The problem it solves
Your manual is 60 pages. The question is urgent.
A supervisor needs an answer before the crew starts. A foreman gets a question on site. An owner needs to know if the program covers it. Every day, compliance questions get answered by searching, guessing, or calling someone who’s not available.
Search the manual and give up
Most safety leads skim to the wrong section, find something close, and say "I think we cover that", then hope the auditor agrees. The right answer is in there. Finding it in a 60-page PDF at 7am on a job site is the actual problem.
Google the regulation instead
Provincial OHS Acts tell you what the law requires. They do not tell you whether your program covers it, or whether your coverage is complete enough to satisfy the certifying partner's element scoring. Googling gets you the regulation. The Advisor gets you your manual.
Phone the consultant
Every question that could be answered by pointing to a section in your manual should not cost consulting time. Questions that need expert judgment absolutely do. The Advisor handles the lookup so the consulting conversation stays on what matters.
How it will work
Three steps from question to answer.
What the Advisor is being built to do: plain language in; section title, page number, and coverage status out.
- 01
Ask in plain language
Type the question the way you would say it. "What does our program say about working alone at night on a remote site?" No boolean syntax. No search operators. Just the question.
"What are our fall protection requirements for work at heights?"
- 02
The Advisor reads your manual and your regulations
It searches your uploaded safety manual first. Then cross-references the relevant provincial OHS regulation to check whether your manual coverage matches what the regulation requires.
- 03
You get the citation and the coverage status
Section title. Page number. A short excerpt. And a gap flag if your manual does not fully cover the criteria. You open the manual, verify the citation, and decide what to do next.
"Section 8.3 - Fall Protection / Working at Heights"
You verify the citation before acting on it.
The Safety Advisor points you to the right place in your manual. Your safety lead, supervisor, or owner-operator makes the final call. Every citation requires a human to open the document and confirm before any action is taken.
An illustration
Real questions. Sample citations.
Questions based on what Canadian safety leads and supervisors actually ask every week. Fall protection, working alone, PPE for specific tasks, incident reporting windows.
You asked
Ask about hazard assessments, training requirements, incident reporting, and more. Answers pull from your manual and your provincial OHS regulations.
Join the waitlist to try itIllustration only. The answers and citations above use sample manual content; the Safety Advisor is in development and is not available in the portal yet.
Why it is different
Not generic. Your program.
The difference between a useful answer and a dangerous one is whether the tool is reading your actual documents or guessing from public data.
Your manual. Not the internet.
Generic search tools pull answers from public sources. The Advisor reads your uploaded safety manual and your specific provincial OHS regulations. The citation it returns points to your own document — section title and page number — not a general-purpose answer that may not match your program at all.
Flags gaps before your auditor does.
First-time COR audits frequently surface coverage gaps companies did not know they had. Re-certification audits catch new gaps when certifying partners update their element questions or when provincial regulations change. The Advisor names the gap directly, rather than inventing an answer. Finding a gap yourself is always the better outcome.
Available to your whole team.
The safety lead in the office, the foreman doing a tailgate at 6am, the owner fielding a supervisor question from the road: everyone reads from the same source. No more institutional knowledge living in one person's head. No more inconsistent answers on the same topic across crews.
Provincial coverage is confirmed when the Advisor opens. The OHS requirement library our other portal tools cite from covers Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Ontario today.
Common questions
Questions about the Advisor.
Is the Safety Advisor the same as asking a general chat tool a safety question?
What happens if my safety manual does not cover the topic I asked about?
Is the Safety Advisor available now, and how many questions can I ask?
Join the waitlist
Bring the Advisor to your safety program.
The Safety Advisor is being built into the On-Track Compliance Members Portal. Custom Safety Manual clients from On-Track get early access as it opens.