Fall Protection
Identify fall hazards, evaluate and assess risks, mitigate risks using various platforms and equipment, and learn the inspection requirements of the most common types of equipment and Personal Fall Arrest Systems.
Safety that pays for itself.
National construction safety consulting and OSHA training for manufacturers and contractors, from a 30+ year construction veteran and 40-year trainer.
Trusted by Mars Snacking for eight years.
We also deliver the construction OSHA safety course for another global pet care manufacturer, and have taught OSHA 30 and 10 Hour courses for general contractors nationwide.
Two ways we help
Consulting
Their risk becomes your risk.
When contractors work in your facility, their risk becomes your risk. We help manufacturers manage construction safety on their sites, from contractor oversight and audits to OSHA and workers' comp consulting and written programs that fit how your company actually works. Need someone on site every day? We provide full-time safety professionals for your projects.
Training
Training people remember.
OSHA 10 and 30 Hour for Construction, confined space, excavation, scaffolding, and custom programs built around your site, your hazards, and your crews. Training people remember, because it's built for the people who do the work.
New · MS2™ Risk Check app
Manage the risks, not the paperwork.
Our yearly subscription puts the MS2 safety program on your crew's phones. Answer simple yes/no questions and get a risk level, permits, a training plan, and an inspection sheet before work starts.
With a yearly subscription
- MS2 Risk Check for foremen, managers, and planners
- Optional Safety Manager add-on for AHAs and RFP submittals
- Discounted rates on customized consulting
We know where your money is leaking.
We've identified 20 common Profit Parasites: policies and procedures that cost companies money and add nothing to safety. Most companies have several.
Why Make Safety Make Sense
We've been where you are.
Troy King started as an ironworker apprentice, served 10 years in the Air Force as a trainer and instructor, and has spent more than 30 years in construction safety and operations, from corporate safety director for an ENR Top 100 contractor to construction manager on $20M+ projects.
Real solutions, not just rules.
You get the standard, plus options for meeting it that fit your business and your budget.
Credentials you can count on.
OSHA 500 authorized trainer and NCCER Certified Master Trainer, leading a team of safety professionals with CSP and CHST credentials.
What participants say
“Great job on your training. I learned a lot.”Project Engineer, training participant
Consulting
Consulting
Profit Preservation Through Better Risk Management®
Compliance, the profit-preservation way.
Falling short of OSHA requirements is expensive: citations, injuries, higher premiums, and lost work. We bring your company into compliance, but not by piling on paperwork and procedures. We start with what you already have, cut the Profit Parasites, and build only what protects your people and your bottom line. You end up compliant, safe, and spending less.
Owner-side construction safety.
When contractors work in your facility, their risk becomes your risk. We help manufacturers manage the construction work happening on their sites: contractor prequalification and oversight, multi-employer coordination, and making sure the people you hire work safely under your roof.
Audits and inspections.
Regular site audits that find the hazards before OSHA or an injury does, with practical fixes that fit your budget.
Written programs.
Safety programs written for how your company actually works, not pulled off a shelf. Every program comes with training so your people know how to use it.
OSHA and workers' comp consulting.
Fewer accidents mean lower workers' comp premiums. We show you where your money is going and how to spend it so you meet your safety goals and your financial ones.
On site, every day
Full-Time Project Safety Professionals
Some projects need a safety professional on site every day. We provide experienced, full-time safety professionals who become part of your project team for as long as the work lasts: running daily safety, managing contractors, conducting inspections and training, and keeping your project compliant from mobilization to closeout. You get the expertise without the long-term hire, and Troy King is always a phone call away for our people and yours.
Our safety professionals
- Led by Troy King, an OSHA 500 authorized trainer since 1995 and NCCER Certified Master Trainer, with 30+ years in construction safety
- Credentials across the team include the CSP (Certified Safety Professional), CHST (Construction Health and Safety Technician), and OSHA 500, with team members actively pursuing further certification
- Every safety professional OSHA 30 trained, with years of hands-on field experience
- Troy King backs every placement as an off-site resource and oversight, and he is always available to your team and ours
Profit Preservation Review
Turn Profit Parasites into Profit Preservers.
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A Profit Parasite is any policy or procedure that costs you money and adds nothing to safety. We go through your operation to find them, drawing on the 20 we see most often, and show you exactly what they're costing you and how to turn them into Profit Preservers: practices that protect your people and your bottom line at the same time. For qualifying companies, 10% cost reductions are common.
