Safety Pro to Business Owner Part 3: Build Your Safety Consulting Network in 2026

About this episode

Sheldon Primus discusses practical networking strategies for safety professionals to build their consulting opportunities.

You’ve got the business name. You’ve got the legal setup. You’ve started thinking through your niche. Now comes the part many new consultants miss: How do people actually find you? In this episode of The Safety Consultant Show with Sheldon Primus, Sheldon continues the 2026 business startup series by walking safety professionals through practical networking strategies that can help them start building real consulting opportunities. This is not theory. This is the “go make something happen” part of the business. If you are an EHS professional, safety manager, trainer, OSHA compliance specialist, or future safety consultant, this episode gives you practical places to start building your network before you leave your job, while you are still testing your niche, or while you are trying to land your next client. What This Episode Covers In Part 1 of the series, Sheldon covered getting your business legal and structured. In Part 2, he talked about finding a profitable niche. In Part 3, he focuses on where to network and find consulting opportunities, including: Using Upwork to find project-based consulting work Signing up with Yellowbird as a safety professional Building relationships…

People in this episode

Host: Sheldon Primus

Topics covered

• safety consulting
• networking strategies
• business startup
• consulting opportunities
• EHS professionals
• building credibility

Keywords

• safety consulting
• networking
• EHS professionals
• consulting opportunities
• business startup
• Upwork
• Yellowbird
• LinkedIn
• Facebook groups

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Upwork, Yellowbird, LinkedIn, Facebook, local safety council, Safety Consultant Show

Places: 2026

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