Builder
Training for subcontractor supervisors and their crews, with the Builder app as your companion tool.
Foremen and lead hands get promoted because they are excellent at the work. Few are ever taught how to teach it. The Uptown Safety course teaches supervisors the TWI Job Instruction method, so every new person on the crew learns each task the same way. Builder is the companion tool: it keeps your skills breakdowns and tracks who has been trained on each skill.
Teach your supervisors the skill of instruction
The program has three parts: the TWI Job Instruction course for supervisors, the Builder companion app, and an optional monthly on-site coaching day.
It is built for subcontractor crews and jobsite tasks, so what supervisors learn in the course is what they use with their crews the next morning. Builder holds the skills breakdowns and the training records. It runs on any phone, and there is nothing to install.
Who it’s for
- Subcontractor foremen, lead hands and superintendents who bring new people up to speed on their crews
- Specialty trade owners and operations managers who want one standard way to teach each task to every crew
- Companies that want their veterans’ know-how written down and passed on
Train. Apply. Sustain.
Three steps that take a supervisor from learning the method to teaching with it every day.
Train
The supervisor course teaches the TWI Job Instruction method, hands-on, using construction tasks.
Apply
Each supervisor breaks down a real task from their own trade and leaves with a finished breakdown and a plan to teach the next one.
Sustain
Supervisors keep building and sharing skills breakdowns in Builder, and track who has been shown, tried out and put on their own for each skill.
Teach the job right. Every time.
A hands-on course built on TWI Job Instruction and taught for construction. Four steps that turn a skilled worker into a good teacher.
Builder keeps a written breakdown for each task: the important steps, the key points and the reason behind each one. Supervisors teach from it, then tick off each worker as they are shown the job, tried it out and put on their own. The record stays with the worker.
The four steps of Job Instruction
The same four steps, in the same order, for any task on the job. Builder keeps the breakdown in front of the supervisor and the record behind it.
Prepare
Get the worker ready.
Put them at ease. Say what the job is and find out what they already know. Have the breakdown, tools and materials ready.
Present
Show and tell, one step at a time.
Go through each important step. Say the key points and the reason behind each one. Give them no more than they can take in.
Try out
Let them do it.
Have the worker do the job, then explain the key points back to you. Fix mistakes on the spot. Keep going until you know they understand.
Follow up
Put them on their own.
Tell them who to go to with questions. Check on them often, then less and less as they get good. Mark the day they are on their own.
Builder screens shown with sample company data.
What supervisors practice in the course
The Job Breakdown Sheet
Important steps, with key points tagged SAFETY QUALITY KNACK and the reason behind each key point.
Practice and teach-back
Supervisors practice in pairs, then teach a task back and get feedback.
A real task from their own work
Each supervisor brings one real task and leaves with a finished breakdown for it.
Builder: the app that goes with the course
Live at app.uptownsafety.com. Four parts that share one set of people, jobs and skills, all there to support the training.
TWI job breakdowns
- myJIB: each supervisor’s own breakdowns, searchable with the company’s.
- New JIB: name a task for an AI-drafted first pass, or talk the job through out loud. The supervisor reviews, edits or rejects every step.
- Share as a PDF, printout, link or QR code.
- TWI Card: the Job Instruction pocket card, always on hand.
Training records
- A roster of the people you train, with trade, phone, job and supervisor.
- Skills from your own list. Each breakdown can carry one.
- Training records: Shown, Tried out, Put on their own, with the date and who taught it. When a JIB has a skill attached, it is added to the worker’s record.
- A Refresher due flag appears when a company JIB is changed.
- Certs the worker already holds, with expiry dates and colour-coded status, kept next to their training record.
Job tree
- Company, job, supervisor, people, in the job button at the top of every screen.
- Supervisors see their own people and can add or remove them.
- Admins see every supervisor on a job, including ones with nobody yet, and can move a whole group.
- A person has one supervisor at a time. Removing someone sends them back to the pool; nothing is deleted.
Training view
- See who has been trained on which skill, with date and job filters.
- Expiring certs at a glance.
- Export the tab you are on as CSV or PDF.
- The Archive keeps finished training sessions by month.
Roles that fit your team
Admins run the company. Supervisors run their own work and people. Viewers can look but not change.
English and Spanish
Each person picks a language. Menus, hints, messages, PDFs and exports follow it.
Runs on any phone
Nothing to install. Open app.uptownsafety.com on a phone, tablet or computer. Tabs across the top on a computer, a thumb bar on a phone.
Private to your company
People in one company never see another company’s sheets, files, workers or records.
Workers do not need accounts
Workers are roster records, so the people you train do not need a login.
Nothing is deleted when people move
Removing someone from a supervisor’s list sends them back to the pool. They stay on the roster.
The app also has inspection checklists, toolbox talks and a safety plan library. They are extras for your own use and are not the focus of the training program.
Monthly on-site coaching day
An optional coaching day on your jobsite each month, to help supervisors put Job Instruction to work on real tasks with their crews.
Pricing
From first call to first trained crew
Request a demo
Tell us about your crews and the skills you want taught. We will show you the course and Builder with sample data.
We set up your company
Your company gets its own private space in Builder, and your admin is invited by email.
Your supervisors start
Supervisors take the course, build skills breakdowns, teach their crews and record who is trained.
James Alexander, CSP, CHST
James teaches TWI Job Instruction to construction supervisors. The course and the Builder companion app are built for subcontractor crews and jobsite tasks, by a construction safety professional with 25 years in the construction industry.
Good to know
- Builder is the companion tool for the training program. It helps a supervisor follow the four steps of Job Instruction and keep training records.
- It does not replace a supervisor’s judgment, manufacturer instructions or your company’s own procedures.
- Job Instruction is one of the TWI programs. It builds a supervisor’s skill in instructing; TWI Job Methods and Job Relations cover improving methods and leading.
- The AI draft of a job breakdown is a first pass. The supervisor reviews, edits or rejects every step.
Before you ask
Who is this for?
Subcontractor supervisors, such as foremen and lead hands, and the crews they train.
Is Builder a full safety management system?
No. Builder is the companion tool for the TWI training program: skills breakdowns, the people you train and who has been trained on each skill.
Do my workers need a login?
No. Workers are records on your roster. Supervisors and admins sign in.
Is there something to install?
No. Builder runs on any phone, tablet or computer at app.uptownsafety.com.
Can my people use it in Spanish?
Yes. Each person chooses English or Spanish in My account. Text your people typed stays as it was written.
Who sees our information?
Only people in your company. Each company has its own private space in Builder.
Hands-on support for contractors
Uptown Safety also works side by side with superintendents, project managers and their teams in Charlotte and the Carolinas.
Bring TWI Job Instruction to your crews.
Ask for a demo of the course and the Builder companion app, or book the course for your team.