Saw Time Safety puts the pre-task plan on the phone your crew already carries, drafts the first pass with AI, and makes every man think the job through before the first cut. Signed by the crew. Filed at the office. Built to train a fleet, not to fill a binder.
Safety first is not a poster on the trailer wall. It is a habit, and habits are built one morning at a time. Every day this app puts the questions in front of a man in his own words, and every day he answers them before the first cut. Do that for a season and it builds 360-degree awareness on the site and real safety habits that stick. Done right. Done safe. And at the end of the day, home.
Truck #7 is parked at the job and nobody has pulled a cord yet. Danny opens Safety, taps New pre-task plan, then taps Talk the walk and says the job the way he’d tell the crew. The phone listens; nothing leaves it. These are his words, exactly as they landed in the box:
One tap, and his words come back as the sheet’s rows: six steps in the order he’ll do them, each with its real hazard and the action that controls it. Nothing he didn’t say or that a cutter wouldn’t know follows from it. He said other trades, so the first step is talking to them. He said cords, so they go up off the wet floor with the connections kept dry, because the saw runs on 480 and there is no GFCI to hide behind. He said water, so the silica and the slurry are handled. He never said permit, so the permit line stays empty. Then the phone makes him read every line and fix what’s wrong. That’s the training: not a lecture, a question, every morning, until thinking it through is just how the day starts.
Twenty-three of them, in the crew’s own words. His walk already answered some: he walked the area, he contacted the other trades, the area is congested with other crafts. Those come in filled. The rest he answers with a tap, and an unanswered question sits there until he does. Where’s the nearest eyewash — not “is there one,” where is it. If the scope changes after this, the sheet says it in capital letters: stop work, new plan.
Every man on the task signs on the phone — foreman, crew, safety if they’re on site. The foreman taps Complete and the plan locks like ink, stamped with the minute it happened. Nobody edits a signed plan. Not the foreman, not the office, not us. Two minutes later Danny punches onto the job and the saw starts.
Two sheets, the way the crew has always known them: the walk-through and what the task requires, the steps-hazards-controls breakdown, and the zero-impact plan with the signatures. This one is Concrete Coring Company’s — a real Saw Time company, shown with their permission — so their mark sits on top, not ours and not yours. Print it, save it as a PDF, or leave it filed.
| Items | Specific Location | Specific Mitigation Required | Risk Matrix Level |
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| Valves/Sample Ports/POC’s that extend beyond the last support clamp (i.e. IW POC’s) | |||
| PVC/PVDF POC’s | |||
| Valves/Handles/Dampers that can be bumped | |||
| Transmitters | |||
| MDA Tubing / Area Sensors | |||
| Twist Lock Receptacles | |||
| URW Drain | |||
| Keep items from air intake on abatement units and scrubbers | |||
| System “OFF” buttons | |||
| IW high point vents / POC’s | |||
| Sprinkler Heads | |||
| Main Electrical Disconnects | |||
| EMO’s | |||
| OFA line connections | |||
| Loose cables, flex conduit, high purity tubing | |||
| Other |
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Interruption to Production Assessment
Level 1-Administrative Measures• Caution/Danger Tape; Signage; SM/Crew discussion about risk Level 2-Temporary Measures • Hard barricade installed to prevent damage or accidental shut off; Barricade removed at the completion of work Level 3-Permanent Measures • Permanent guards or barricades installed with appropriate approval and become part of the final installation |
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Types of Hazards:
XPhysical Mechanical XElectrical XChemical Behavioral Biological XErgonomics XOther: Silica (wet method) Other Other
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| Scope of Work: | Line drill 2 × 5 openings through an 8 in. wall, chain saw the edges — other trades working in the area | ||
| Subcontractor | CONCRETE CORING COMPANY | ||
| Specific Location: | Bldg C · L2, east bay | Tool System/Equipment ID: | Core drill rig · chain saw · water tank · vac |
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COMMENTS: Are all permits current?
No permit required for this cut. Trades in the bay told 5:50 — saw runs 6:30 to about 11.
Location of nearest:
MSDS - GC trailer, north gate Phone - Danny cell · GC trailer Fire Ext. - L2 east bay, column C-4 Eyewash - L2 hallway, freight elevator Shower -
L1 loading dock |
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| List Steps Required to Perform Task at Hand. | Hazards | Required Actions to Eliminate or Control The Hazard | |
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| 1) | Walk the area and talk to the other trades | Other trades inside the cut zone; the noise surprises them | Tell them where and when, that it will be loud; keep them out of the cut line |
| 2) | Hang the cords up off the wet floor | 480 cords in water and slurry, trips, shock | Cords hung overhead, connections kept dry, cord and plug checked for nicks |
| 3) | Set the water to the bit and the blade | Silica dust; slurry on the floor is a slip | Wet cut the whole time, contain the slurry, squeegee as it spreads |
| 4) | Line drill the 2 x 5 openings, chain saw the edges | Bit and blade contact, kickback, flying debris, noise | Guard on, both hands on the saw, bit and blade stopped before moving; glasses, gloves, steel toes, hearing PPE |
| 5) | Handle the cut pieces | Wall pieces drop or pinch; heavy lifts | Cut in sections a man can move, nobody under the piece, two men on the lift |
| 6) | Clean up and put the equipment away | Slips on slurry, back strain loading the rig | Vac and squeegee the slurry, wipe down the cords, two men on the rig, walk path clear |
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Your sheet, your words. The questions, the checklist, and the zero-impact items come from the form your crew already uses — we set them up per company, and the wording is yours to change. A permit line reads whatever the site calls it. Nothing on the printed sheet names anyone but the company that owns it.
