NCMS out of the game

As many of you probably have heard, National Compliance Management Services, Inc (NCMS) is no longer performing safety manual audits for OSHA and PSM compliance. This has left many operators scrambling to find a new safety manual auditor. This week, I just finished our new online safety manual auditing interface, built on the robust platform that we developed several months ago when we completely digitized the prequalification process. At PICS, we anticipate picking up several of NCMS' former clients, and are quite certain that once companies get used to using our easy-to-use online database to screen their contractors, it won't be long before they start asking themselves if a safety manual audit alone is sufficient to verify that their contractor are implementing their programs.

Recently my partner, John, presented to Conoco Phillips about how our auditors can actually go in and verify most of the data we collect in the pqf, and how they can then run reports based on any of those questions to see how many and what percentage of their preferred contractors are compliant. They have been somewhat lax in the past, but now with our tight system, they're going to start cracking down and enforcing a no exceptions policy to make sure they aren't exposing themselves to any unnecessary risk by not using PICS audited contractors.


Jeff Jensen
The Contractor Qualification Expert