Safety management a five-man crew can actually run.
The weekly talk, the JSA, the inspections and the packet a GC asks for, signed on the crew's own phones in five minutes.
More than the talk. This is what it looks like on the phone.
Real screens, example names. The talk is the start; the JSA, the inspections, the trucks, your written program and the packet a GC asks for sign and seal the same way.
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This is what you hand a GC.
Every record, sealed: the meetings with every name, signature and timestamp, the JSAs, the inspections and the written program, printable the moment someone asks. The office filters by crew, date range or topic and prints the set as one PDF, so a GC asking for "last quarter on the Riverside job" gets exactly that. When it is an inspector asking, the record is what stands between you and a citation: federal OSHA's penalties currently reach $16,550 per serious violation.
| Attendee | Signature | Signed |
|---|---|---|
| M. Alvarez | 7:12 AM | |
| D. Whitfield | 7:12 AM | |
| J. Okoro | 7:13 AM |
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You pay for user accounts, not for your crew.
An account is for whoever runs meetings or reads records; your crew never needs one, however many there are. Most outfits need a few - a foreman in the field, someone in the office pulling records, cover for whoever is out - which is why most start on Company.
This is where per-seat pricing hurts. Software that charges per worker runs $24 to $29 a head, so a forty-man crew is roughly $1,000 a month. On Company the same crew is $89 a month, because the crew sign from their own phones and never need accounts - and it stays $89 when you take on ten more for a season. If you run trucks, the same forty on Fleet are $199 a month, with the pre-trips, the DOT paperwork and the mileage log in the same place, and still no seats.
Every tier: unlimited crew, unlimited signing, and no account needed for anyone who only signs. Cancel anytime from your own dashboard.
14-day trial on every tier, then billed monthly.
Nothing charged for 14 days A card is needed to start. It goes to Stripe, never to us Cancel from your own dashboard before then and you pay nothing
- Signed, sealed records for every meeting
- Your state's deadline, counted down per crew
- One phone passed around, no app to install
- Print them all as one PDF when a GC asks
- Everything in Crew
- Job safety analysis, signed on the tailgate
- Everyone signs on their own phone at once
- The prequal packet a GC asks for
- Everything in Company
- Automatic meetings on a schedule you set
- Equipment: every truck, its pre-trips and repairs
- Mileage and PTO hours, split at the state line
Compare every feature, tier by tier
| Crew $29$295 |
Company $89$907 |
Fleet $199$2,029 |
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| Meetings and records | |||
| Topic library, English and Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meeting deadline for your state (WA, CA, OR), per crew if your crews work in different states | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sealed, verifiable records | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Printable PDF records | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Write your own topics | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Who's missing talks, by person | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sealed record emailed when a meeting is filed | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic meetings on a schedule | - | - | ✓ |
| How the crew signs | |||
| Crew signing - nobody who only signs ever needs an account | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Single-device signing (one phone passed around) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optional location on each signature | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Everyone signs on their own phone at once | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Planning the work | |||
| Job safety analysis (JSA), signed and sealed | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Inspection checklists: weekly walk-around, ladder, excavation, PPE, vehicle pre-trip and a CDL pre-trip to the DOT rules, signed and sealed | - | - | ✓ |
| Job calendars: jobs read from the crew's own calendar, with the meeting and the JSA one tap away | - | - | ✓ |
| Your crew | |||
| Crew roster and certification expiration alerts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Certification matrix across your crew | - | - | ✓ |
| Required certifications by role | - | - | ✓ |
| Compliance register to hand a GC | - | - | ✓ |
| A crew page of their own: one QR in the shop, an Employee ID and a four-digit PIN, and the crew reach today's talk, the analysis, their miles and the safety manual without being sent a link. Saves to their phone like an app; never a seat | - | - | ✓ |
| Vehicles and equipment | |||
| Equipment: every truck, trailer and machine with its pre-trips, its open repairs and its DOT annual inspection date | - | - | ✓ |
