Real Work. Real Risk. Real Solutions.
Tactical Compliance for the Real World
Proudly Veteran and Woman Owned
The Nest
Where safety strategies are born and built.
Explore the three ways Black Banner Safety helps teams modernize safety: digital platforms that evolve with your work, hands-on program support, and ready-to-deploy tools you can put to work today.
Essentials Arsenal
For the do-it-yourself pros and early-stage teams needing a jumping point
Start strong without starting from scratch.
Real tools for real work.
Templates and checklists that grow with your program.
Mission Ops
For teams seeking custom solutions and expert guidance
Bring us the messy parts.
We build the backbone. You stay in control.
From one-time projects to ongoing fractional leadership, we flex to your needs.
The Flightline
Take off into modern digital safety and risk management
Leave outdated workflows behind.
Future-proof your compliance.
Your team gets a powerful, agile platform fit to your operations without the enterprise bloat.
Launch a Readiness Review
A no-pressure planning session to assess your site’s compliance posture and explore whether Black Banner is a good fit for your team.
The Banner
Heather Knowles, CSP, MS
Founder | Principal Consultant, Black Banner Safety
Heather Knowles founded Black Banner Safety with a mission: to deliver grounded, tactical solutions for the real world.
With over two decades of experience in the U.S. Navy, aerospace, manufacturing, and public safety, Heather has led safety programs in aircraft maintenance, solid rocket propellant production, circuit board fabrication, power and hand tool manufacturing, and law enforcement and corrections. She has brought safety leadership and risk management expertise in each of these high-risk environments, always under pressure and always with lives on the line.
She doesn’t just study risk. She has lived it.
Her approach is practical, adaptive, and built for real operations. Heather believes safety is never one-size-fits-all, and the best solutions emerge in the grey space between rigid compliance and real-world performance.
She’s not here to play gotcha or push generic programs. She’s here to solve problems, reduce risk, and empower teams to work safer, smarter, and more confidently.
Heather holds the CSP credential, dual OSHA Specialist designations in General Industry and Construction, and a Master’s in Occupational Safety & Health, combining technical expertise, strategic insight, and lived experience in every solution.
Black Banner Safety was built for the doers - the ones who get it done. Heather’s role is to make sure they get it done safely, sustainably, and without losing their edge.
Get Your Safety Ducks in a Row. For Real.
Most teams don’t need another spreadsheet. They need one system that pulls safety, risk, and compliance into the same cockpit and actually fits how the work gets done.
That’s what the Flightline, built on Reliant RM, is for. As a licensed Reliant RM distributor, Black Banner designs, configures, and administers your environment so your people can focus on operations instead of acting as accidental system admins.
What you gain with a Flightline build:
One source of truth – Audits, incidents, inspections, training, and corrective actions in one system with clear ownership.
Real-time visibility – Dashboards tuned to your operations so leaders, supervisors, and frontline staff see what matters to them.
Audit-ready records – Consistent, complete history when regulators, insurers, or executives start asking hard questions.
Support that sticks – Implement through The Terminal, then either run Reliant RM internally with Black Banner maintaining licensing, or move into Skywatch or Control Tower for ongoing system stewardship.
Ready to line up your ducks?
Explore the Flightline or visit the Nest to see what other services Black Banner Safety offers.
