Avetta Compliance: What Contractors Actually Need
Avetta is a contractor prequalification service: companies that hire contractors use it to vet safety programs, insurance, and performance before awarding work. For a small contractor, Avetta compliance comes down to four things: a completed questionnaire (PQF), an uploaded written safety program with the hazard-specific sections your trade needs, your OSHA 300/300A data and TRIR, and current insurance certificates. Most document rejections happen because the written safety program is generic, missing trade-specific programs, or does not match the questionnaire answers.
What Avetta reviews
- ✓ Prequalification questionnaire: your operations, headcount, hours, and safety answers
- ✓ Written safety program: reviewed section by section against your trade’s risk profile
- ✓ OSHA recordkeeping: 300 logs, 300A summaries, and the TRIR/DART rates they produce
- ✓ Insurance: certificates with the client’s required limits and endorsements
- ✓ Depending on the client: training records, drug and alcohol policy, and specific written programs like fall protection or silica
Why safety program uploads get rejected
Avetta reviewers check that the program names your company, covers the hazards of your actual trade, assigns responsibilities, and includes the specific written programs the client flagged (fall protection for roofers, excavation for plumbers, silica for concrete). A $200 generic manual with your logo pasted on fails those checks, and every rejection cycle costs days while the client’s start date does not move.
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Common questions
▸How much does Avetta membership cost?
Avetta charges contractors an annual membership that varies by client count and services, typically several hundred dollars up. The membership fee is fixed; the avoidable cost is consultant fees and rejection cycles on your documents.
▸Is Avetta the same as ISNetworld?
They are competitors doing the same job for different client lists. The document set is nearly identical, so a written safety program built for one largely satisfies the other.
▸How fast can I become compliant?
Once your documents are in order, review typically takes days. The long pole is usually producing an acceptable written safety program, which is exactly the part you can now generate in minutes.
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