VOSB • INDUSTRIAL DESIGN • SAFETY PRODUCTS
Veteran Tool Design
Veteran-owned industrial design for safety products, tools, and workplace solutions. OSHA-aware. Domestically manufactured. Contract-ready.
SCOPE OF WORK
Safety Product Design
OSHA-compliant tools and equipment for heavy industry, from concept through manufacturing-ready spec.
Ergonomic Solutions
Load management, grip design, and ergonomic tooling that reduces injury and improves efficiency on the job site.
Federal and Contract Work
VOSB-certified and SBIR-ready. Experienced working with government procurement and teaming arrangements.
Be Useful
That's advice from Arnold Schwarzenegger, and it's now the primary driver of my design work. Is what I'm designing really useful?

Gravity Grip
Ideal for grabbing hoses from 4" to 8" diameter as well as groups of smaller hoses or cables.
Monster Grip
Re-engineered from a complicated, heavy, expensive device to one that is easy to place, operate, and repair in the field.

David Alan Foster
20+ years in industrial product design, development, and fabrication... primarily in plastics.
Specializing in factory and field safety products of all kinds
OSHA-compliant solutions
Hands-on experience in a wide variety of industries
A NETWORK OF AWESOME PEOPLE, VALIDATED VENDORS, SUPERIOR SUPPLIERS
Resources
We're great with unusual challenges, hard-to-find hardware, and strategies for product research, design, development, and fabrication.
Troy P.
"David brings a level of precision and field-awareness you don't get from a typical design shop. The TuffGrips product solved a real problem we'd been dealing with for years."
Owner, TuffGrips LLC


Luis G.
"Sometimes I'm the only guy out there. TuffGrips tools really save my... back!"
Crew chief of a large construction company
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