Practice›About

A decade of risk clarity, built where the trades work.

Peril Mavens exists at the intersection of construction operations and insurance risk. We're practitioners first, safety professionals and risk consultants who have run site safety on $800M federal programs and advised carriers on billion-dollar accounts.

Safety professionals reviewing site data

Why both sides matter

Founded on a simple observation.

Contractors and carriers were speaking different languages about the same risks. Field observations weren't reaching underwriters in usable form. Loss trends weren't reaching superintendents in time to change outcomes.

Our practice bridges that gap because we've held both jobs, running safety across mission-critical Department of Defense projects with 300+ workforce counts, and consulting on construction and energy accounts for a major national carrier across GL, WC, and auto liability lines.

Three throughlines

What our practice is built on.

Field credibility

EM385-1-1 audits at ≥90% compliance on active federal projects. We've done the work our clients are trying to protect.

Carrier fluency

Technical risk assessments underwriters price against. Loss-triangulation, control benchmarking, and submission narrative.

Loss experience

Root cause analysis leadership on large-loss and fatality claims. We can hold the room in the hardest conversation.

Credentials

Certified by the standards-setters.

Credentials from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), the International Risk Management Institute (IRMI), and The Institutes, with active affiliations in ASSP and the National Safety Council.

CSP

Certified Safety Professional

Board of Certified Safety Professionals

CRIS

Construction Risk & Insurance Specialist

International Risk Management Institute

ARM

Associate in Risk Management

The Institutes

OSHA 30

Construction Industry Outreach

Authorized trainer

OSHA 10

General Industry Outreach

Authorized trainer

EM385

USACE Safety & Health (40-hr)

Federal defense compliance

ASSP

American Society of Safety Professionals

Active member

NSC

National Safety Council

Active member

Representative exposure

Experience measured in billions.

Direct safety and risk roles across a decade of North America's most demanding construction programs.

$6.4B

Heavy civil

Cable-stayed bridge · 853m span

Safety leadership over water and heavy lift phases on a landmark bridge program.

Marine · elevated

$2.7B

Data center

Hyperscale campus

100–1,200 daily trades. Client-representative safety oversight through commissioning.

Commissioning

$800M

Federal defense

NAVFAC / USACE portfolio

EM385-1-1 compliance and APP/AHA submittal readiness, flight lines, fire stations, utilities.

Compliance

$1.4B

Healthcare

Hospital tower · 26 stories · 400 beds

ICRA/ILSM, tower crane adjacency, and phased occupancy on an active medical campus.

Interim life safety

220k SF

Diplomatic · new build

Foreign chancery, Washington DC

Owner-required weekly project inspections on a new embassy campus, findings tied to project team payment milestones and closely tracked by the delivery team.

Owner inspections

Multi-site

Energy · utility

Investor-owned utility new build, Florida

Site safety inspections across multiple new-build power projects for a Florida investor-owned utility, subcontractor scope.

Field inspections

NAVFAC

Federal defense · refurb

NAVFAC Washington intel campus

Site Safety and Health Officer and Quality Control services on federal refurbishment scopes, delivered to the NAVFAC Washington performance work statement with EM 385-1-1 and OSHA 30 compliance.

SSHO · QC

At every scale

Same standard, any size of work.

The ledger above shows the largest programs, but the practice is not sized to the largest jobs. Single-facility renovations, one-week inspection engagements, subcontractor onboarding for a two-crew shop, and one-off risk assessments get the same methodology, the same documentation, and the same signature at the bottom of the report.

Single-facility refurb

One building, one scope, one team. Auditorium seating replacements, restroom refurbishments, kitchen ceiling tile scopes, the small federal task orders where an inspector still has to certify to the same standard as the billion-dollar program next door.

Owner-representative visits

Weekly or biweekly project inspections where the owner needs an independent set of eyes, findings tied to pay applications or a project milestone. Short reports, plain language, defensible photos.

Subcontractor site inspections

Multi-site field inspections for specialty subcontractors working under a larger prime. Punch-list format, closeout documentation, and coaching for the site foreman when the finding is a training gap and not a violation.

One-off risk assessments

A carrier submission, a lender request, a pre-mobilization walk-through, a written strategy for a family-owned trade contractor considering its first EMR-driving loss. The engagement ends when the deliverable lands. No retainer required.

The Mavens Bridge

A paid apprenticeship for the students carrying this work forward.

The Mavens Bridge is our sponsored, paid undergraduate program with construction management, safety, risk, and engineering programs at partner universities. It is voluntary for the student, tuition-neutral for the university, and hosted by a rotating set of contractors, carriers, and owners who agree to bring a student into real work, not fetch-and-file work. It exists because the path into this industry is still too narrow, and the practitioners who could widen it are the people already in it.

Why it matters

01 · The student

A career trajectory, not an internship.

The student gets paid, and gets access to more than one company inside a single term. A Bridge fellow rotates across a general contractor, a specialty trade, and a carrier or broker desk, so the resume that leaves the program shows an operations lens, a trade lens, and a risk lens on the same industry. Fellows leave with named references from practitioners across three seats of the table, not one.

If you run a university program, a contractor, a carrier, or a specialty trade and the Bridge sounds like something you would host or send a student into, tell us. We build cohorts one relationship at a time. Start the conversation

Footprint

Fifteen states and DC, where the work has taken us.

Federal defense installations, hyperscale data centers, healthcare towers, energy infrastructure, and heavy civil, from the mid-Atlantic through the Gulf, the desert Southwest, and the Pacific coast. Nationwide, in practice as well as in principle.

15states + DC

Alabama
Arizona
California
Florida
Georgia
Indiana
Maryland
Michigan
Mississippi
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Washington, DC

Our practice is nationwide. If your work sits outside the shaded states, the same methodology and deliverables travel with us.

Coverage

Insured to the standard our clients require.

We maintain comprehensive general liability, workers compensation, and professional liability coverage, meeting the insurance and bonding requirements that federal, state, and commercial projects demand.

CGL

Commercial General Liability

Workers Compensation

E&O

Professional Liability

AUTO

Commercial Auto Liability

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