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City of Calgary and Edmonton contracts
Won a City contract and need a project-specific health and safety plan before you can start? Our safety experts build the full package on the City's own structure, with hazard assessments, procedures, forms and emergency contacts, so it clears the City's safety review and your crew can get to work.
Response to City review
Revision 1 - where each item is addressed
Activity hazard assessment
HA-03 Concrete grinding - pathway
Project specific health and safety plan
Sample Contractor Ltd. - 2026 pathway repair program
City of Calgary
Under the City's 2026 Standard General Conditions for construction, you submit a health and safety plan for review and written approval before you get site access. It is written on the City's Project Specific Health and Safety Plan form, which has 12 sections.
Sources: Standard General Conditions Construction 2026 (sections 8.1 and 12) and the City's construction procurement forms. Serving Calgary? See our Calgary safety services.
The City's review
The City's safety advisor checks every plan against nine pass or fail items, and work cannot start until it passes. Most rejections come from the same few gaps. Pick an item to see what reviewers flag and how we write it.
4 of 9 pass
Why it fails
Hazards are named but not how each control is carried out. Silica, public protection, harassment, violence and fatigue are often missing.
How we write it
An activity hazard assessment for every task, with engineering, administrative and PPE controls written as actions, plus a silica exposure control plan.
Based on the gaps we see most often on City reviews. Every review is decided by the City's safety advisor.
The package
Everything the reviewer needs, cross-referenced so they can find it. Here is a sample for a fictional company, Sample Contractor Ltd.
| RISK RATING Severity x Probability = Overall | ||||||
| Step | Hazard | S | P | O | Control type | Controls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Step 2 - Grinding the raised edge | ||||||
| Operate the grinding head along the joint | (H) Respirable crystalline silica dust | 3 | 2 | 6 | Engineering | Water suppression on the head at all times. Work stops if the water supply fails. |
| Administrative | Silica exposure control plan (Appendix D). Rotate operators. Wet clean-up only, no dry sweeping. | |||||
| PPE | Fit-tested half-face respirator with P100 filters, eye protection. | |||||
| Grinding next to an open pathway | (S) Members of the public entering the work area | 3 | 2 | 6 | Engineering | Barricades and signs at both ends of the work zone. |
| Administrative | A spotter stops work when a pedestrian or cyclist approaches. | |||||
| PPE | High-visibility vest for every worker. | |||||
How it works
Your scope of work, the City's contract or tender details, your crew list and certificates, and any earlier review the City sent back.
One fixed price for the whole package, agreed before we start. No hourly surprises.
The plan on the City's structure, hazard assessments for every task, procedures, forms and emergency contacts, ready to submit.
If the City asks for changes, we make them and give you a response that shows the reviewer where each item is fixed.
The plain-language guide
It is the document that shows the City how your company will keep workers and the public safe on one project. It names the people responsible, the hazards of each task and how they are controlled, the training your crew holds, how incidents are reported, and what happens in an emergency. On a City of Calgary contract it is written on the City's 12-section form and approved before you get site access.
Under the City's 2026 Standard General Conditions, the contractor takes on the Prime Contractor for Safety role for the entire project site, unless the contract's special conditions say the City keeps it. You confirm it in writing on the City's prime contractor acknowledgment form before work starts. Only the prime contractor has to be prequalified; subcontractors work under its plan.
X711 is the Notice of Acknowledgement of Prime Contractor for Safety Designation. X712 is the Project Emergency Contacts form, completed and posted on site. Both sit alongside the X659 plan, and we complete them as part of the package.
Work does not start. The City's safety advisor returns the review with each item marked pass or fail, and you resubmit a revised plan. We rewrite the failed sections and add a one-page response that shows the reviewer exactly where each item is now answered, which is what gets a resubmission through quickly.
Yes. The Standard General Conditions ask for a written orientation agenda to go to the City for review before the meeting. We write the agenda and the orientation record to match the hazards in your plan.
With the plan, before the project starts. The City's plan form asks for hazard assessments to go to the City project manager for review before work begins. We write one activity hazard assessment for each task, with every hazard rated and engineering, administrative and PPE controls written as actions.
Your safety manual covers your whole company. A project safety plan covers one project: this site, this crew, these tasks, this traffic and public exposure, these emergency contacts and hospitals. The plan points back to your manual for company-wide policies, so a clear manual makes the plan shorter and stronger.
Any task that grinds, cuts or crushes concrete, asphalt or aggregate creates respirable crystalline silica. Reviewers look for an exposure control plan by task, wet methods or extraction, a respirator program with fit testing, and how dust and slurry are kept away from the public.
City reviewers can ask for a professional engineer's assessment of equipment that has been built or modified for the job, such as a custom attachment. We flag that equipment early and attach the assessment, with its conditions carried into the hazard assessments and procedures.
Writing the hazard assessments yourself? See our formal hazard assessments. Need the company-wide program the plan refers back to? See custom safety manuals.
Recent City work
Client names are kept private.
A sweeping contractor working City roads overnight.
An equipment operator working inside a City aggregate operation.
The plan had failed City review twice when the City's own safety advisor recommended us to the contractor. We rewrote it, answered every item, and it passed.
City of Edmonton
Edmonton does not publish a fill-in safety plan form like Calgary's. Its requirements sit in the City's Design and Construction Standards and in each contract. We build your project-specific safety plan to those requirements and to your contract's own conditions.
Requirements vary by contract and department. We read yours before we quote.
Source: City of Edmonton Design and Construction Standards, Volume 1. See also our Edmonton safety services.
Why On-Track
Common questions
Tell us about the contract and send any review the City has already returned. We reply with a fixed quote.