall protection due to hurry, apathy (it won’t happen to me), or simply not having the knowledge, skills or gear available to create a safe work site. Although OSHA has worked hard to help workers have safe conditions, after 50 years, falls continue to be a leading cause of injury and death at work. All too often, excellent roofing companies are buried beneath crippling fines for being out of compliance. Attendees will learn how to inspire and reward their team to become among the best trained, safest crews in the industry, and how their clients will love and reward them for this. ​​

Develop your Qualified and Competent Persons.
Benefits include:


  • Improved safety.
  • Fewer injuries.
  • Better overall attention to detail.
  • Lower Insurance premiums.
  • Better jobs and clients.
  • Decreased competition.
  • Better employee morale
  • Better employee retention
  • Better and easier referrals
  • Improved recruiting.
OSHA 1910.140 (b) defines a "Qualified" person  who, by possession of a recognized degree, certification, or professional standing, or who by extensive knowledge, training, and experience has successfully demonstrated the ability to solve or resolve problems relating to  the subject matter, the work, or the project.

The "Competent" person means a person who is capable of identifying existing and predictable hazards in any personal fall protection system or any component of it, as well as in their application and uses with related equipment, and who is authorized to take prompt, corrective action to eliminate the identified hazards.
Candidates in our Roofing Safety Level Program mature into Competent and Qualified Persons quickly.
Contact us if you are interested in training.  434-258-9818
As an owner of a roofing/remodeling business (Blue Glass, LLC), I want three things daily for our team.
I want them to go home safely every day.
I want our clients to receive excellent work.
I want our team to enjoy, and be proud of the work they do.
Realistic, practical safety training is the guide that keeps us on this path.
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Ronny Roseveare
Our "Roofing" Safety Level Program was created to achieve the following goals.
​This program helped us:
  • Continually create a safe working environment.
  • Demonstrate how much we care about each member of our team.
  • Build trust among team members.
  • Accelerate team member dedication to details, and excellence.
  • Maintain a high referral rate from our clients.
  • Improve team member retention through increased knowledge, pride and financial incentives for each level earned.
  • Maintain lower Worker's Compensation premiums.
RS Level - 1 Requirements
Recommended Bonus and Pay Rate Increase Upon Achievement
  • Be accident and injury free on the jobsite for over 6 months.
  • Demonstrate a dedication to keeping clients and peers safe.
  • Continually use your rope properly.  A tight rope, is the right rope.  Slack = Danger.
  • Be responsible for jobsite safety (start - finish) on 10 different jobsites.
  • Document this by completing our jobsite specific checklist every morning.  Email this document and a jobsite photo to the office each morning prior to beginning work.
  • Inspire peers to use safe working practices in a caring and professional manner.
  • Design safe access systems and utilize them.
  • Be creative.  Recognize problems and present multiple solutions.
The "Yellow" roofer below was a RS Level 2 Candidate, and the "Orange" roofer was a RS Level 1 Candidate at the time of this photo.  They are utilizing tight ropes with load limiting lanyards and sternal fall arrest rings to keep themselves safe (if a fall should occur).  Their back up knots (along with tight ropes) prevent them from falling over the eve.
RS Level - 2 Requirements
Recommended Bonus and Pay Rate Increase Upon Achievement
  • 6 months experience at RS Level 1.
  • Must successfully mentor 1 person to achieve their own RS Level 1.
  • Must earn their CPR and emergency First Aid cards from an accredited organization in person (online classes do not count).
  • Complete OSHA 10 training.
RS Level - 3 Requirements (under development)
Recommended Bonus and Pay Rate Increase Upon Achievement

  • 12 months experience at RS Level 2
  • Must successfully mentor another person to achieve their own RS Level 1.
  • Complete OSHA 30 training
Daily Jobsite Specific Checklist
Educate.  Evaluate.  Evolve.  After fine tuning our daily safety check list via Google Sheets and mobile phones on the jobsite for more than a  year, we  re-evolved to the brochure format shown below.  This allows our crews to use a good old fashioned pencil and quickly move through each section.  It also now has a section for Client/Foreman interaction.  This section allows us to clearly communicate the need for safety on each jobsite with our clients as well as the expectations for the day.  Our clients and crews love it and we hope it helps you as well.
Our Mission:  Continuously develop and share advanced techniques, systems and gear
to aid steep roofers in performing work safely and simply.
 434-258-9818