NOT ALL EHS CONSULTING COMPANIES ARE THE SAME

If you found our website on-line, there’s a pretty good chance that you own or work for a small business who is looking for help with environmental, health and safety compliance issues, and are researching options, which probably includes considering help from an EHS consulting company.

If that’s the case, then stick around for a few minutes because that’s what this blog post is all about.

My name is Russell Carr, and I’m the founder and president of our company.

I decided to create this short blog post to briefly introduce our company and to explain how and why we’re different than other environmental, health and safety consulting companies.

I’ve been in this industry a long time, and believe that there’s a common misconception among our target market prospects & clients that all EHS consulting companies are the same, but that’s definitely not the case.

Stick with me for the next few minutes and I’m going to explain why.

We know that there are a lot of consulting companies options out there, that this is a big decision for you and your company and that you don’t want to make a mistake, so we’re hoping that this will help you make a more informed decision and decide if we might be a good fit.

In summary, we’re different in 5 major ways and here they are:

Our focus on working with small businesses. There’s some very important reasons why we do this, and I’ll talk more about that in a minute.
Our turn-key outsourced EHS compliance service designed specifically for small business
Full service company: we can manage all aspects of EHS compliance including hazardous waste management
Our unique understanding of the challenges facing small companies when trying to manage EHS compliance. This gives us a huge advantage and I’ll talk more about that in a minute.
Listen To What Our Clients Have To Say

So let’s briefly take a closer look at these 5 major differences:

1) We focus almost entirely on working with small companies. The majority of our clients have less than 100 employees. We focus on working with small companies because they almost always lack the internal expertise, time and resources needed to keep up with these regulations, which results in non-compliance and therefore puts then at greatest risk.

When I say risk, I’m talking about serious employee injuries, lost business and money, huge regulatory fines and penalties that can run into the $10s or even$hundreds of thousands of dollar, & even civil and even criminal liabilities if things go wrong

We understand all of this, which again is why we focus on working with small companies.

2)We’ve answered these challenges by offering a very unique proven and proprietary turn-key EHS compliance solution called Assured Compliance, designed for small business, which will do two things: 1) Get your company compliant with OSHA, TCEQ & EPA regulations, and therefore 2) reduce all of these risks.

Here’s a quick summary of the benefits of our service:

Keeps your company in line with ALL EHS regulatory requirements
Gives you access to our team of experts (many of our competitors are “one person” operations with zero redundancy)
Saves you money
Protects your workforce
Protects your business from the potentially devastating risks associated with non-compliance
ALLOWS YOU AND YOUR STAFF TO FOCUS ON YOUR CORE COMPETENCY & GROW YOUR BUSINESS
All for less than 1/2 the cost of an in-house EHS Manager

We will check all of the EHS compliance boxes and by the end of the first 12 months, we’ll actually guarantee your OSHA compliance. We can do the same for your environmental and hazardous materials compliance if you need help in those areas.

All for a fixed monthly fee that’s typically ¼ to 1/3 the cost of a full time safety manager. This is very different than most of our competitors who not only won’t guarantee their work, but typically work on a project by project basis. I’ll talk more about costs is a minute..

3)We area a full Service EHS compliance company. Most consulting companies either focus on health and safety issues, or environmental compliance, but not both. We are one of the few that can handle both areas, and we can also help with hazardous waste management.We are your one stop shop for all of your environmental, health and safety compliance needs. Very few EHS consulting companies can say that.

4) Finally, we’re different because of my own unique understanding of the challenges that small companies face when managing these regulations, because I used to own and operate 3 small contracting companies that had major safety risks, one of them in the wind business. This is a picture from a project in Oregon a few years ago. And the point is that I struggled for years trying to manage our OSHA compliance. Those experiences were what inspired me to start this company, to help other small business owners and companies to manage OSHA, environmental and hazardous materials regulations. So I really understand the challenges that you’re facing today, because I’ve been there. This gives us a huge advantage and allowed me to develop and tailor our services to meet the needs of small businesses.

