Safety Coordinator Training and Mentoring for Texas Manufacturers

We build your EHS program and mentor your safety coordinator to run it.

Whether you've handed safety to someone in HR, Operations, or Quality, or hired a junior safety manager, FACTORY-Safe Mentor gives them a proven process, the right tools, and an experienced mentor who checks their work, across OSHA, TCEQ, and EPA requirements, so your plant gets an EHS program that actually runs.

Texas Manufacturers We Support

See where your EHS program stands before your coordinator takes it over.

Why In-House Safety So Often Falls Short

Most small manufacturers take one of two paths: they dual-task safety to an unqualified, inexperienced employee who already has a full-time job, often in HR, Operations, or Quality, or they hire a junior safety manager and leave them to figure it out on their own. Either way, no one is there to guide them, check their work, or catch what they miss. And once TCEQ and EPA environmental rules come into play, even experienced safety people are often out of their depth.

What usually goes wrong:

Little or no EHS training or experience

No one shows them what OSHA, TCEQ, and EPA actually require

TCEQ and EPA rules they were never trained on

No proven process or tools to work from

No one qualified to oversee, verify, and manage their work

When they leave, the program leaves with them

What This Really Means for Your Plant

Here's what's really on your mind:

You're worried that...

Your safety person is in over their head
No one can tell whether their work is actually right
A missed permit or hazardous waste rule leads to TCEQ or EPA penalties
An OSHA inspection would expose gaps nobody knew about
You'll have to start over every time someone leaves

You want to feel confident that...

Get the clarity you need to move forward with confidence

There's a Better Way to Build Safety Talent

You don't have to choose between relying on a consultant forever and leaving an untrained employee, or a new junior safety manager, on their own.

With FACTORY-Safe Mentor, Berg builds your program and gives your safety person a proven process, the right tools, and an experienced mentor who oversees, verifies, and coaches their work, on both the safety and the environmental side.

By the end, you have a program that holds up when OSHA or a customer asks to see it, and a coordinator who can run it with confidence.

Who FACTORY-Safe Mentor Is For

FACTORY-Safe Mentor is a fit if you're a small or mid-sized Texas manufacturer and:

✓You've dual-tasked safety to someone in HR, Operations, or Quality
✓You've hired a junior safety manager who needs a proven process, tools, and someone to check their work
✓You want an in-house safety person but can't justify a full-time, experienced EHS manager
✓You just lost your safety manager and don't want to start over from scratch
✓You want to bring safety in-house over time, without going it alone
✓You have TCEQ or EPA requirements, like air permits, stormwater, or hazardous waste, and no one in-house who truly understands them

Not the right fit? If you'd rather have Berg handle everything long-term, see FACTORY-Safe. If you need an experienced safety professional on-site every week, see EHS & Safety Staffing.

See where your program stands today, and what your coordinator will need to run it.

Berg Compliance Solutions: We Build EHS Programs and Develop the People Who Run Them

Why Manufacturers Choose FACTORY-Safe Mentor

Hands-on training that teaches your safety person how to understand, build, and run a complete EHS program
A named, experienced Berg mentor who works side by side with them for the full program
Regular oversight and verification of their work, so mistakes get caught before OSHA or TCEQ finds them
The proven FACTORY-Safe process, built around your plant and your operations
Safety and environmental compliance covered: OSHA, TCEQ, and EPA
Safety-Trac and Enviro-Trac to track programs, inspections, and records in one place
Our video training library, so your safety person can train your crews

Russell Carr, Founder and CEO

"The number one mistake I've seen small manufacturers make over the years is dual-tasking safety to an unqualified, inexperienced staff member in HR, Operations, or Quality, and somehow expecting it to work. They already have full-time jobs, and they don't know how to manage safety, so it simply doesn't get done. I know, because I made the same mistake myself.

A close second is hiring a junior safety manager and then leaving them on their own, with no proven process, no tools, and no one to oversee, verify, and manage their work. And very few safety people, junior or not, understand TCEQ and EPA environmental requirements. Either way, an inspection, an injury, or a customer audit eventually exposes every gap at once.

FACTORY-Safe Mentor fixes both. We build your program the right way, and we give your safety person the process, the tools, and an experienced mentor who checks their work, so they are set up to succeed instead of set up to fail."

How FACTORY-Safe Mentor Works

Responsibility shifts from Berg to your coordinator or safety manager in three phases, with your mentor overseeing the work the whole way:

Build

Months 1 to 4: Berg runs the FACTORY-Safe process, from the risk assessment to written programs, training, and inspections. Your coordinator shadows every step and completes the core curriculum.

Transfer

Months 5 to 10: Your safety person takes the lead on inspections, training, and recordkeeping in Safety-Trac, while your mentor oversees, verifies, and coaches the work.

Sustain

Months 11 to 18: Your coordinator runs the program day to day, with monthly check-ins, quarterly audits, and backup on complex issues.

