Texas OSHA Compliance | OSHA and EHS Compliance Texas

Our Safety Consultants Make The Difference

Our Safety Consultants Are The Key To Our Success Our company specializes in helping small manufacturing, construction and industrial services companies manage workplace safety. In addition to our proven & proprietary outsourced OSHA compliance services, we employ a team of experienced and qualified safety consultants who deploy to client locations all over the country to help them manage health and safety requirements. Our safety consulting team understand how to implement and manage EHS programs with a common sense approach that balances [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T13:01:47-05:00October 18th, 2017|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Effective OSHA Inspection Management

Many high hazard industries such as manufacturing and construction, especially small ones, are unaware of the potential risks related to OSHA fines and penalties. For example, did you know that OSHA increased fines by 78% on 8/1/16? These increases raised the maximum fines for “Serious” Violations (the most common type) from $7,000 to $12,476, and “Willful” and “Repeats” from $70.000 to $124,709 each. Non compliant companies routinely receive fines that can run into the $tens or even $hundreds of thousands of [...]

By Russell Carr|2021-10-21T22:20:14-05:00October 10th, 2017|OSHA Health & Safety, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

How I “Met” OSHA and Why It Launched a New Business

It was January of 2009 and I was attending a health and safety conference in San Diego, CA for the wind energy industry. I had started a small wind energy operations and maintenance services business in 2007, which rapidly grew from a few employees to over 40 in that first 2 years of operation. From the beginning I was determined to make safety a priority, but didn’t really understand what that meant. What I did know was that my employees [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T13:00:45-05:00July 3rd, 2017|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

OSHA Fines Austin Area Manufacturer $459,618

Update: Although this major OSHA fine occurred in 2017, similar fines continue to be issued to Texas manufacturers who fail to keep up with OSHA health and safety compliance. Checkout the details of this enforcement action and helpful safety compliance resources at the bottom of this blog. OSHA announced this week that they fined an Austin area manufacturer a total of $459,918 for a long list of health and safety violations. This is one of the largest single OSHA fines [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T12:51:15-05:00May 4th, 2017|Government Regulation, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Texas Workers Compensation Insurance Requirements

Texas Doesn’t Require Employers to Provide Workers Compensation Insurance In case you didn’t know, Texas doesn’t require companies to carry Workers Compensation insurance to protect their employees from workplace injury related costs. Texas is the ONLY state in the country that doesn’t require employers to carry Workers Compensation insurance. That’s right, the only state in the country. It’s a surprising fact and many Texans don’t even know about. The situation can create devastating problems for injured workers and their families, [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T13:03:49-05:00May 3rd, 2017|Good To Know, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, State & Local Regulation, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Q1 EHS Regulatory Compliance Update

It’s hard to believe that we’re already through the first quarter of 2017, but here we are. A lot has happened during Q1 in regards to environmental, health and safety regulations and policy so I’ll do my best to cover the highlights in this blog post. Topics: ▪ OSHA Update: New Rules and Deadlines ▪ The Trump Effect on EHS Regulations ▪ EPA Office of Small Business Hosts TX Environmental Regulations Stakeholder Meeting To Discuss Potential Roll-Backs OSHA Update: New Rules [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T12:55:00-05:00April 18th, 2017|Fed Regulation, Government Regulation, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, State & Local Regulation, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off