Checkout Our Youtube Channel Re-Boot: We help small manufacturing & industrial companies understand OSHA & EPA compliance and risk

Do you own or work for a small manufacturing or industrial facility who’s struggling to understand and manage the long list of complex and ever changing environmental, health and safety regulations that impact your business?

If so, you’re not alone and you’ve come to the right place, our channel is here to help!

Hello, my name is Russell Carr, founder of Berg Compliance Solutions and EHS academy, and in 2022 I decided to reboot our channel to focus entirely on helping small manufacturing and industrial businesses to understand the OSHA, EPA and state environmental regulations that impact them. These are industries that I have served for over 23 years and counting.

These 2 sectors have the greatest burden when it comes to these regulations, yet very often lack the expertise, time and resources needed to keep up.

To make matters worse, most small companies also lack the budget and need to hire a full time, qualified safety manger or an expensive consultant to build EHS programs.

These challenges often result in a perpetual state of non-compliance, leaving the business, their employees, local community and the environment at massive risk. These include serious injuries, spills, failed inspections, huge fines, reputation damage, lost business opportunities and serious legal problems if things go wrong.

This is why I created this channel, to help these small at risk businesses make sense of these EHS regulations and most importantly how to manage them.

We will regularly upload free, educational content designed to explain these regulations in simple, easy to understand language. That’s right, you don’t need to be a safety expert to benefit from our channel.

We’ll cover a wide range of topics including:
OSHA Health & Safety Compliance:
– How to build an OSHA health and safety program
– How to build a safety training program
– Common OSHA compliance standards including Hazard Communication, Lockout/Tagout, PPE, Confined Spaces, Emergency Action Plan, Powered Industrial Trucks, Fall Protection, Hearing Conservation, Respiratory Protection, and more
– How to manage and pass OSHA inspections
– The keys to managing safety
– OSHA 300 logs
and more

Environmental & Hazardous Materials Compliance:
– Hazardous waste disposal and management
– Stormwater Permits, Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPP)
– Air emissions and air permits
– SPCC plans
– Hazardous Materials Reporting: Tier II, TRI and EPCRA

So if you’re committed to improving your company’s safety condition, you’ve come to the right place!

I invite you to subscribe and click the notifications bell so you’ll be made aware every time we upload new content.

Welcome and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

By Russell Carr|2022-07-18T16:59:48-05:00July 18th, 2022|Hazardous Waste Management, OSHA Health & Safety, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

About the Author: Russell Carr

How A Sales Guy Transformed Into An Environmental, Health & Safety Expert & Advocate For Small Businesses I've spent my entire 30+ year career working within the manufacturing and “industrial services” sectors. The first 15 years of my career focused on sales of hazardous materials related products and services to the manufacturing sector, then for the last 16+ years transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding 3 small industrial services related contracting businesses. As you’ll see below, running these companies eventually lead me to found yet a 4th business, but more on that in a minute…. Here’s a brief description of the first 3 companies: Berg Environmental Services, Inc.: hazardous waste disposal & transportation services, founded in August of 2003 3rd party wind energy operations & maintenance services provider to utility scale wind farms throughout the US, founded in September 2007 3rd party oil & gas exploration & production services provider, founded in August of 2011 Each of these companies operated in extremely dangerous working conditions and exposed my employees to a wide range of serious health & safety hazards on a daily basis. To complicate matters, 2 of the companies also exposed the environment to significant potential harm. In other words, I learned very early the critical importance of managing environmental, health and safety issues so as to ensure the safety of our employees and the environment, as well as minimizing related risks. But I also learned how incredibly difficult and challenging this endeavor can be due to the wide range of complicated and continually changing environmental, health and safety rules and regulations that impacted the companies. To summarize the challenges: First I had to determine which regulations applied to each company, then I had to build compliance programs to meet those regulations, and finally I had to ensure that the programs were being managed and followed by our staff on a daily basis. All while trying to run and grow 3 profitable businesses…. It was overwhelming and I always struggled to keep up. To make matters worse, throughout this time I also witnessed the devastating price that companies, management and ownership can pay for failing to manage EHS compliance. This included seeing one of my hazardous waste management clients get sent to jail over environmental issues, another client’s management team threatened with jail time, a direct competitor get fined $378,000 by OSHA fine after an employee was nearly killed, and many others face major fines and penalties. Full disclosure, one of my companies got fined by OSHA at one point, & another was cited by TCEQ, so I know how it feels. In summary, I learned first hand how incredibly difficult it is for small companies to manage EHS compliance due to a common lack of the critical expertise, time and resources that are needed to keep up, and how this situation then ends up exposing them to these potentially catastrophic risks that can literally destroy lives and businesses. This later inspired me to found my 4th company, Berg Compliance Solutions in 2012, which is dedicated to helping other small businesses, and business owners, to manage EHS compliance and risk. Education BA, Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, December, 1990. Summary of Professional Experience & Qualifications: 30+ years serving the manufacturing & industrial services sectors 30+ years of sales and marketing experience 16+ years as small business owner & entrepreneur: Founded and operated 4 small businesses since 2003. Environmental, Health & Safety Compliance & Program Related: 19 plus years of hazardous waste management including EPA, TCEQ & RCRA regulations 8 years of DOT/FMCSA compliance experience, including hazardous materials transportation 8 years of combined experience implementing and managing OSHA health and safety compliance programs for 2 high risk energy services businesses Successfully implemented and gained ISO 9001 Quality Management Certification and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health & Safety Advisory Service) Certification for wind energy maintenance business. Regulatory Enforcement Related Experience: Served as expert witness in criminal environmental compliance enforcement cases Superfund-CERCLA OSHA enforcement inspections, investigations and resolution in following industries: industrial services, manufacturing & construction. TCEQ enforcement inspections, investigations and resolution in manufacturing.

Checkout Our Youtube Channel Re-Boot: We help small manufacturing & industrial companies understand OSHA & EPA compliance and risk