| Repairs closed out: who did the work - your own crew or an outside shop by name - the invoice or a photograph of it, a safety team member's signature, and a seal. Scheduled maintenance filed the same way | - | - | ✓ |
| Mileage and PTO hours per truck: both meters at each end of the day, signed going out and coming back, days worked out of state split at the line for a fuel-tax return, out as a spreadsheet or CSV | - | - | ✓ |
| The last report on the vehicle put in front of the driver signing the new one, with any defect still open, as 49 CFR 396.13 requires | - | - | ✓ |
| Your paperwork, in your name | |||
| Written safety program from a ten-minute wizard - Washington's Accident Prevention Program, California's IIPP, Minnesota's AWAIR program, Nevada's or Hawaii's written program, or the federal accident prevention program - in your name, signed and sealed | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Document folder and prequalification packet for a GC | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| SOP sign: a QR code the crew scans to read the safety manual and your standards, no login | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your logo on the signing page, the records print and the prequal packet | - | ✓ | ✓ |
| Accounts and billing | |||
| User accounts | 2 | 6 | 15 |
| A dashboard for the safety team, built for a phone: the things they do, chosen by you, each of them still limited by their own role | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roles: Owner, Superintendent, Office, Safety officer, Foreman | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Access set per person, beyond the role | - | - | ✓ |
| Trial before anything is charged | 14 days30 days | 14 days30 days | 14 days30 days |
How Tailboard compares to paper, free PDFs, Raken and SALUS - the same features, side by side with what else you might use.
No contract either way. Cancel from your dashboard and export your records as PDF whenever you like. Paying yearly saves 15% and makes the trial 30 days instead of 14; nothing is charged until the trial ends, and after that payments are not refunded - cancelling stops the next one and you keep the service through what you have paid for. Fifteen user accounts is the most you can buy here; the crew who only sign are free and unlimited on every tier. If you genuinely need more, see Tailboard Enterprise or write to support@tailboardsafety.com and we will quote for it.
General contractors, or more than 15 account users? Every sub's safety records on every job, alerts, insurance and a gate sign-in.Check out Enterprise →Read one before you buy.
The whole talk, nothing held back: the line it opens on, the points in the order you would say them, and the line to end on. Every topic cites its standard and carries an illustration.
Setting an extension ladder at the right angle
Everybody here has set a ladder a thousand times. The one that hurts you will be set exactly the way the other nine hundred were.
- Set the base one foot out for every four feet of working length. On a 16-foot climb, that's four feet from the wall.
- Extend the ladder at least three feet above the landing so there is something to hold while stepping off.
- Tie off the top, or have someone foot the ladder until it is secured.
- Face the ladder and keep three points of contact. Carry tools on a belt, not in your hand.
- Check the rails and rungs before you climb. A bent or cracked ladder comes out of service, not back on the truck.
Before you walk away: look at the base of the ladder you are about to climb. If it is not one out for four up, fix it before you go up.
29 CFR 1926.1053 · about five minutesQuestions about OSHA, signatures, DOT paperwork or refunds: straight answers, on one page.
The four things people ask first.
Straight from the questions page, where the rest are.
Is a drawn signature legally binding?
Treat it as an attendance record, with the same weight as the paper sign-in sheet it replaces - not an identity-verified electronic signature, and not sold as one. What you get is a sealed record of who signed, when, and on which device, which is what an inspector or a GC asks to see.
Do my crew need accounts?
No, and they never become a seat. They tap a link and sign; on Fleet they also get a page of their own - one QR code in the shop, an Employee ID and a PIN - for today's talk, their miles and the safety manual. The seats you pay for are the people who run meetings and read records.
Can you record where someone signed?
Yes, and it is off unless you switch it on. The signing page says so, the phone asks permission, and anyone who declines can still sign.
What happens to my records if I cancel?
They stay readable during the export window, so stopping billing does not lock you out of your own history. Read it, copy it, or email any record to yourself while you are there - it is yours.
Start with this week's meeting. The rest is there when you need it.
A 14-day trial, no contract, and you cancel from your own dashboard.