Protecting people is part of protecting pets.
OSHA-informed safety and real-world decision-making to help pet-care teams work with more clarity, stronger boundaries, and
Pet care work is real work. Real work needs safety systems
Your team works alone in real homes, real neighborhoods, real weather, and real animal-behavior situations. Field Notes helps pet-care leaders build practical, OSHA-informed safety systems before preventable incidents become business-ending events.
This is not about making pet care scary. It is about giving good people the structure, authority, and safeguards they need to work safely.
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Created by Beth Pasek — pet-care operator, cat behavior specialist, Fear Free Elite professional, and occupational safety professional with EHS and industrial safety experience
Safety Leadership Pathway
Advisory & Leadership Support
Support for pet care businesses ready to hold safety as a leadership responsibility — not just a set of rules.
Custom Safety Program Design (Private Advisory)
$300
This 3-session private advisory is for owners and managers who are ready to design a safety program that fits their actual business — not a generic template.
We focus on aligning safety expectations, leadership accountability, training structure, and documentation with your team size, service model, and risk profile.
This is not a coaching engagement or a done-for-you solution. It is a guided design process that prepares you to lead, enforce, and stand behind your safety program with confidence.
Beyond the Bite Leadership Program (4-Weeks)
$500
A practical safety leadership program for pet-care businesses that want to move beyond reactive habits, informal judgment, and “be careful” culture.
Beyond the Bite helps owners and managers identify foreseeable hazards, strengthen field decision-making, clarify accountability, and build safety systems that work in real pet-care conditions — homes, routes, weather, animals, clients, and teams.
The program is built on continuous-improvement principles and informed by modern occupational safety mgmt
Pet Sitter Safety System
Annual Membership $250
The work supports owners and managers in bringing safety to the forefront of daily operations — not as a checklist or software tool, but as an ongoing leadership responsibility.
Materials are provided to support implementation and consistency in the field, while decision-making, supervision, and accountability remain firmly with leadership.
Safety leadership isn’t built all at once. These pathways exist so businesses can begin — or deepen — the work at the pace responsibility requires.
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About Field Notes Pet Sitter Safety Consulting
My Mission
My role aligns with the INSHPO Global OHS Capability Framework as an OHS Professional Level 2, moving into Level 3. I design safety strategy, integrate hazard control into business operations, and provide leadership development and culture change mechanisms for small service-based enterprises — specifically in the pet-care sector where this capability has not yet formally existed.
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