Auto Dealer Compliance Pack
Compliance pack for auto dealerships. Covers sales/admin office safety, service department mechanical work, vehicle lift safety, HazCom for service chemicals, and customer interaction protocols.
When this template is required
Auto dealers face mixed exposures: sales/admin offices (low-risk), service departments with mechanical work, body shop operations (often outsourced), and detail/wash operations. Service writers and porters move between contexts. Pack covers the dealership's diverse safety profile.
Why this template
Multi-context coverage
Dealerships have sales (low-risk), service (medium-risk), body shop (high-risk if in-house), detail (chemical exposure), and customer-facing operations. Pack covers all contexts.
Vehicle lift safety
Vehicle lift accidents (vehicle falls during service) cause severe injuries. Lift safety procedure covers inspection, capacity, positioning, secondary supports.
Refrigerant handling (EPA Section 609)
Vehicle A/C work requires EPA Section 609 certification. Pack documents technician certification tracking and refrigerant handling compliance.
Customer-facing context
Customer waiting areas, test drives, and lot operations have customer-interaction safety considerations beyond pure employee safety.
What you receive
- Dealership Safety Program
- Service Department HazCom (oils, coolants, refrigerants, cleaners)
- Vehicle Lift Safety (LOTO + inspection)
- Service Bay Slip/Trip/Fall Prevention
- Tire Inflation Safety (multi-piece rims, sidewall blowout)
- Refrigerant handling (R-134a, R-1234yf — EPA Section 609)
- Customer waiting area safety
- EAP (dealership scenarios)
- Annual training matrix
How you get it
This document is written and reviewed against the standard it cites, and it is ready now. The download link is emailed as soon as your payment clears.
Revisions included — if something about your operation changes what the document should say, reply to the delivery email and we will amend it.
Who buys this
- Franchise auto dealerships (new and used)
- Independent used car dealers
- Truck dealerships
- Motorcycle dealerships
- RV dealerships
- Marine dealers
- Equipment dealerships
Frequently asked
What's EPA Section 609 certification?
Section 609 of the Clean Air Act requires technicians servicing vehicle A/C systems to be certified through an EPA-approved program. Technician certification is held by the individual and does not expire. Separately, 40 CFR 82.42(a)(1) requires the establishment itself to certify to its EPA regional office that it has acquired and properly uses approved equipment, listing each machine's make, model, date of manufacture and serial number, and to send a new certification when the equipment or the address changes. The pack covers both, with the technician register, the equipment register and the establishment certification record.
What about vehicle lift inspection?
ANSI/ALI ALOIM (Automotive Lift Operation, Inspection, and Maintenance) is the industry standard. Annual inspection by qualified person; daily user pre-shift inspection; manufacturer-specific maintenance. Lift Safety procedure documents the framework.
Does this cover the body shop?
At a high level. Dealerships with substantial in-house body shop operations should layer the Auto Body & Auto Repair Compliance Pack ($495) on top of this Auto Dealer pack for body-shop-specific provisions (isocyanate, paint booth, EPA NESHAP).
What about tire safety?
29 CFR 1910.177 covers multi-piece and single piece rim wheels on large vehicles — trucks, tractors, trailers, buses and off-road machines — and expressly excludes rim wheels on automobiles and on pickups and vans using automobile or LT tires. The pack requires a written applicability determination and, where the standard does not apply, states that the passenger and LT tire inflation duty rests on OSH Act section 5(a)(1) and the equipment manufacturer's instructions. Both paths are covered: the full standard where it reaches, and the same practices adopted as a company rule where it does not.