Free Resources

These resources are designed to give you tools you can use right away. These are not meant to be plug-and-play solutions for every situation. 
These tools work best when they’re modified to fit your actual environment, with your people, and adapted to your risks and resources. The best version of a Noncompliant Safety tool is the one that helps your team take ownership, understand risk, and make safer decisions.

This progression model provides a roadmap for organizations looking to shift from compliance-driven safety to a true culture of Noncompliant Safety.

Progression Model (PDF)

This tool is designed to help you engage in practical, risk-based safety conversations that avoid compliance lectures and instead invite real dialogue, insight, and change.



Conversation Strategies That Work (PDF)

Tips and examples of questions and tactics to use during field observations.

Field Observation Tips & Example Questions (PDF)

The Field Risk Observation Guidelines (FROGs) program is designed to improve workplace safety, foster trust, and proactively identify and manage risks through direct, positive interactions with employees in the field.

Field Risk Observation Guidelines (PDF)

These tools are designed specifically for conducting Noncompliant Safety Investigations. The goal of these tools is to move beyond compliance and blame, helping you to uncover real risks and implement meaningful safety improvements.

Noncompliant Investigations Tools (PDF)

Use this outline to build practical, discussion-based training focused on real risks and outcomes.

Safety Training Presentation Outline (PDF)

The Noncompliant Task Risk Register (NTRR) is a proactive, simple, and powerful metric designed to help organizations prioritize safety efforts, manage risks effectively, and measure the real-world impact of safety improvements.

Noncompliant Task Risk Register (PDF)

This tool provides a practical, easy-to-use tool designed to audit and evaluate existing safety policies and procedures according to the Noncompliant Safety “Guidelines with Guardrails” methodology.

Policy or Procedure Audit Tool (PDF)

This tool provides a practical, easy-to-use tool designed to write or rewrite safety policies and procedures, aligning them with the Noncompliant Safety “Guidelines with Guardrails” methodology.

Policy or Procedure Design/Redesign Tool (PDF)

This matrix is designed to help identify and address common barriers to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) use.

PPE Barrier and Solution Matrix Tool (PDF)

This document provides a clear, actionable tool for supervisors, safety professionals, and team leaders to effectively respond when employees “tell on themselves,” ask indirect questions, or raise safety concerns proactively.

Response Guide for Self-Reporting Tool (PDF)

The RISC tool is designed to be a simple, accessible, and practical approach to job safety analysis. It emphasizes a proactive, risk-based method to help employees at any level consistently recognize and manage risks in their everyday tasks.

RISC (Recognize, Identify, Score, Control) Tool (PDF)

This tool supports meaningful, practical changes in your safety program, shifting the culture and practices from compliance-driven metrics to results-driven actions.

Safety Results Through Meaningful Changes Tool (PDF)

The Simple Task Risk Evaluation (STRE) is a straightforward and practical method designed to help safety professionals, supervisors, and managers quickly and effectively assess the risks associated with specific tasks.

Simple Task Risk Evaluation Tool (PDF)

This progression model provides a roadmap for organizations looking to shift from compliance-driven safety to a true culture of Noncompliant Safety.

Simplified Safety Progression Model (PDF)

This tool provides a practical resource designed to help shift your safety mindset. It challenges outdated assumptions, reframes common safety statements, and offers improved ways to communicate effectively in the field.

The Safety Reset Tool (PDF)

This PowerPoint presentation covers the topic of Stop Work Authority with an emphasis on Psychological Safety and overcoming fear or uncertainty about speaking up about safety concerns.

Stop Work and Psychological Safety (ppt)

These materials are provided for general information and educational purposes only and do not constitute legal, regulatory, or professional safety advice. Users are responsible for evaluating risks and complying with applicable laws, regulations, and organizational policies when applying any information or tools.