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Think Twice Before Hiring A Safety Manager

Things To Consider Before Hiring A Safety Manager Are you considering hiring an internal environmental, health and safety compliance manager for your company? If you've never done this before, you might want to think twice about the decision and here's why. Here are some of the most common challenges facing small companies when trying to recruit and hire an internal safety compliance manager: Recruiting: During recruiting process, it's very difficult to properly vet a candidate's experience & qualifications unless you [...]

By Russell Carr|2024-11-15T13:00:49-05:00January 15th, 2020|Good To Know, Hazardous Waste Management, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Don’t Get This OSHA Letter!

Last summer we received a call from the owner of a small Texas manufacturer who got inspected by OSHA and had just received the letter below. This is a 24 point laundry list of virtually all OSHA standards that apply to a typical manufacturer, and the company was in violation of all of them. How overwhelming! The owner was in a state of panic and didn’t know what to do, and unfortunately we were the ones who had to tell [...]

By Russell Carr|2021-07-19T13:08:10-05:00January 9th, 2020|Good To Know, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Don’t Get This OSHA Inspection Letter

Last summer I received a call from the owner of a small Texas manufacturer who got inspected by OSHA and had just received the this letter: It was a 24 point laundry list of virtually all OSHA standards that apply to a typical manufacturer, and the company was in violation of all of them. The owner was in a state of panic and didn’t know what to do, and unfortunately I was the one who had to tell them it [...]

By Russell Carr|2022-03-21T13:00:45-05:00January 7th, 2020|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

What Happens To Business Owners Who Don’t Pay OSHA Fines?

OSHA answered this question in a press release issued this week: They will come after the offender until they collect, plus penalties! Just ask Vasilios Saitis, owner of Altor, Inc. a construction company in New Jersey who was found in contempt of court, and was not only forced to pay the original $412,000 OSHA fine for multiple safety violations, but also $30,000 in penalties, not to mention all of the legal fees that accrued during extensive litigation. This statement [...]

By Russell Carr|2020-04-28T09:26:48-05:00December 4th, 2019|Government Regulation, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

OSHA Compliance 101 For Small Companies

Hello my name is Russell Carr, and I’m the founder and president of our company. If you’ve had any time to research us, you might already know that I founded Berg Compliance Solutions, after struggling for years trying to manage environmental, health and safety with 3 of my small contracting business and later noticing that I definitely wasn’t alone in this struggle. Our company mission is to help small companies manage environmental, health and safety regulations and related [...]

By Russell Carr|2021-07-26T12:37:23-05:00November 14th, 2019|Good To Know, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

Is Outsourcing EHS Compliance A Good Option?

Is outsourcing your environmental, health and safety compliance a good option for your company? It's very common for companies to outsourced their legal, accounting and IT needs and services, but many companies don't even know that outsourcing EHS compliance is an option... but it is. Now that you know it's an option, why would you consider it? Did you know that companies who fail to manage OSHA, EPA and state environmental and hazardous materials compliance put themselves at risk [...]

By Russell Carr|2020-04-28T09:40:09-05:00November 10th, 2019|Good To Know, Government Regulation, Hazardous Waste Management, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off