Our guarantee for qualifying companies: For companies of sufficient size and scope, the savings we identify will cover our consulting fees within one year. We'll tell you up front whether your company qualifies before any work begins.
For MS2™ Risk Check subscribers
Subscribers save on custom consulting.
A yearly MS2 Risk Check subscription puts our risk assessments on your crews' phones, and it comes with discounted rates on customized consulting: written programs, audits, your site's rules built into the app, and the Profit Preservation Review.
Training
Training
OSHA Outreach courses and customized, site-specific training for manufacturers and contractors nationwide.
29 CFR 1926 · OSHA Outreach Training Program
OSHA 30 Hour for Construction
The same OSHA 30 course we deliver for Mars Snacking, a global pet care manufacturer, and general contractors nationwide. Taught by Troy King, an OSHA 500 authorized trainer and NCCER Certified Master Trainer with 30+ years in construction and 40 years as a trainer.
Built for supervisors, foremen, safety leads, and anyone responsible for other people on a construction site. Covers the OSHA construction standards, with a focus on the hazards that actually hurt people: falls, struck-by, caught-in/between, and electrical. You'll leave knowing the rules and practical ways to meet them on the job.
See the full topic list
Fall ProtectionFocus Four · Subpart M
ElectrocutionFocus Four · Subpart K
Struck-ByFocus Four
Caught-In/BetweenFocus Four
CranesSubpart CC
Personal Protective EquipmentSubpart E
Stairways and LaddersSubpart X
Health Hazards: Silica, Asbestos, Lead1926.1153 · 1926.1101 · 1926.62
Hand and Power ToolsSubpart I
Welding and CuttingSubpart J
Steel ErectionSubpart R
Materials HandlingSubpart H
Confined Space EntrySubpart AA
ScaffoldsSubpart L
ExcavationsSubpart P
Managing Safety and HealthSafety audit process
Client-specific topicsYour site, your hazards
- Length
- 30 hours over four and a half days. We break every hour instead of every two, because people retain more when they're rested and engaged.
- Format
- Join a regularly scheduled open-enrollment class, or we'll bring the course to your site.
- Card
- Official DOL/OSHA Outreach card
29 CFR 1926 · OSHA Outreach Training Program
OSHA 10 Hour for Construction
The foundation every construction worker should have: hazard recognition, workers' rights, and the basics of staying safe on a jobsite, taught in plain language by someone who has done the work. Taught by Troy King, an OSHA 500 authorized trainer and NCCER Certified Master Trainer.
- Length
- 10 hours over a day and a half, with a break every hour.
- Format
- Taught at your site for your crew. Group discounts for more than 10 participants.
- Card
- Official DOL/OSHA Outreach card
Built around your site
Customized Training
OSHA requires specific training for many construction hazards. We build it around your site, your hazards, and your crews, so it sticks.
Confined space: awareness, attendant, entrant, entry supervisor, rescue
Excavation and trenchingScaffoldingFall protection
Ladders and stairwaysElectrical safetySilica
Hazard communicationRespiratory protectionOther OSHA-required training
Every customized course includes a participant guide, hands-on activities, and a certificate of completion.
Tell us your site, your hazards, and who needs training. We'll put together a course and a quote.
For engineers and project managers
PE/PM Specialty Safety© Courses
Go deeper than the OSHA 30. These courses give project engineers and project managers a more technical understanding of the high-risk work they oversee. Courses are taught live online, so your engineers can join from anywhere. Need a version built around your company and your sites? We'll deliver it on site.
Scaffolding
Identify the different types of scaffolds, evaluate and assess risks, and learn correct installation and breakdown, inspection requirements for the most common types, and the most common contractor errors when using scaffolding.
Excavations
Identify the different types of excavations, evaluate and assess risks, and learn the use of protective systems, inspection requirements, the most conventional protective systems, and the most common contractor errors involving excavations.
Cranes and Rigging
Identify the different types of cranes and rigging, evaluate and assess risks, and learn setup, use and breakdown, inspection requirements, and the most common contractor errors involving cranes and rigging.
What participants say
“Great job on your training. I learned a lot.”Project Engineer
“The key points for each of the training topics. Direct and to the point. Sharing professional and personal stories that applied to the respective training topics.”Project Engineer, on the strengths of the training
Upcoming Classes
Seats are limited. To reserve yours or ask about group rates, call 318-955-5476 or email troyking@makesafetymakesense.com.
