ISNetworld-ready without a full-time safety person

Most small service companies in the basin don't go looking for ISNetworld. The oil company you work for, which ISNetworld calls your hiring client, tells you that you need to be in it, and graded, before your crew can go on their lease. Other prequalification networks work much the same way. If you have a full-time safety person, it lands on them. If you don't, it lands on the owner or whoever runs the office, on top of everything else.

This page is for that second company. It covers what the networks ask for, where small companies usually lose points, and what F&H STAC does about it.

What the networks ask for

Each hiring client sets its own requirements inside the network, and the lists change, so the one your hiring client sent you is the one that counts. In practice it comes down to the same handful of things every time:

• Your injury numbersThree years of OSHA 300A summaries, your TRIR and DART, and your EMR letter from your insurance carrier.
• Written safety programsPrograms that cover the work you actually do, with a real person named as responsible and a review date.
• Training recordsWho is trained in what, when they finished, and when each certification needs to be renewed.
• InsuranceCurrent certificates with the specific limits and endorsements the hiring client asks for.

Your packet is checked by a reviewer, usually called a prequalification coordinator. That is the person at the hiring client, or at the network itself, whose job is to go through contractor paperwork and approve companies to work. I wrote up the full list, in the order the reviewer goes through it, in the contractor prequalification packet.

Where small companies lose points

Usually it isn't a missing document. It's two documents that disagree. The TRIR typed into the form doesn't match the 300A attached to it. A program still names somebody who left last year. A certification was current when you uploaded it and expired before anyone reviewed it. Each of these costs points, and they all happen for the same reason: the information lives in four places and nobody owns keeping them in step.

What F&H STAC does about it

• Your numbers come from your own logIncidents go in once, from the phone. The ISN Statistics module works out your injury rates and three-year numbers from that same record, ready to enter in ISNetworld, so the form and the 300A can't drift apart.
• You can see what's missing before the hiring client doesPrequalification Readiness shows how ready you are for each hiring client's requirements, and what's still missing.
• Programs that fit your workWritten programs are checked element by element against what the OSHA and DOT rules for your kind of work require, not copied from a binder.
• Warnings before things lapseTraining, certifications and insurance each have a date, and you get a warning before they expire instead of finding out from the hiring client's reviewer.
• The packet itselfOn the Complete and Premier plans, we put together your prequal packet for ISNetworld and similar networks.

What it doesn't do

F&H STAC isn't part of ISNetworld or any other prequalification network. You keep your own account with them, and the submission is still yours. Nobody can promise you a grade, because the hiring client sets it. What we can do is make sure that what you submit is complete, current and consistent, which is where most lost points come from.