Sage Safety Compliance Engines LLC

Smart guidance for safer, healthier workplaces.

Practical occupational health, safety, compliance, and ergonomics solutions designed to help organizations protect people, reduce risk, and strengthen operations.

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20+ YearsSafety & EHS Experience

10+ YearsFormer MNOSHA Senior Safety Investigator

MS, CSPAdvanced Education & Professional Certification

Wise counsel. Practical solutions.

Safety systems that work in the real world.

Sage Safety Compliance Engines LLC helps organizations move beyond check-the-box compliance by translating requirements, workplace risks, and ergonomic challenges into clear, practical actions.

What we do

Practical safety expertise when it matters.

From inspection readiness to program development, Sage helps employers identify gaps, reduce risk, and build safety systems that work in the real world.

Featured Service

If OSHA comes knocking on the door, are you ready?

OSHA / MNOSHA Compliance & Inspection Readiness

Sage helps employers look at their workplace through a regulatory lens before an inspection happens. Drawing on more than 10 years of former MNOSHA investigative experience, Justin Stevens, MS, CSP helps identify potential compliance gaps, evaluate programs and practices, prepare leaders for the inspection process, and prioritize practical corrective actions.

Preparation cannot guarantee an inspection outcome, but it can help your organization understand its risks, strengthen its programs, and respond with greater confidence.

Readiness support can include:

Mock OSHA / MNOSHA inspections
Compliance gap assessments
Program and documentation review
Inspection process preparation
Hazard and citation-risk identification
Corrective-action prioritization

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OSHA / MNOSHA Compliance

Evaluate compliance obligations, identify potential gaps, review practices and documentation, and develop practical improvement plans.

Mock Inspections & Readiness

Prepare before the knock at the door with a structured review of workplace conditions, programs, records, and inspection-response readiness.

Safety Program Development

Create, review, and strengthen written programs, procedures, checklists, and implementation tools that fit the way your organization works.

Hazard & Risk Assessments

Identify workplace hazards, evaluate risk, assess existing controls, and prioritize practical opportunities for risk reduction.

Incident Investigation

Support incident investigations and root-cause analysis to move beyond immediate causes and develop meaningful corrective actions.

Safety Training

Deliver practical safety and compliance education designed to help employees and leaders understand requirements and apply them at work.

Industrial Hygiene

Help recognize and evaluate occupational health hazards and determine when additional exposure assessment or control strategies may be needed.

Ergonomics

Evaluate workstations, tasks, tools, and workflows to identify ergonomic risk factors and recommend practical improvements.

Ongoing Safety Consulting

Flexible support for organizations that need experienced safety guidance, program review, problem solving, or targeted project assistance.

The Sage approach

Clear thinking. Better decisions. Stronger systems.

The owl represents wisdom, observation, and sound judgment. That same mindset guides our approach: understand the work, identify what matters most, and recommend solutions that are practical, defensible, and sustainable.

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Observe
Understand the work, people, environment, and existing systems.
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Assess
Identify hazards, gaps, ergonomic stressors, and compliance priorities.
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Improve
Develop practical controls, programs, and recommendations.
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Sustain
Support implementation, learning, documentation, and continuous improvement.

Who we help

Safety support built around your workplace.

Sage works with employers that need experienced, practical occupational health and safety guidance—whether preparing for an inspection, strengthening an existing program, or addressing a specific risk.

Manufacturing

Machine, process, material-handling, training, and compliance challenges in active production environments.

Food & Ingredient Production

Practical EHS support for operations where safety, sanitation, production demands, and regulatory requirements intersect.

Construction & Contractors

Hazard recognition, program review, training, and compliance-readiness support for changing worksites and contractor operations.

Warehousing & Distribution

Support for material handling, powered equipment, ergonomics, walking-working surfaces, and operational safety systems.

Small & Mid-Sized Employers

Experienced safety guidance for organizations that may not need—or have—full-time senior safety expertise on staff.

Other Employers

Targeted consulting for organizations facing a compliance question, incident, ergonomic concern, program gap, or inspection-readiness need.

About Sage Safety Compliance Engines LLC

Former MNOSHA investigator. Experienced safety leader.

Justin Stevens, MS, CSP, Owner of Sage Safety Compliance Engines LLC, brings more than 20 years of occupational health, safety, and EHS experience, including more than 10 years with Minnesota OSHA (MNOSHA) as a Senior Safety Investigator.

Following his regulatory career, Justin has held safety and EHS leadership roles across consulting, manufacturing, and food production. His background includes regulatory compliance, workplace inspections and investigations, risk assessment, incident investigation, safety program development, employee training, industrial hygiene, ergonomics, and EHS management.

This combination of regulatory experience and real-world industry leadership gives Sage clients a practical perspective: understanding what regulators look for while also recognizing what it takes to implement effective, sustainable safety systems inside an organization.

Let’s talk

Have a safety concern—or want to be ready before one becomes urgent?

Start a confidential conversation about inspection readiness, compliance, ergonomics, training, an incident, or another workplace safety need.

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Justin Stevens, MS, CSP Owner sagecomply@gmail.com 507-213-7064

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