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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 [...]

Why did we decide to publish this blog post? Construction Falls Continue to Seriously Injure & Kill Workers & Result In Significant Fines for Texas Employers Falls Continue to be the #1 Killer at Construction Sites & Result in Significant Fines & Penalties for Employers This post provides a valuable reminder to Texas construction companies of their OSHA Fall Protection obligations, and liabilities associated with failing to do so.  Small Texas construction companies often struggle to understand and manage these [...]

Checkout our new video explaining everything you need to  know about OSHA's TRIR & DART In this blog post, we'll define and discuss two critical safety performance metrics that you need to understand in order to maintain OSHA compliance, reduce workplace injuries, and reduce the risk for OSHA fines and penalties and enforcement inspections: - TRIR: Total Recordable Incident Rate - DART: Days Away from work, days of Restricted work activity, and/or days of jobs Transfer Why [...]