About Russel Carr and Why He Founded the Company
Hiring A Safety Manager Is Hard!
What follows is the first part of a two part blog post: The first one will discuss the difficulties involved in recruiting and hiring a qualified safety manager, and the follow up post will discuss the fact that even if your company succeeds in making a hire, it won’t necessarily guarantee that your company will become nor maintain OSHA compliance. Both posts are based on my own internal company experiences as well as my experiences in the environmental, health [...]
TCEQ Environmental Compliance Fines & Penalties
Many small Texas manufacturers struggle with understanding and managing their EPA and TCEQ environmental compliance obligations. This puts them at risk for major regulatory fines and penalties, not to mention putting their local communities at risk for environmental damage. Some common environmental compliance requirements for Texas manufacturers include Storm Water permitting, Air permitting and authorizations, Hazardous Waste Management and hazardous materials reporting. Many small Texas manufacturers are totally unaware of these requirements, let alone how to manage them. Here's [...]
Employee Complaints Trigger OSHA Inspections
Employee Triggered OSHA Inspections Here is a very critical stat that every business owner in a high hazard industry, such as manufacturing, construction, or industrial services, needs to know: Between 2009 and 2013, an average of 20% of all inspections were triggered by an employee complaint. The percentage of employee triggered inspections rose to 24% last year and that’s because OSHA takes these complaints very seriously and is responding by doing more and more follow up inspections. Keep in mind that [...]
OSHA Safety Training in Austin, San Antonio, Houston & Dallas Texas
Berg Compliance Solutions is your OSHA safety training expert in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, throughout Texas and beyond. An educated workforce positively affects your company’s safety culture, helps prevent serious injuries and fatalities, helps reduce your workers compensation costs and accident rates as well as avoid OSHA fines penalties for noncompliance in Texas. Berg Compliance Solutions develops and delivers safety training for specific OSHA standards and customizes training programs to meet the specific needs of your company. Whether you [...]
Common Small Business OSHA Compliance Mistakes
If you own, or work for a small manufacturing, construction, energy or industrial services business, this article definitely applies to you. I used to own and manage 2 small energy service companies. One provided operations & maintenance services to utility scale wind farms throughout the US, and the other provided vacuum tanker and frack tank services to the oil & gas exploration industry in south Texas. My employees were exposed to significant health & safety hazards on a daily basis. [...]
