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Prequalification Guide

What are Avetta's compliance requirements?

Four categories, one of which you can fix this week — and it's the one that fails most first submissions.

Short answer

What are Avetta's compliance requirements for contractors?

Avetta evaluates four things: written safety programs covering the hazards in your scope of work, injury and illness statistics (typically TRIR, DART, and EMR for three years), insurance certificates carrying the limits and endorsements your hiring client specifies, and training records for the crews doing the work. Requirements are set per hiring client, so two contractors in the same trade can owe different document sets. Written programs are where most first submissions fail, because reviewers score content and generic templates do not describe your operations.

The four things Avetta evaluates

1. Written safety programs. Avetta's questionnaires ask whether you have a written program for each hazard category your scope of work touches, and then ask you to upload it. Which programs you owe follows from the tasks you actually perform — see which written programs OSHA requires for the mapping.

2. Injury and illness statistics. TRIR, DART, and often EMR for the last three years, backed by your OSHA 300A summaries and an insurance-issued experience modifier. These are historical facts — you can't rewrite them, but you can make sure the numbers you report reconcile to the documents behind them.

3. Insurance. Certificates showing general liability, auto, workers' compensation, and any umbrella limits your hiring client requires, with the endorsements (additive insured, waiver of subrogation) that client's account specifies.

4. Training records. Evidence that the people doing the work were trained on the programs you submitted — the training obligations attached to each standard, which vary by program.

Why written programs are where submissions fail

Statistics and certificates are what they are. Programs are judged on content, and the common rejections are structural rather than substantive: responsibilities not assigned to a named role, procedures written in the abstract instead of describing your actual practice, no training or recordkeeping section, no management signature, or template placeholders left in the document. A reviewer reading a program that never mentions your equipment or your competent person has no way to conclude the program is in use.

The fix is the same one that satisfies OSHA: make the programs specific to your work rather than generic to your trade.

Find your gaps before Avetta does

The free Compliance Readiness Check asks about your work and tells you which written programs your scope triggers — the same list a prequalification reviewer works from. Free, no login.

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A practical order of operations

Determine the programs your scope triggers, write or generate those programs with your own responsibilities and procedures named, attach the training records that correspond to them, then request the insurance endorsements your client's account requires. Doing it in that order avoids the most expensive version of this process: submitting, waiting, being rejected on document content, and restarting the review clock.

If you also hold an ISNetworld or Veriforce account, the categories overlap almost entirely — see how the three portals differ so you build once and submit three times.

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Common questions

How long does Avetta approval take?
Turnaround depends on the queue and on how complete your first submission is. Document rejections restart the review, so completeness up front is what shortens the cycle.
Does Avetta require the same programs as OSHA?
The overlap is large but not identical. Avetta asks for the written programs the OSHA standards applicable to your scope require, plus program areas hiring clients add contractually, such as disciplinary and subcontractor management procedures.
Can I use the same programs for Avetta and ISNetworld?
Usually yes. The written programs are the transferable part; what changes between portals is the questionnaire mapping and each client's thresholds and insurance endorsements.