Tailboard vs SALUS.
SALUS runs a whole safety programme, and their toolbox talk is genuinely clever. Tailboard does one job and finishes it. The question isn't which is better — it's whether you have a safety programme to run.
Different sizes of tool.
SALUS's modules, from their own platform menu. Toolbox talks is one of them. For us it's the whole product.
Side by side
SALUS's column comes from their own public pages. No price, because they don't publish one.
| SALUS | Tailboard | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Quote only | $29, $59 or $129, on the page |
| How you start | A specialist calls you back | Card into Stripe, two minutes |
| Set-up | They configure your forms and processes | Pick a topic and send the link |
| Proving a record wasn't edited | Not described publicly | Sealed and chained. Anyone can check the code |
| Signing | QR scan, checked against the site list | Any phone, nothing to install |
| Where the talks come from | Rosie writes one from your live site data | A fixed library, plus your own |
| Everything else in safety | Permits, incidents, inspections, SDS, equipment | None |
Why small is the point.
SALUS has around 70 staff, $10M raised, and 14,000 companies on the platform. We're one person in Kennewick. Here's what that buys you.
You're running by Monday, not next quarter
No configuration project, no forms to migrate, no specialist to book. Pick a topic, send a link, done in five minutes.
You can see the price before you talk to anyone
$29 a month, on the page. Nobody calls you back to scope it.
Your email reaches the person who wrote the code
Not a queue. Usually the same day.
Your crew never lands on the bill
Fifty people on site can run on three accounts. Everyone who only signs is free.
When SALUS is the better buy.
They're ahead of us in real ways. If any of these is you, go and talk to them.
You want the talk written for today's site
Their AI drafts one from yesterday's findings, the weather, and the high-risk tasks on the schedule. Ours is a library. Theirs is better at being specific.
You need the whole safety programme
Permits, incidents, inspections, corrective actions, SDS. If a concern raised in a talk should become a tracked action, they do that and we don't.
You have a safety director
Someone whose job is safety will use the depth properly. We're for outfits where the owner does it between other work.
You want verified attendance
Their QR sign-in checks against the site list. Ours records who signed, not who was on site today.
And the obvious one.
SALUS has been going since 2018, is rated 4.7 on G2, and says it protects 140,000 workers a day. We launched this month. If you need certainty your safety software will still exist in five years, that's a real argument for them.
So we made sure you're never trapped
Every seal code is emailed to you the moment a record is created, so the proof lives in your inbox, not only on our servers. Export to PDF any time. Cancel and you keep read access for 90 days.
And you can test it before you commit
Run a real meeting with a real crew in the first fourteen days, then decide. You'll know inside a week whether it fits how you work.
Read a full talk before you decide.
One of ours, on the home page, with nothing held back.
Sources: SALUS's own platform, pricing and about pages, and their published G2 rating. Checked September 2026; any of it can change. Something wrong here? Tell us and we'll fix it.