Sherpa Humaneering Group, LLC is an industrial safety authority specializing in cognitive verification for high-hazard operations. The company was founded by Roy Farmer to close a gap that 35 years of field experience made impossible to ignore: traditional safety systems verify that paperwork exists but cannot verify that workers are thinking about task-specific hazards at the point of work.
The Sherpa Cognitive Verification Method was not designed in a conference room. It was built in gravel yards, on drilling rigs, in manufacturing plants, and on construction sites where the consequences of getting it wrong are measured in ambulances, not audit findings.
The Founder
Roy Farmer is a Board Certified Occupational Health and Safety Technologist with more than 35 years of experience across 18 countries. He has trained over 10,000 individuals, developed 154 trainers, and certified 16 subject matter experts. He holds TapRoot Level 5 SME certification, OSHA Outreach Trainer authorization, and API Qualified Auditor certification. He is a dual-service U.S. military veteran.
The Origin
Three formative events forced a confrontation with the limits of compliance-based safety: an early 1990s electrocution, a 1996 crash that killed Roy's father and brother, and a 2011 man-lift fall where all paperwork was complete but cognitive verification never occurred. These events are the foundation of the method.
Credentials and Recognition
Roy led the development of the safety programs that received the NOIA Safety in Seas Award (2023) for Risk Management and the COS Safety Leadership Award (2016). He has served on the TapRoot Advisory Board and the DROPS North American Steering Committee.