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.

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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

Large equipment being delivered and set at a plant site

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.

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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.

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Coming soon · MS2™ Risk Check app

Manage the risks, not the paperwork.

We're building an app that 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. It's not available yet. Leave your name and we'll let you know when it launches.

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What it will do

Risk checks for foremen, managers, and planners
Permits, training plans, and inspection sheets
AHAs for RFP submittals

The Profit Parasite artwork — Artwork © 2026 Make Safety Make Sense, LLC

We know where your money is leaking.

We've identified 23 common Profit Parasites: policies and procedures that cost companies money and add nothing to safety. Most companies have several.

Find Your Profit Parasites

Featured Profit Parasites

Two we find on almost every site.

A Profit Parasite is a policy or procedure that costs you money and adds nothing to safety. There is only safe or not safe. We've identified 23 that show up on almost every site. Here are two.

Featured Profit Parasite

Doing the Contractor's Training for Them

You're paying to train people your contractors are already required to train.

It starts with an assumption: the contractor hasn't trained their crew until they prove otherwise. So the owner covers it. The client rep, the project team or a third-party safety professional spends 2 to 4 hours walking each contractor's crew through subjects OSHA already requires the contractor to cover.

That time adds up fast. At 3 hours per contractor, a project with 10 contractors burns 30 hours. At $100 an hour for your own HSE manager or a third-party safety professional, that's $3,000 per project, time your safety people aren't spending on real hazards.

And you still don't know if the contractor's training was ever done.

We address this through our audits and inspections, or a full-time safety professional on your project who knows what the standard requires and verifies the training, freeing your HSE team for their own work.

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Featured Profit Parasite

Tying Off on Portable Ladders

Many clients require workers to tie off on portable ladders. OSHA doesn't, and the rule costs real money.

Before anyone climbs, the crew has to find or rig an anchor point, get up to it and connect. That setup time is paid time, and much of it is spent exposed to the very fall the rule is meant to prevent.

One of our case-study clients, a large plant with a $30 million a year maintenance budget, had this rule on its site:

Times per year	50
Crew size	5
Hours lost each time	1
Labor rate	$50/hr
Cost per year	$12,500

Cut the frequency in half and it still costs $6,250 a year. Requiring a ladder holder on top of the tie-off added another $2,500.

We show you where this rule is costing you and what to do instead.

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20 more are waiting on your site.

These are two of the Profit Parasites we find most often. We've identified 20 more that are common to almost every site, and most companies have several. Find out which ones are eating into your projects.

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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

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.

Staff Your Project

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.

The Profit Preservers artwork — The Profit Preservers

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 23 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.

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Coming soon · MS2™ Risk Check app

Our risk assessments, on your crews' phones.

We're developing MS2 Risk Check, an app built on the same field-proven risk assessments we use in our consulting. It's not available yet. Let us know you're interested and you'll hear from us first when it launches.

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Training

OSHA Outreach courses and customized, site-specific training for manufacturers and contractors nationwide.

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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

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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

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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.

Tell Us What You Need

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.

SS-1

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.

SS-2

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.

SS-3

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.

SS-4

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.

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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

Mar 20271–5

OSHA 30 Hour for Construction

March 1–5, 2027 · Chattanooga, Tennessee

Reserve a Seat

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.

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About

About Troy King

Troy King teaching a training class, September 2026

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.

Work With Troy

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 23 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?

An app we're developing 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. It's coming soon but not available yet. Ask to be notified when it launches.

Contact

Serving clients nationwide.

Send a request below, or call or email Troy directly about consulting, project staffing, training, or the MS2 Risk Check app.

Send us a request

Tell us what you need and Troy will get back to you personally.

Or reach Troy directly

Call

318-955-5476

Email

troyking@makesafetymakesense.com

Consulting

Audits, written programs, OSHA and workers' comp, and the Profit Preservation Review.

Get a Consulting Quote

Project staffing

Full-time safety professionals on your site from mobilization to closeout.

Staff Your Project

Training

Open-enrollment OSHA 30, on-site OSHA 10 and 30 classes, and customized courses.

Request a Class

MS2 Risk Check app

Coming soon. Hear first when it launches.

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Safety that pays for itself.

Two ways we help

Their risk becomes your risk.

Training people remember.

Manage the risks, not the paperwork.

What it will do

We know where your money is leaking.

Two we find on almost every site.

Doing the Contractor's Training for Them

Tying Off on Portable Ladders

20 more are waiting on your site.

We've been where you are.

Real solutions, not just rules.

Credentials you can count on.

Consulting

Compliance, the profit-preservation way.

Owner-side construction safety.

Audits and inspections.

Written programs.

OSHA and workers' comp consulting.

Full-Time Project Safety Professionals

Our safety professionals

Turn Profit Parasites into Profit Preservers.

Our risk assessments, on your crews' phones.

Training

OSHA 30 Hour for Construction

OSHA 10 Hour for Construction

Customized Training

PE/PM Specialty Safety© Courses

Fall Protection

Scaffolding

Excavations

Cranes and Rigging

Upcoming Classes

OSHA 30 Hour for Construction

Class policies

About Troy King

Three generations of construction.

From the safety office to the project office.

Trusted nationally.

What you can expect.

Off the clock.

On the job.

Frequently Asked Questions

Serving clients nationwide.

Send us a request

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Consulting

Project staffing

Training

MS2 Risk Check app

Serving clients nationwide.