Environmental Compliance: The Part Most Safety People Never Learned

OSHA is only half the picture. Texas manufacturers also answer to TCEQ and the EPA, and environmental rules are some of the most complex, technical regulations a plant faces. Most safety professionals are trained in OSHA, not environmental compliance. Finding a safety person who truly understands TCEQ and EPA requirements is rare, and finding a junior one is nearly impossible.

Here's what your safety person would be expected to know:

Air permits

Which permits by rule or standard permits your equipment needs, and how changes affect them

Stormwater

Multi-Sector General Permit coverage, pollution prevention plans, inspections, and sampling

Hazardous waste

Waste determinations, generator status, labeling, storage limits, manifests, and disposal

Chemical reporting

Tier II inventories and other annual reports with hard deadlines

Spill prevention

SPCC plans and secondary containment for oil storage

Wastewater

Pretreatment permits and discharge limits from your local sewer authority

How FACTORY-Safe Mentor covers it: You choose how it works. Berg can train your safety person to manage your TCEQ and EPA compliance, with an experienced mentor checking their work, or Berg's environmental consultants can handle it for you: the permits, plans, and reports, with everything tracked in Enviro-Trac. Hazardous waste is where our company started in 2003, so environmental compliance is a core service for us, not an add-on.

Start building your program and your coordinator today.

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Every month without a working program and a trained coordinator is another month of risk.

The plants that stay ahead build safety programs, and safety people, that last.

Here's what happens next:

Texas Manufacturers Trust Berg Compliance Solutions

“Tommy and the team at Berg have been wonderful to work with. At Alpha Granite, safety is our top priority. Berg Compliance understands our industry and has taken our safety program and implementation to another level. Berg Compliance has engaged our employees and instilled a safety-first mentality in our workforce. Tommy is a pleasure to work with and is always available to answer any questions we have. Take your safety program to another level and hire these guys!”

“I reached out to Berg to do an overall SHE assessment at my previous employer. Their knowledge and detailed work on the assessment gave us confidence in hiring them to ensure continued compliance in our overall SHE program. They were extremely flexible and didn’t ‘nickel and dime’ us, like you may get with bigger firms. I highly recommend them.”

“We hired Berg Compliance solutions in June of 2017 to help us resolve OSHA citations and get our company to full OSHA compliance. Since then, Berg has worked hard to close out our OSHA citations, write manuals, LOTO procedures, hazard assessments, provide detailed reports of physical changes needed to our equipment, as well as conducted several required onsite training classes. They did this with absolute minimum work on our end or disruption to our business. Berg has been on time, dependable, friendly, and a huge asset to our team.”

“I’ve had the pleasure of working with Berg Compliance Solutions to shore up our confidence in our EHS compliance. As a small company, we can’t dedicate a resource to becoming an expert in this field, so partnering with Berg in this capacity has been fantastic. They have driven our compliance schedule and audits to ensure we have a safe workplace for our employees. Everyone we have engaged with at Berg has been a very personable and competent individual with great leadership. Please consider hearing from them how they could partner with you!”

“Berg Environmental Services provide exemplary service in handling our waste needs. I am confident in their expertise. They are prompt to our requests and work to our schedule.”

“At Distinct Capital Group, our employees’ safety is our top priority. We partnered with Berg Compliance Solutions to help us ensure our facilities comply with all EHS requirements. They’ve worked with our team to enhance all of our OSHA and environmental programs, and continue to help manage these throughout the year. This partnership has worked out great. It allows us to focus on our core business, while at the same time having a third party ensure that we are staying in-line with our regulatory obligations. We see great value in their services and would recommend Berg Compliance Solutions to other manufacturers seeking the same benefits.”

Berg Compliance Solutions has been a great partner. They have worked with us on all aspects of environmental, health, and safety. They have both established and enhanced our programs to ensure we are in compliance with all the of the various regulatory agencies. They have provided the expertise we needed for compliance and offered suggestions on how we could improve. We are very pleased with their support!”

“Our management team is focused on building top-quality projects, on time. This is obviously a big priority, but we’re also committed to our OSHA health & safety compliance program to protect our workers, subcontractors, and the company. Berg Compliance Solutions has stepped in to help fill that gap and manage these issues with us. They train our employees, conduct routine inspections, and provide very detailed reports that help us identify, understand, and correct hazards, as well as helping implement and manage all of our other OSHA compliance requirements. We would highly recommend Berg Compliance Solutions to any construction company needing assistance with their OSHA compliance programs.”

“Berg Compliance Solutions has exceeded our expectations. They’re our one stop shop for safety.”

“At my former employer, we were able to implement our safety program before operations ever began, which made it much easier. However, this company has been in operation for years, and so the thought of implementing an EHS program seemed like a huge mountain to climb. But the structured process at Berg Compliance Solutions made it so easy to manage, and has been a huge benefit to the company.”

