diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d98549e..a975186 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@
 
 Commonly, graceful restarts are performed by the active process (*dark blue*) closing its listeners and passing these matching listening socket files (*green*) over to a newly started process. This restart causes any **foreground** process monitoring to incorrectly detect a program crash. `overseer` attempts to solve this by using a small process to perform this socket file exchange and proxying signals and exit code from the active process.
 
-:warning: *`overseer` is being used heavily at my workplace and no major issues have yet to be found. Nevertheless, consider it beta software and please report any [issues](https://github.com/jpillora/overseer/issues) you encounter.*
-
 ### Features
 
 * Simple
diff --git a/overseer.go b/overseer.go
index 4a6feb3..f161ebb 100644
--- a/overseer.go
+++ b/overseer.go
@@ -107,29 +107,50 @@ func Run(c Config) {
 	os.Exit(0)
 }
 
+//sanityCheck returns true if a check was performed
+func sanityCheck() bool {
+	//sanity check
+	if token := os.Getenv(envBinCheck); token != "" {
+		fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, token)
+		return true
+	}
+	//legacy sanity check using old env var
+	if token := os.Getenv(envBinCheckLegacy); token != "" {
+		fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, token)
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+//SanityCheck manually runs the check to ensure this binary
+//is compatible with overseer. This tries to ensure that a restart
+//is never performed against a bad binary, as it would require
+//manual intervention to rectify. This is automatically done
+//on overseer.Run() though it can be manually run prior whenever
+//necessary.
+func SanityCheck() {
+	if sanityCheck() {
+		os.Exit(0)
+	}
+}
+
+//abstraction over master/slave
 var currentProcess interface {
 	triggerRestart()
 	run() error
 }
 
 func runErr(c *Config) error {
-	if err := validate(c); err != nil {
-		return err
-	}
-	//sanity check
-	if token := os.Getenv(envBinCheck); token != "" {
-		fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, token)
-		return nil
-	}
-	//legacy sanity check using old env var
-	if token := os.Getenv(envBinCheckLegacy); token != "" {
-		fmt.Fprint(os.Stdout, token)
-		return nil
-	}
 	//os not supported
 	if !supported {
 		return fmt.Errorf("os (%s) not supported", runtime.GOOS)
 	}
+	if err := validate(c); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if sanityCheck() {
+		return nil
+	}
 	//run either in master or slave mode
 	if os.Getenv(envIsSlave) == "1" {
 		currentProcess = &slave{Config: c}