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Eventually, due to OSHA fines or environmental fines and penalties, or a serious employee injury, or other EHS related problem, many small Texas companies are eventually forced to confront their EHS compliance dilemma, and decide whether to tackle the problem internally or to outsource their OSHA, environmental, and EHS compliance. Berg Compliance Solutions, LLC (BCS) offers safety management services that protect your workforce and keeps your company compliant with regulatory requirements – for about 70% less than the cost of [...]

Are you a small company trying to decide whether to hire an in-house safety manager or outsource your OSHA compliance?  Are your goals OSHA compliance and avoidance of OSHA fines and penalties, and protecting your workforce? Or are you also concerned about environmental compliance and avoidance of TCEQ and EPA fines and penalties?  Whether you're goals include both OSHA and environmental compliance, hiring an in-house EHS manager is no guarantee of compliance or success.  I've learned this the hard [...]

This blog post is designed to cover all of the basic things that general contractors need to know about OSHA compliance, and most importantly how OSHA views and regulates the relationship between general contractor and subcontractor safety compliance. We put this together because we’ve found that there’s lots of misunderstandings among GC’s about how all of this works. I'd like to start off by talking a little about some current OSHA enforcement trends, and then some background information about what [...]

Many Companies Make The Mistake of Believing They Can Outsource Their OSHA Compliance to OSHCON Throughout the years I've had many small business owners and managers tell me something like, "we don't need your help, we use OSHCON and they manage all of our OSHA compliance." Don't get me wrong, OSHCON is a fantastic and free resource for helping small companies to build safety programs, but they can't do it all for you nor can they protect your company from [...]

OSHA Compliance For Texas Companies Many business owners and executives feel overwhelmed by OSHA regulations, and complain that they and their staff are just too busy and lack the time, resources and expertise to properly manage everything.  That may be true, but OSHA doesn’t care nor does it give “passes,” even to small companies. This dictum from OSHA’s website says it all: Who’s OSHA anyway?  OSHA, or the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, was created in 1971 and is a division [...]