Why Berg Compliance Solutions Helps Small Business w/ OSHA & Environmental Compliance

Why Berg Compliance Solutions Helps Small Business w/ OSHA & Environmental Compliance

Hello, my name is Russell Carr and I’m the founder and president of Berg Environmental Services and Berg Compliance Solutions.

This is part 1 in a series of videos that tells the story of how my own personal and professional struggles trying to manage OSHA health and safety compliance while operating a small energy services that I founded in 2007 inspired me to later found Berg Compliance Solutions in 2012. We are a very unique EHS consulting company that is dedicated almost entirely to helping other small business owners and small companies to achieve and manage OSHA, environmental and hazardous materials compliance.

Watch this video and you’ll see how throughout my career as a small business owner and entrepreneur I’ve lived through many of the same environmental, health and safety compliance challenges that you’re probably facing today.

I learned first hand how incredibly difficult and challenging 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 regulations that impact the company.

I’ve also learned first hand how failing to do so can lead to all kinds of problems, risks, and losses including major regulatory fines and penalties from agencies like OSHA, TCEQ and EPA.

Unfortunately I have first hand experience dealing with these issues, and have also seen how these devastating risks have impacted other small business owners and companies throughout my career.

The fact is that just about all impacted small businesses lack the internal expertise, time, money and resources that are needed to keep up with and manage these EHS regulations, and my company was no different.

I understand the pain, frustrations and challenges that small businesses face while trying to manage these issues, and have responded by founding an EHS consulting company that is dedicated to solving the problem. We offer a very unique, proven and proprietary outsourced compliance solution that will get your small business in-line with all of the environmental, health and safety regulations that impact your business, and do so in the most cost effective, efficient and least disruptive way for your business. It’s called Assured Compliance, checkout what some of our clients have to say about our services (hyperlink to testimonials page)

Checkout the video to learn more about how my struggles managing OSHA health and safety compliance while trying to operate a small energy services company during a boom time in the wind energy business. I’ll bet you’ll relate to the story, and can learn from the many mistakes made and lessons learned along the way. By the way, it doesn’t matter whether you’re in manufacturing, construction, energy, distribution or any other high hazard industry, the story still applies, believe me when I tell you….

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By Russell Carr|2020-06-16T19:02:04-05:00May 30th, 2018|Good To Know|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.

Why Berg Compliance Solutions Helps Small Business w/ OSHA & Environmental Compliance