Struggling with OSHA & Environmental Compliance?

EHS Compliance For Small Business in Texas

A very high percentage of the people who end up contacting us either own or work for a small business who is struggling to manage OSHA, environmental or hazardous materials compliance issues at their company and are looking for help.

Talk to anyone who’s responsible for managing EHS compliance at a small company, and they’ll tell you how incredibly tough it can be trying to juggle running a small business while at the same time trying to manage what feels like an overwhelming, complicated and ever changing set of environmental, health and safety laws and regulations that impact their business.

The fact is that most small companies simply lack the internal expertise, time, money and resources needed to keep up and manage it all.

To make matters worse, this dilemma ends up putting small businesses at much greatest risk for significant non-compliance related liabilities such as major regulatory fines and penalties (after an OSHA inspection for example), skyrocketing insurance costs, lost customers, PR nightmares and sometimes even civil and criminal liabilities if things go wrong.

These risks can be devastating and in some cases could even destroy a small business. Regulatory fines and penalties can literally run into the $tens or even $hundreds of thousands of dollars, and let’s face it, not many small businesses have that kind of money just lying around.

In more serious situations when employees get seriously injured or killed on the job, and if it can be proven that management was negligent in managing OSHA compliance, then civil or even criminal liabilities can be triggered. These liabilities can end up costing a business $millions of dollars and even jail time. These same risks can trigger when serious environmental violations occur.

Many small business owners and companies aren’t aware of the significant peril they face by failing to manage the environmental, health and safety compliance regulations that apply to their business, and many only end up finding out after it’ too late.

Checkout this vital video to learn more about the risks and what steps your company can take TODAY to manage and reduce them.

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By Russell Carr|2020-06-16T18:34:25-05:00April 24th, 2018|Government Regulation, 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.

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