Comprehension Assurance · Ontario-built · For construction crews
Dashpot reads the hazard plan your site already makes every morning and texts each worker a short video and a guided check — no app. What you get back isn't a signature. It's a per-worker, per-hazard record of verified comprehension, dated and attributable.
Cutting concrete block today. Walk me through how you'll control the silica dust.
wet cut. keep water on the blade so dust never goes airborne. respirator if we have to dry cut inside
Close. What do you do if the water feed dies halfway through a cut?
stop cutting. no water, no cut. tell the foreman, swap the feed before we start again
01 / Why we built this
I was running a construction company. We put every crew through trenching safety training — everyone attended, everyone passed.
Two weeks later a client found one of our workers in a trench that didn't comply. I asked the crew about it. Every one of them believed it was fine.
They weren't cutting corners, and they weren't ignoring the training. Standing in front of a real excavation, two weeks after the course, they simply didn't understand the rules well enough to get it right.
Nobody was hurt. The cost was our standing with that client.
The certificate proved we trained them. Nothing we had could tell me whether they could apply it – until a client did.
02 / What the sign-in sheet costs you
Every morning, on every active jobsite, a supervisor reads the hazard plan, workers nod and sign, and the binder fills with proof of attendance. But you'd never pour a slab and just hope it's strong — you break a test cylinder. Safety training is the one pour nobody tests. That gap costs you three ways — and the same five minutes closes each one.
Your safety record is a sales document.
COR™ gates public work. Contractor platforms grade you for utilities, transit, and major GCs — slip a threshold and the invitations quietly stop.
WSIB rewards proven practice.
A classroom day costs $250–500+ per worker in wages before the course fee — and what it teaches starts decaying the moment the crew walks out. The problem was never that you train too much. It's that nothing tells you what survived.
Understanding prevents. The record defends.
Ontario now carries fines up to $2M per offence and a $500k mandatory minimum for repeat serious offences. Against that exposure, a signature collected in the morning rush is thin evidence of due diligence.
03 / The morning loop
The supervisor fills out the morning job safety plan exactly as they always do. That's it — Dashpot takes it from there.
Dashpot extracts the specific hazards on today's actual work — not generic content.
Each worker receives an SMS link. No app, no account, no password.
Three minutes of video matched to today's hazard, then two minutes validating the worker understands the rules and concepts behind it — with follow-up when the reasoning is off.
A weak answer triggers remediation and a re-check. Every record ends gap found → gap closed.
The safety lead sees real-time comprehension; the transcript files itself as audit-ready evidence — compounding into the dated, per-worker record of verified comprehension you carry into every bid.
04 / Not our claims — the literature's
of newly learned material can fade within days without reinforcement — the classic forgetting curve. A class last spring says little about what's in a worker's head this morning.
[1] Ebbinghaus forgetting curve, replicated by Murre & Dros 2015. PLOS ONE 10(7)
Engaging, participatory training builds roughly three times the safety knowledge of passive lectures and videos — and prevents more injuries.
[2] Burke et al. 2006 — meta-analysis of 95 studies, n≈21,000. AJPH 96(2)
Lower injury costs where workplace safety oversight tightened — in a randomized study published in Science.
[3] Levine, Toffel & Johnson 2012. Science 336(6083)
Lower lost-time injury rates at COR™-certified Ontario firms versus non-certified peers, per IHSA.
[4] IHSA / IWH-UBC COR study. IHSA Magazine V22№2
Claim discipline // The numbers above are the researchers' findings, not our promises. We don't sell bid wins, lower injury rates, or lower premiums — we sell the evidence: a complete, per-worker record of verified comprehension.
05 / See it on your own phone
Enter your number and we'll text you the exact link a worker gets — a short training video, then a guided dialogue that checks you actually understood it. No app, no account. It's the real product, running live.
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06 / Fall 2026 · Greater Toronto & Hamilton Area
High-hazard specialty subs, 15–200 workers, with daily JSP discipline. Founder-led, white-glove onboarding — live in one day. If that's you, let's talk.
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