Last Updated: 2026
This policy defines how RSE initiates, evaluates, and governs professional engagements.
RSE does not provide informal advice, open consultations, or general inquiries.
All engagements begin through structured intake.
Rauch Safety & Engineering operates under a layered engagement model in which orientation, technical reference, diagnostic evaluation, execution governance, and exception-based intervention are distinct and non-sequential.
Participation in any layer does not imply eligibility for, entitlement to, or progression into another layer unless expressly agreed in writing under a separate engagement.
No diagnostic activity, assessment completion, or preliminary interaction creates execution authority, governance responsibility, or obligation to proceed beyond the defined scope.
RSE engagements begin via one of the following:
Submission does not create a client relationship.
Completion of the Access Readiness Assessment does not obligate RSE to offer, propose, or enter into an engagement, and does not constitute an application for engineering services.
Execution-stage governance frameworks, including the Infrastructure Access Observation Program (IAOP), are not engagement pathways and are not initiated through public request.
IAOP is applied only after confirmation of infrastructure-scale risk and only under separate written agreement defining authority, scope, and boundaries.
Certain defined services — currently the Service Agreement & Records Review — are offered at published, fixed pricing under a standard-form engagement letter.
Requests for these services are received through the Engage RSE Engagement Request Form and are accepted following a conflict check; the selective-engagement provisions of Section 3 do not apply to them.
Acceptance remains subject to the conflict check, to confirmation of the required document set, and to formation of the engagement under Section 5. Published pricing and standard-form terms do not create an engagement prior to execution of the engagement letter and payment as that letter provides.
RSE reserves the right to:
RSE is not obligated to respond to non-aligned inquiries.
RSE does not provide:
All services require formal engagement.
Only written agreements define RSE’s scope and responsibility.
No verbal statements or website content create obligations.
RSE does not publish direct email addresses for service inquiries.
All engagement requests must be submitted through official forms to ensure:
This policy may be updated.
The published version governs.