Class policies
- Minimum enrollment: classes run with 8 or more paid seats. If a class is under 8 two weeks before the start date, registered students move to the next scheduled class.
- Cancellations: full refund or transfer to another class up to 14 days before the start date. After that, seats can be transferred to a coworker but are not refundable.
Don't see a date that works? We'll bring the course to your site.
MS2™ Risk Check · Coming soon
Manage the risks, not the paperwork.
MS2 Risk Check turns 40 years of field safety experience into simple yes/no questions. Pick your work, answer a few questions, and in minutes you get a risk level, permits, a training plan, and an inspection sheet.
Step 2 of 8 · Activities
Will this job include Confined Space work?
YesNo
Types
Permit-required entryTank cleaningPit / vault
MS2 risk levelHIGH
◎ Level 1 life-saving controls flagged
What it is
Your safety plan, before work starts.
MS2 Risk Check is a phone-and-tablet app built on the MS2 safety program. Pick the activities, tools, and equipment for a job, and the app assigns each one an MS2 risk level using Troy King's field-built risk assessments and SOPs: 112 activities across 20 trades, and 49 tools and pieces of equipment.
It starts from OSHA minimums, and you add your site's own rules on top. The crew gets what it needs before the first tool comes out: a risk report, permits and inspections, a training plan, and an inspection sheet.
How it works
- Name the job.One task for today's crew, or a whole project broken into phases.
- Pick the work, one trade at a time."Will this job include Confined Space work?" Yes or no. If yes, tap the types.
- Pick tools and equipment.The app suggests what the MS2 SOPs call for.
- Answer yes or no.Public nearby? Could it stop production? Recent injuries? Your answers can only raise a risk, never lower it.
- Get your plan.Risk report, permits, life-saving controls, a training plan, an inspection sheet, and AHAs.
Why MS2 is different
Built from real risk assessments.
Every score comes from MS2 field-proven risk assessments and SOPs, not generic checklists.
OSHA minimums, your site's rules.
It starts from OSHA minimums, and you add your site's requirements on top.
Right-sized controls.
MS2 puts controls where the risk is and avoids costly Profit Parasites, like treating every power tool as hot work.
Life-saving controls stand out.
Level 1 critical behaviors are flagged on every report and inspection.
Training gaps are clear.
If a worker isn't trained, the plan says so. Untrained workers don't do the work.
AHAs crews actually read.
MS2 recommends activity AHAs of 3 to 4 pages instead of 30-page project binders. Both are available.
Yearly subscription
Pick the level that fits your role.
MS2 Risk Check is sold as a yearly subscription. The Safety Manager add-on is added on top of either base plan. Company bundles: 10% off for 10 or more users, 20% off for 25 or more.
Founding subscribers save 20% on their first year. Join the launch list to lock in the founding rate.
Base plan
Foreman
Foremen, crew leads, supervisors
- Assess one task per job, trade by trade
- MS2 risk level and 5×5 risk matrix
- Permits and inspections
- Level 1 life-saving critical behaviors
- Training plan and inspection sheet
$300 per user / year
Base plan
Manager / Planner
Project managers, construction managers, planners
- Everything in Foreman
- Whole projects broken into scopes of work: demo, concrete, equipment, conveyors, and more
- Crew size for each phase
- One rolled-up report for the whole project
$540 per user / year
Add-on
Safety Manager
Safety managers and safety professionals
- Builds the safety documents from the PM/CM's assessment
- Activity AHAs (MS2 recommended, 3 to 4 pages each) or one Project AHA
- Ready for RFP submittals, then issued to the field after award
- Profit Preserver content (coming)
+$480 per user / year
Every subscription includes
- Discounted consulting: 10% off Make Safety Make Sense consulting for companies with 1 to 9 users, 20% off for 10 or more.
- Direct phone and email support from Troy King: 2 hours a month for company plans (5 or more users, or the Safety Manager add-on) and 1 hour a month for single users.
- A written safety plan at no charge with the Safety Manager add-on or 10 or more users.
- OSHA training credit: a $150 credit for every 10 users, good toward an OSHA 30 seat or an on-site OSHA 10 class.
Support hours do not roll over. See our consulting services.
Who it's for
Built for the people who plan and do the work.
Foremen and supervisors, project and construction managers, and safety professionals at contractors working in operating plants and on new construction.
