Owner and general contractor requirements often specify a dedicated safety professional on site — sometimes by headcount ratio, sometimes by scope. That requirement arrives with a mobilization date. Recruiting, vetting, and onboarding a qualified construction safety professional does not fit inside it.
The other version of the problem is coverage gaps: a safety manager stretched across four projects, an extended leave, a peak phase where a single person cannot walk the work, or a serious event that suddenly requires daily field presence.
We place safety professionals who have worked construction — people who can read an AHA, hold a pre-task planning conversation with a foreman, and make a defensible call on a hazard without stopping the whole project to ask.