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Construction & General Contracting
COR documentation, prequalification paperwork and monthly records across multiple active projects.
Workplace Safety Management Platform
All-in-One Safety Management System for Ontario Businesses
Public buyers require a certified safety management system to bid construction work. We build the documented program, then keep the records current every month.
We are not safety consultants. We are the people who keep your compliance documentation audit ready.
Industries
Built for the trades that get screened on it
COR shows up as a prequalification filter long before it shows up as a safety question. These are the contractors it stops first.
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Civil & Infrastructure
Road, excavation and utility contractors bidding municipal and provincial work that screens on certification.
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Electrical & Mechanical
Trade contractors who need a documented program to stay on general contractors' approved lists.
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Interior & Finishing
Drywall, flooring and finishing crews whose paperwork has to keep pace with fast project turnover.
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Industrial & Plant Services
Maintenance and plant contractors working to owner-mandated safety documentation standards.
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Specialty Trades
Smaller specialised contractors who need the same 14 elements evidenced without a full-time safety manager.
Why BidStanding
One system. Every element evidenced.
Most contractors run safety across spreadsheets, paper forms, a shared drive and somebody's inbox. We consolidate the records that the COR audit actually scores into one maintained system, and we keep it current for you.
- Every record mapped to the element it has to evidence
- Training expiries flagged before they lapse, not after
- Corrective actions tracked through to closure
- Audit evidence assembled and ready on the day it is asked for
- Works with the tools you already use, with nothing to migrate
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Why a retainer, not a project
Certification is year one. The obligation doesn't end there.
COR is not a certificate you earn and file away. It is a standing documentary duty with a submission deadline every year you hold it.
Year 1
Certify
Build the program, run the internal audit, pass the third-party external audit.
Year 2
Maintenance audit
An internal maintenance audit by your own trained auditor, submitted to IHSA at least 60 days before your anniversary date.
Year 3
Maintenance audit
Again. Same thresholds, same deadline, same evidence requirements against all 14 elements.
Year 4
Recertify
Back to a full third-party external audit, and the cycle starts over.
Miss a maintenance submission and your listing goes to pending, then suspended. The bidding access goes with it, usually at the worst possible moment, because you find out when a general contractor checks the registry during prequalification.
This is why we work on a retainer rather than a project fee. A firm that builds your program and moves on has handed you a binder and a recurring deadline you still have nobody to meet. The monthly record keeping is the product.
Common questions
What contractors ask first
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. IHSA issues the certificate, not us. The outcome depends on your worker interviews, your site conditions and clearing the minimum score on every element, none of which any outside firm controls. What we commit to is that your documentation and evidence are complete and audit ready.
No. We do compliance administration: documentation, record keeping and audit preparation. We do not perform site safety inspections, we do not assess your hazards for you, and we do not sign off on or approve anything. Your supervisors tell us how the work is done and own the content; we turn it into the documented system IHSA expects and keep it maintained.
No. IHSA requires your internal auditor to be a permanent full-time employee of your company, trained through IHSA. This is the one role that cannot be outsourced to anybody. We help you pick the right person, get them booked into training, and prepare them for the audit, but the role is theirs.
It varies with how much of a program you already have and how quickly your team returns monthly paperwork. We will give you a realistic timeline after the gap assessment, based on your actual starting point rather than a brochure figure.
Often, yes, right up until the internal audit year lands while they are on vacation, or the one person who knew where the inspection records lived moves on. The failure mode is always the same: the program lives in one inbox and one filing cabinet. What you are buying from us is that the evidence sits in a maintained register, on a deadline calendar, with a second set of hands on it.
No. We work inside whatever you already use: a shared drive, Excel, binders, or a field app you already pay for. We do not sell software and we do not require you to migrate anything to work with us.
An onboarding fee to build the program, then a monthly retainer to run it, which steps down once you are certified and in maintenance. The exact figure depends on your headcount, your trades and how much documentation already exists, which is what the gap assessment establishes. We quote after we have seen where you actually stand, not before.
Find out which COR elements you would fail today.
A free gap assessment scored against all 14 elements, with a written report. About 45 minutes of your time.