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Internal Company OSHA Enforcement & Accountability This is one of the most critical elements of your OSHA compliance program, because failure to consistently enforce your safety program seriously undermines and compromises the entire process. This may sound like a stretch, but it’s true. Refer to OSHA’s dictum noted on their website which states that every employer is required by law to “Provide a Safe & Health Workplace.” In other words, your company can literally have [...]

What follows is the first part of a two part blog post: The first one will discuss the difficulties involved in recruiting and hiring a qualified safety manager, and the follow up post will discuss the fact that even if your company succeeds in making a hire, it won’t necessarily guarantee that your company will become nor maintain OSHA compliance. Both posts are based on my own experiences recruiting and managing EHS managers,  as well as my experiences in [...]

Many Texas construction companies are still unprepared, and some even unaware, to deal with OSHA's updated compliance requirements for confined space entry.  These new requirements put significant responsibilities not only on companies who execute confined space entries, but also on General Contractors who are obligated to ensure the health & safety of their projects. Here's a brief summary of the key new OSHA Confined Space requirements: The following information applies to the construction industry standard for confined space, which can [...]