At the office the plan files by week and by man, right beside the job ticket and the time card for the same day. And because the rest of Saw Time is watching the same morning, the story holds together without anyone telling it:
| Safety says | The rest of the day says | |
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| Pre-task plan completed 5:58 AM · 2 signatures | Truck #7 on site since 5:56 AM (Fleet) | ✓ signed on site |
| Scope: line drill 2 × 5 openings, 8 in. wall | Job ticket 48112 · punched in 6:00 AM (Field Ops) | ✓ plan before the punch |
| Hazard: other trades in the cut zone · cords hung, trades told | Ticket photo: cords overhead, bay taped off | ✓ control in the picture |
Why that matters. When a GC, an insurer, or an inspector asks what your crew did before they started cutting, you don’t reach for a binder. You open the day. The plan was signed at 5:58 by two men whose truck was already parked at the address, two minutes before the first punch. Nobody has to remember it, because nobody had to.
A pre-task plan is today. An AHA — Activity Hazard Analysis is the work itself: write it once for wall sawing, or core drilling, or precast penetrations, and it covers every day that activity runs. It is the document a GC asks for before your truck is allowed through the gate.
Nine rows are already written, because they are the same on every one of your jobs. You write one: the task. That is what turns a six-page form into about fifteen minutes.
| Already written for you | You write this |
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| Project access and PPE |
The task step e.g. “Core 4 in. holes through the 8 in. precast wall” its hazards, numbered rebar, conduit, PT cable or pipe in the slab · slurry · working at height and what you do about each one scan and mark before cutting · core catcher · STOP WORK on anything unexpected |
| Work area prep · silica · dropped objects | |
| Heat illness · hot work | |
| The walk before the cut · power tools | |
| Clean-up |
The crew signs it on the job, on one phone. Open the AHA, hand the phone round the circle, each man prints his name and signs on the glass. Five men takes under a minute, and every signature saves the second it is made — so the phone can move on to the next man without waiting, and nothing is lost if somebody walks off mid-way. The names and the dates print on the sheet.
An AHA stays alive. A pre-task plan is stone once it is completed — that is the point of it. An AHA is the opposite: if the plan changes, or after anything unexpected happens, you update it and brief the crew again. Every change is stamped with who made it and when, so “we revised it” is visible rather than quietly true.
Every GC asks for them and nobody enjoys writing them. Pick a topic, go through it with the crew, and they sign in on the phone while you are still standing in the circle — not back at the office from memory, three days later, in one handwriting.
| On the sheet | Where it comes from | |
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| Silica — cutting and coring | a topic you tap, or your own words | ✓ |
| Wet cut · vac the slurry · nobody downwind | the points, ready to read out | ✓ |
| Given by, job, date, emergency number | typed per site — never a default | ✓ |
| Four signatures, timed | signed on the glass, on the job | ✓ |
Closed out is closed out. Once the talk is held it cannot be edited — by anyone, including the office. That is what makes it worth something when a GC asks six months later.
All of them — pre-task plan, AHA, toolbox talk — print on your own letterhead and download as a PDF from the same screen. Because when a GC asks for your safety paperwork, nine times in ten he wants it emailed, and “print, then save as PDF” is not a thing anyone does on a phone standing on a slab.
Nothing on any of them names anyone but you. No other contractor, no site owner, no borrowed phone number. The emergency number is typed for the site you are on, every time — a crew on one job must never be handed another job's number.
The pre-task plan has a line on it for the nearest SDS, and on most jobs the honest answer is “a binder, in the shop, nine miles away”. That is no answer at all at the moment somebody has got coolant in his eye, or a GC is standing at the gate asking what you are using.
The office keeps the sheets — coolant, fuel, cutting oil, epoxy, whatever your crews open a can of — and every man can pull one up on his own phone in two taps. It opens as the manufacturer’s own PDF, so you can show it to a GC or read it straight to the medics.
Read only in the field, and that is the feature. Everything else in Safety is a document a man writes. This is the one he needs handed to him. Nobody but the office can add one or change one — and that is enforced in the database, not just hidden on the screen.
Nothing is ever deleted. When a sheet is superseded the new one goes on top and the old one is kept, so a plan written last year still makes sense when somebody reads it back.
The plan drafts itself from the foreman’s own words, the crew signs it before the first cut, and it files beside the ticket with your logo on top.
Every department has a working example. They are all the real app running a real day.