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How to Hire and Retain a Manufacturing Safety Manager

How to Hire a Full Time Safety Manager, If You've Never Done It Before Are you a manufacturer thinking about bringing on your first full-time safety manager? If so, hold on a minute, because finding and retaining a skilled, effective safety manager who will actually perform & deliver ISN’T easy, especially if this is your first try. The truth is that the odds are frequently and heavily stacked against you. As the saying goes, “buyer beware,” and that’s especially true [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-11-21T14:33:54-05:00November 21st, 2024|Good To Know, OSHA Health & Safety, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

OSHA’s FABMETSH Program is Targeting Metal Fabricators in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana

Get Our FREE Fabmetsh Preparation Checklist By Clicking Below REQUEST NOW Below is a transcript of the video: Hello and welcome. Alright, so I put together this video to let you know that OSHA just renewed their enforcement program that's targeting metal fabricators in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas until 2027. And to let you know that they're already hitting companies in issuing fines that are literally running into the tens and sometimes even hundreds [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-10-06T18:27:13-05:00October 6th, 2024|Good To Know|Comments Off

OSHA Issues 2024 Heat Stress Standard

Summary of OSHA's Proposed Heat Stress Standard 2024 OSHA has released its long awaited, proposed Heat Stress standard. Keep in mind that this isn’t a law (yet), but if passed, it will create significant and complicated new requirements for employers who’s operations expose employees to excessive heat. Why Has OSHA Released the Proposed Heat Stress Standard? Let’s begin by reviewing why heat stress is so dangerous and therefore, why OSHA is trying to pass this proposed law. Heat exposure is [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-07-22T11:26:36-05:00July 22nd, 2024|Good To Know, Government Regulation, OSHA Health & Safety, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

How To Pass a Manufacturing OSHA Inspection

6 Vital Steps to Pass Your Manufacturing OSHA Inspection “Be Prepared” isn’t just a long-time Boy Scout motto — it’s a core attitude that every small manufacturing firm should keep in mind when facing their dreaded OSHA inspection. After all, OSHA violations, citations, and fines are no stroll in the woods. Penalties begin at $16,131 per violation and can top out at ten times that number for willful or repeated violations. But with thoughtful preparation and an understanding of [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-03-12T15:54:08-05:00March 12th, 2024|Good To Know|Comments Off

The 5 Steps to Building a Manufacturing Safety Committee

5 Steps to Building a Rock-Solid Manufacturing Safety Committee Many manufacturing leaders want to hire a single safety manager to supervise their facility’s OSHA and EPA compliance. One-and-done sounds nice, until you consider the fundamental truth: safety compliance can’t be the job of a single individual. It requires buy-in and implementation across every person at your plant. That’s where developing a rock-solid manufacturing safety committee comes in. This dedicated group can do what a single safety manager cannot—create a [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-02-21T11:47:04-05:00February 21st, 2024|Good To Know|Comments Off

Berg Compliance Solutions Launches New Company to Help Small Texas Steel Fabricators Manage OSHA, TCEQ & EPA Compliance & Risk

Based on Berg’s many years of experience helping small manufacturers of all kinds, the company recognized that the steel fabrication sector in particular faces some of the most serious environmental, health & safety compliance challenges & risks in all of manufacturing, yet are often least equipped to deal with them. This realization lead Berg to found Texas Steel Fabrication Safety Consulting with the mission of helping sector companies implement industry specific compliance programs to help protect their employees, the environment [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-02-08T11:13:39-05:00February 7th, 2024|Good To Know|Comments Off