ISNetworld/Avetta
ISNetworld (ISN) and Avetta are commercial contractor prequalification platforms, not standards. Hiring clients in oil and gas, utilities, chemicals, mining, manufacturing, and facilities management require their contractors to subscribe, upload safety, insurance, and financial information, and meet the client's grading criteria before they can bid or enter a site.
ISN's Review and Verification Services (RAVS) team reviews each contractor's written health, safety, and environmental programs against regulatory requirements (mostly OSHA) and client-specific expectations in a desktop review; Avetta runs a similar document review with client-configured modules. Veriforce, ComplyWorks, and others operate in the same space.
The written programs are requested by hiring clients through the platform: each client decides which programs its contractors must upload, and OSHA separately requires the ones that match the contractor's hazards and trade.
In writing, a contractor typically has to provide a set of written safety programs matched to the work it performs (for example hazard communication, lockout/tagout, fall protection, respiratory protection, confined space, PPE, emergency action, drug and alcohol, driver safety), plus a safety manual, training records, OSHA 300 logs and injury statistics, experience modification rate letters, insurance certificates, and answers to a management system questionnaire.
The platforms check that each program contains the elements the client requires, not whether it is implemented; that is left to client audits.
Who has to comply
Contractors, suppliers, and service providers whose customers require a platform subscription as a condition of doing business. The trigger is purely contractual: a hiring client selects the platform and the contractor must meet that client's configured requirements and pay the subscription.
What the assessor asks to see
Contractor profile and scope of work; management system questionnaire; written safety programs for each applicable topic, each containing the elements on the reviewer's checklist (purpose, scope, responsibilities, procedures, training, recordkeeping); safety manual and policy statement; OSHA 300 and 300A logs or equivalent injury data for three years; experience modification rate and insurance certificates; training records and certifications for specific tasks; drug and alcohol program documents; vehicle and driver records where required; client-specific documents such as site orientation acknowledgments; corrective actions for downgraded programs.
Where the requirement sits: ISNetworld RAVS written-program review; Avetta prequalification questionnaire and document uploads
How grading works
In ISNetworld, RAVS grades each written program A (all required elements present), B (most elements present), or F (significant gaps), and RAVS results typically account for roughly a third of the overall contractor grade; the rest comes from questionnaire answers, insurance, and statistics against client thresholds.
Avetta uses client-configured modules and flags each as compliant or not, with reviewers pointing out the missing elements. In both, a rejected program blocks work for that client until fixed, which is why contractors keep written programs current across every topic their clients select.
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Hazard Communication Program: who needs it, what goes in it, how often it is reviewed and who signs it off. Run exactly that in AllyMatter, alongside every other policy your company keeps.
How it works
Every document is approved by someone other than its author, versioned, distributed to the people it covers and acknowledged by name. Sign it where a signature is what the standard wants, send a set out together as a package, and export a dated record of who read which version when an assessor asks.
Most of what an assessor reads for this standard is written policy and proof that people acknowledged it. That is the layer AllyMatter owns.
Who helps with ISNetworld/Avetta
A large ecosystem of safety consultants specializes in getting contractors to an A grade in ISN or compliant status in Avetta. They write or tailor the written programs to the RAVS or client checklists, assemble the questionnaire answers and statistics, upload documents, track expirations, and respond when a program is downgraded.
Many offer ongoing account management on a monthly fee.
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Who assesses ISNetworld/Avetta
Platform reviewers (ISN's RAVS team, Avetta's review specialists) grading documents against client and regulatory checklists; hiring clients may additionally audit contractors in the field. No independent certification or accreditation exists.
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AllyMatterPolicy management tool, the policy and acknowledgment layerPublisher of this siteRelated reading
- Contractor safety prequalification (Professional Safety, March 2021)Peer-reviewed look at how third-party prequalification schemes actually grade contractors, and how little evidence supports common criteria.American Society of Safety Professionals
- Screening for safetyThe hiring client's side of prequalification: what owners expect a contractor's written program and metrics to show before site access.Safety+Health magazine
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