Built for the people side of compliance.
Almost every system that touches a workforce's training and certifications was built to do something else first and picked up compliance along the way. That choice is invisible right up until the week you need the records, and then it's the only thing you can see.
Two places people-compliance ends up, and neither was built for it
Generic HR software
A personnel file is built to hold offer letters, tax forms, and a photo, so a certification arrives as an attachment with a filename and an upload date. There's no issuing body, no certification number, no notion that a CDL and a First Aid/CPR/AED card renew on completely different clocks. It's a filing cabinet that happens to be searchable.
Asset and equipment systems
Maintenance platforms are built around the machine: service intervals, inspection logs, a next-due date. The person qualified to operate that machine this month shows up, if at all, as a name typed into a text field on the asset record. Their forklift certification, their aerial-lift operator card, their CDL has no home of its own: no expiration, no renewal path, no history.
CrewSafety isn't a module bolted onto either one.
The workforce itself is what CrewSafety is actually organized around: training, certifications, incident history, medical records, drug-screening results, custom admin documents, and whatever else a given crew's compliance program actually runs on.
Decisions here come from people who've done the work.
CrewSafety was founded by Cory Stemp, who built it around his own career in construction, heavy lift, and safety. He leans on a small group of close industry contacts, combined for decades in safety, compliance, operations, and management, several of whom stay close to the same crane and rigging operation CrewSafety grew out of, so what changes here comes from what a real operation actually runs into, as it happens, not a feature request written in the abstract.
The yard behind the records
A working operation runs on the software CrewSafety was built from.
A heavy crane and rigging company runs its actual compliance program right now on the software CrewSafety grew out of: crews across several U.S. locations and abroad, every certification and medical file behind them, incident reports, and the job packets that go out before work starts. When a credential there comes up for renewal, that system is what sends the notice. It's their own version, built for that operation specifically. CrewSafety is what came from generalizing it for everyone else.
Below, in our founder's own words, is why.
The gap we couldn't ignore.
CrewSafety started with a practical problem: our operation needed a better way to track people, training, paperwork, and expiration dates. The tools we were using worked well for equipment and inspections, but the way we had adapted them for employee compliance still left gaps. We built around the workflows our safety team needed each day.
Between 2008 and 2013, while working at an international heavy lift and transport company, I built a spreadsheet-based safety tracker. It held employee information and photos, with links to training certificates. The company kept using it after I left, but it had limits, including no expiration notifications.
I left to run my own business and later became COO of a fitness company. When I returned to safety in January 2026, I was also studying software engineering full time. With permission to rebuild the original tool, I created a cloud application specifically for that operation. It has been used daily since January 2026 across all its locations, tracking about 200 employees worldwide.
Conversations with other companies using their own tools, spreadsheets, and scattered folders led to CrewSafety. We adapted the foundation into a separate multi-tenant product for construction and trade companies. The original operation uses its own tailored internal application. Useful features are typically used, tested, and refined there before being adapted for CrewSafety. CrewSafety is live and open to companies starting their first trial.
Don't take our word for it.
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