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Elevating Safety Beyond Compliance

Driving Collaboration Through Standards-Based User Groups

Designed for safety professionals, employers and solution providers committed to preventing serious injuries and fatalities.

Compliance sets the baseline, but preventing serious workplace injuries and fatalities requires more. To make a real difference, organizations need practical tools, peer collaboration and guidance on applying voluntary consensus standards where risk is highest.

Our new standards-based user groups bring safety professionals, technology and industry together to turn voluntary consensus standards into real-world practices that reduce the highest-risk hazards — where prevention matters most.

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Focused on the Most Critical Safety Risks

Our standards-based user groups concentrate on leading drivers of serious injury and fatality (SIF) risk — areas with high incident costs, strong regulatory visibility and clear opportunity for improvement through standards-based practice.

By isolating the top hazards identified by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and OSHA, we are identifying and removing causes of fatalities where they live: on the shop floor, at the construction site and in the heart of our infrastructure.

What Is a Standards-Based User Group?

A standards-based user group is a practitioner-led network of organizations and safety leaders committed to moving beyond minimum compliance by implementing voluntary consensus standards in real-world environments.

Standards-based user groups provide a neutral, structured forum to:

Share frontline-tested methods and lessons
Benchmark programs and performance to drive measurable impact
Develop repeatable, validated practices that save lives
Influence voluntary consensus standards with real-world insights
Collaborate with peers to eliminate serious injuries and fatalities

Initial Focus Areas

Fall Protection:

Deploying world-class standards and technology to reduce the risk of falls from height

Lockout/Tagout:

Translating best practices into frontline action to add layers of protection for energy-related tasks

AI in Safety:

Leveraging technology responsibly to anticipate and reduce risk

You can select one or more focus areas below.

Why Participate?

By joining a user group, you:

Remove barriers to action: Share intelligence and data with peers to eliminate the obstacles that prevent effective safety implementation.
Drive results: Move beyond passive observation and compliance minimums toward a future where safety drives enterprise performance.
Protect your most valuable asset: Use shared evidence and validated practices to ensure your people return home safely every day.

Safety excellence isn’t achieved in isolation — it’s built together.

Be One of the First to Join

Take action with peers to reduce serious injuries and fatalities. Express your interest in any of our three standards-based user groups and our team will follow up with next steps and early participation opportunities. There is no initial obligation. Expressing your interest helps shape the direction and scope of each group.

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User Group(s) of Interest

AI in Safety (responsible, standards-aligned use of AI in safety systems)

Lockout/Tagout (consistent application of hazardous energy control standards)

Fall Protection (reducing fall-related SIF risk through applied consensus standards)

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What motivates your interest in joining a standards-based user group?

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