“Berg Compliance Solutions went 'over and above' in helping us through a recent OSHA enforcement investigation. Their support was great and instrumental in allowing us to prevent many citations, eliminate others, and greatly reduce our fines. And now they’re already helping us correct all of the problems to ensure that they don’t happen again.”

“We’re very happy with the services from Berg Compliance Solutions, and feel that the investment is worth every penny. Berg Compliance Solutions has stepped in and managed all OSHA compliance issues for us.”

“Berg Compliance Solutions has provided consistent professional safety inspections and training to our company over the last two years. Berg inspectors provide a thorough monthly inspection report for each job site, identifying any safety concerns and providing suggested corrective actions. Berg Compliance Solutions created an in-depth safety manual for our growing company to address safety concerns in the construction industry. Their team of trained professionals have been extremely helpful and easy to work with in developing the safety plan for our company.

“We just did not have the time to do it right. That is where we found ourselves before contacting Berg. Two years ago, our internal goal was to improve and legitimize our safety program. Berg worked with us the entire way, creating JHAs, training, presentations, and monthly inspection reports. Our program is outstanding now and we continue to partner with Berg for compliance and training needs. Our employees have recognized the difference and the commitment through our efforts with Berg.”

"We initially chose to use Berg for their expertise because we believe it is not cost effective to develop that level of depth internally. We continue to use Berg because Berg is not your typical EHS consulting company. EHS consulting companies can sometimes be difficult, even downright obnoxious, about what part they play on the team. The Berg team always presents the options for who should do which tasks, and then truly steps back and lets you decide how much you will do internally, and what you want the Berg Experts to do. Teaming with Berg is making the load of becoming a safe and compliant company, much, much lighter.”

“We are a nanotechnology startup in SW Austin, and have worked with Berg Compliance Solutions for support with EHS compliance for going on two years now. BCS has been there for us at every turn, and has provided consistent, professional, and top-notch service and guidance since day one. We highly recommend BCS to any other small business looking for an EHS partner with the experience and track-record to provide peace of mind in all aspects of EHS regulatory compliance.”

Get the same results these Texas manufacturers achieved.

The Cost of Going It Alone

Leaving an untrained coordinator, or a junior safety manager, on their own puts you at risk of:

⚠️ Immediate Threats:

And best of all, we're 100% manufacturing focused.

⚠️ Long-term Consequences:

But here's the good news: You can avoid all of this by taking action now.

Find out how ready your program and your coordinator really are

Imagine Your Plant 18 Months From Now

Picture this:

Your EHS program is complete and current. Your coordinator runs inspections, training, and recordkeeping with confidence, and knows exactly when to call their mentor. When OSHA or a customer asks to see your program, you are ready.

This is exactly what FACTORY-Safe Mentor is built to deliver.

Safety Coordinator Training and Mentoring FAQ

What is safety coordinator training and mentoring?

It is a program where Berg builds and manages your EHS program while an experienced Berg consultant trains, mentors, and oversees your in-house safety coordinator or junior safety manager, so they can run the program on their own.

Who should be our safety coordinator?

Someone with an EHS background, such as a safety coordinator, junior safety manager, or an employee with real safety or environmental experience. The more EHS knowledge and experience they bring, the faster they can take ownership of your program. They should also be organized, respected on the floor, and given dedicated time for safety every week, not just whatever time is left over.

We already hired a junior safety manager. Is this for us?

Yes. FACTORY-Safe Mentor gives a junior safety manager a proven process, Safety-Trac, and an experienced Berg mentor who oversees and verifies their work, so they grow into the role instead of struggling alone.

Does FACTORY-Safe Mentor cover TCEQ and EPA environmental compliance?

Yes, and you choose how. We can train your safety person to manage your TCEQ and EPA requirements, including air permits, stormwater, hazardous waste, and chemical reporting, with a Berg mentor checking their work. Or Berg's environmental consultants can handle it for you. Either way, everything is tracked in Enviro-Trac.

How long does the program take?

Most manufacturers complete it in 12 to 18 months, in three phases: Build, Transfer, and Sustain. Responsibility shifts from Berg to your safety person as they are ready.

What happens after the program ends?

We develop a customized plan to meet your needs, with monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly check-ins, so your safety person still has an experienced mentor and a second set of eyes.

What if our coordinator leaves during the program?

Your program stays in place, documented in Safety-Trac, and we can train and mentor a replacement so you are not starting from scratch.

How much does FACTORY-Safe Mentor cost?

It depends on your plant and the scope of your program. Pricing is a predictable monthly fee, and it steps down as your safety person takes over. After a short call, we will give you a clear number.

Take Action Today

Give your coordinator the training and support to succeed.

A complete EHS program built and managed by Berg while your coordinator learns
A named, experienced mentor for your coordinator
Hands-on training in how to understand and run your EHS program
Safety-Trac and our training library for your coordinator
Hazardous waste compliance and disposal, if needed

Contact: Call 888-784-1405 or email info@bes-corp.com