Built by Troy King
- OSHA 500 authorized trainer since 1995
- NCCER Certified Master Trainer
- 30+ years in construction safety
MS2 Risk Check supports, and does not replace, a competent person's review. MS2™ is a trademark of Make Safety Make Sense, LLC.
About
About Troy King
Three generations of construction.
Troy King's construction roots go back three generations. He started as an ironworker apprentice right out of high school, then served 10 years in the U.S. Air Force, where he began his 40-year career as a trainer and instructor, before coming back to the trade as an ironworker. That's where he saw the opportunity to make a difference, in an industry where it was still considered a good day if no one was killed or hospitalized.
Troy paid for his first safety course himself. He still calls it the most rewarding investment of his life.
OSHA 500 Authorized Trainer since 1995
NCCER Certified Master Trainer
40 years as a trainer
30+ years in construction
From the safety office to the project office.
Troy served as corporate safety director for an ENR Top 100 government contractor, where four projects under his direction earned national safety awards. He then moved to the operations side as a construction manager on $20M+ projects, bringing safety, risk management, and behavioral safety into how the work got done, and earning national safety awards there too.
That combination is rare. Troy understands safety the way a safety director does and the way a project manager does, which means he knows how to protect people without wrecking the schedule or the budget.
Trusted nationally.
Today, Make Safety Make Sense provides consulting, training, and full-time project safety professionals to manufacturers and contractors nationwide. For eight years, Troy has worked with Mars Snacking, delivering OSHA 30 training and helping manage construction safety at their facilities, and he delivers the construction OSHA safety course for another global pet care manufacturer. He has also taught OSHA 30 and 10 Hour courses for general contractors nationwide.
What you can expect.
Clients get more than the standards and rules. They get real-life solutions, options for implementation, and alternatives that fit their business and their budget. And the training? People remember it, because it's built for the people who do the work.
Troy has been an OSHA 500 authorized trainer since 1995 and is a Certified Master Trainer through the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER).
Off the clock.
Troy loves a challenge, his Harley-Davidson, his 6 children, and his 14 grandchildren (with hopefully more to come).
Our Work
On the job.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Please reach us at troyking@makesafetymakesense.com or 318-955-5476 if you can't find an answer to your question.
What is Make Safety Make Sense about?
Make Safety Make Sense provides construction safety consulting, training, and full-time project safety professionals for manufacturers and the contractors who work on their sites. We show you how to keep your people safe while identifying high-risk activities and cost-effective ways to manage them.
What are Profit Parasites?
Profit Parasites are policies and procedures that cost you money and add nothing to safety or to your work. In some cases, they're simply wasting money. We've identified 20 that we see most often. One of the most common is going beyond the standard to "make it safer." There is only safe or not safe. Anything past safe is wasted time and money.
What are Profit Preservers?
We use the term two ways. First, a process that can be revised to save you money is a Profit Preserver. Second, we use it to recognize the people in the profit preservation fields: safety, legal, human resources, and others.
Do you work outside your home area?
Yes. We serve clients nationwide, both for consulting and for on-site training.
Can individuals sign up for OSHA 30?
Yes. Our OSHA 30 Hour classes are regularly scheduled and open to individual enrollment. OSHA 10 is taught at your site for your crew. See Upcoming Classes on the Training page, or contact us to reserve a seat.
Can you train our crews at our site?
Yes. We deliver OSHA 10 and 30, and customized training such as confined space, excavation, and scaffolding, at your facility, built around your hazards.
What is the MS2 Risk Check app?
A phone-and-tablet app, sold as a yearly subscription, that turns the MS2 safety program into simple yes/no questions and produces a risk report, permits, a training plan, and an inspection sheet for each job. The Safety Manager add-on also builds AHAs for RFP submittals. Subscribers get discounted rates on customized consulting. Learn more.
Contact
Serving clients nationwide.
Call or email Troy directly about consulting, project staffing, or training.
Call
318-955-5476Consulting
Audits, written programs, OSHA and workers' comp, and the Profit Preservation Review.
Get a Consulting QuoteProject staffing
Full-time safety professionals on your site from mobilization to closeout.
Staff Your ProjectTraining
Open-enrollment OSHA 30, on-site OSHA 10 and 30 classes, and customized courses.
Request a ClassMS2 Risk Check app
See the app in action and hear first when yearly subscriptions open.
Request a Demo