Plain-spoken safety intelligence for the people who run the floor.
The Sentinel is the Sentinel Safety blog — short, practical reads for safety managers, EHS leaders, and plant and operations managers at small and mid-size manufacturers, warehouses, construction firms, and food processors. No fluff, no vendor-speak: hazards, systems, and the habits that close the loop. Start with the free OSHA checklist.
Lockout/Tagout Basics: Control the Energy Before It Controls You
The machine doesn't care that you were only reaching in for a second. The six-step lockout/tagout sequence from 29 CFR 1910.147 — notify, shut down, isolate, lock and tag, release stored energy, verify — explained in plain language.
Overdue Corrective Actions: Why They Pile Up and How Good Systems Close Them
Your overdue list isn't a paperwork problem — it's a live inventory of known risk. The five reasons corrective actions die in spreadsheets, and the four habits that close them for good.
The 60-Second Walk: Spot Hazards Before Your Shift Starts
The most dangerous hazard on your floor is the one everybody walks past. A one-minute pre-shift walk — look down, look up, look at the work — that any supervisor can run, every shift.
About The Sentinel
The Sentinel is published by Sentinel Safety, a safety-intelligence platform being built for small-business safety teams — the safety managers, EHS coordinators, and plant leaders who carry safety for operations of roughly 20 to 500 people, usually without a big corporate staff behind them.
Everything here is educational: grounded in public OSHA standards and recognized safety practice, written the way we'd want it explained to us — plainly, with the regulation cited when one applies and an honest note when something is good practice rather than law. No invented statistics, no war stories, no results we can't back up.
Sentinel Safety is in active development. What exists today: safety dashboards, safety observations, corrective action tracking, and reporting — offered through a Founding Pilot ($2,500) and Starter plan ($299/mo). The fastest way to see what we're about is the free OSHA checklist, or reach us at Ant@sentinelsafetyhq.com.