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Most employers understand that they must manage OSHA safety requirements, but many are unaware of workplace health hazards, how dangerous they can be to their employees, or how to manage them. The following is a basic summary of OSHA industrial hygiene testing requirements designed to help protect employees from exposures to workplace health hazards. In summary, employers must not expose their employees to excessive levels of OSHA listed chemicals and contaminants, nor excessive noise levels. OSHA publishes PELs (permissible exposure [...]

Identifying and Abating Physical Hazards An estimated 20% of all injuries and fatalities are the result of “physical hazards” that exist in the workplace. As a result, identifying and abating these potential hazards should be a top priority for your company. If that isn’t motivation enough, then be aware that physical hazards are the “low hanging fruit” for OSHA enforcement officers and result in the vast majority of fines and penalties when enforcement inspections occur. What are “physical hazards?” Examples [...]

OSHA Enforcement In addition to exposing their employees to serious injuries and even fatalities, non-compliant employers expose themselves to severe punitive measures, including huge fines and penalties and even potential criminal liability directed towards business owners. When these things happen, businesses often suffer additional public humiliation and PR nightmares when OSHA issues press releases that get published and written about in local newspapers, trade journals and on-line for the local community, competitors and worst of all, customers to see. If [...]

OSHA Health & Safety Training Services in Texas Berg Compliance Solutions, LLC. (BCS) offers safety training and on-site and virtual EHS management services that protect your workforce and keeps your company compliant with regulatory requirements – for about 75% less than the cost of an in-house safety manager. BCS has significant experience in developing and assessing health and safety programs and procedures for our clients, which include general industry, construction, and hazardous waste operations. With an ASSURED ComplianceSM Program from [...]

Learn More About How To Manage Safety Training Most small Texas manufacturing and construction companies struggle with understanding and managing OSHA training requirements, however failing to do so puts employees at risk for serious injuries and even fatalities, and the company at risk for huge fines and penalties.  Just because a company is small and under resourced is no excuse and they have the same requirements as large companies. Here's a quick summary of basic OSHA training and standard requirements: [...]

We posted the blog below back in 2016 when OSHA originally increased fines by 78% to account for inflation.  Since those original increase, fines have continued to increase every year (and will continue to do so) to account for inflation. As of July 2021, here are updated maximum fine amounts: "Serious" and "Other Than Serious": $13,653 "Repeat" and "Willful": $136,532 As you can see, Repeat and Willful violations are approximately 10x the cost of Serious violations.  It's important to [...]