5)I’ll end off by referring to what our clients have to say in the video on our testimonials page. We surveyed a bunch of them and after analyzing the responses, 4 major common benefits or themes emerged:

Competent
Responsive
Consistent
Easy To Work With

Hopefully this brief introduction gives you a better idea of who we are, and how and why we’re different than other environmental, health and safety consulting companies.

If you’re a small business in need of OSHA or environmental compliance help

give us a call at 512-457-0374 or click here to schedule a free consultation

Thanks for reading and we look forward to hearing from you.

By Russell Carr|2021-10-21T22:19:08-05:00September 18th, 2018|Government Regulation, Hazardous Waste Management, OSHA Health & Safety, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, Safety Training, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off

About the Author: Russell Carr

How A Sales Guy Transformed Into An Environmental, Health & Safety Expert & Advocate For Small Businesses I've spent my entire 30+ year career working within the manufacturing and “industrial services” sectors. The first 15 years of my career focused on sales of hazardous materials related products and services to the manufacturing sector, then for the last 16+ years transitioned into entrepreneurship, founding 3 small industrial services related contracting businesses. As you’ll see below, running these companies eventually lead me to found yet a 4th business, but more on that in a minute…. Here’s a brief description of the first 3 companies: Berg Environmental Services, Inc.: hazardous waste disposal & transportation services, founded in August of 2003 3rd party wind energy operations & maintenance services provider to utility scale wind farms throughout the US, founded in September 2007 3rd party oil & gas exploration & production services provider, founded in August of 2011 Each of these companies operated in extremely dangerous working conditions and exposed my employees to a wide range of serious health & safety hazards on a daily basis. To complicate matters, 2 of the companies also exposed the environment to significant potential harm. In other words, I learned very early the critical importance of managing environmental, health and safety issues so as to ensure the safety of our employees and the environment, as well as minimizing related risks. But I also learned how incredibly difficult and challenging this endeavor can be due to the wide range of complicated and continually changing environmental, health and safety rules and regulations that impacted the companies. To summarize the challenges: First I had to determine which regulations applied to each company, then I had to build compliance programs to meet those regulations, and finally I had to ensure that the programs were being managed and followed by our staff on a daily basis. All while trying to run and grow 3 profitable businesses…. It was overwhelming and I always struggled to keep up. To make matters worse, throughout this time I also witnessed the devastating price that companies, management and ownership can pay for failing to manage EHS compliance. This included seeing one of my hazardous waste management clients get sent to jail over environmental issues, another client’s management team threatened with jail time, a direct competitor get fined $378,000 by OSHA fine after an employee was nearly killed, and many others face major fines and penalties. Full disclosure, one of my companies got fined by OSHA at one point, & another was cited by TCEQ, so I know how it feels. In summary, I learned first hand how incredibly difficult it is for small companies to manage EHS compliance due to a common lack of the critical expertise, time and resources that are needed to keep up, and how this situation then ends up exposing them to these potentially catastrophic risks that can literally destroy lives and businesses. This later inspired me to found my 4th company, Berg Compliance Solutions in 2012, which is dedicated to helping other small businesses, and business owners, to manage EHS compliance and risk. Education BA, Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder, December, 1990. Summary of Professional Experience & Qualifications: 30+ years serving the manufacturing & industrial services sectors 30+ years of sales and marketing experience 16+ years as small business owner & entrepreneur: Founded and operated 4 small businesses since 2003. Environmental, Health & Safety Compliance & Program Related: 19 plus years of hazardous waste management including EPA, TCEQ & RCRA regulations 8 years of DOT/FMCSA compliance experience, including hazardous materials transportation 8 years of combined experience implementing and managing OSHA health and safety compliance programs for 2 high risk energy services businesses Successfully implemented and gained ISO 9001 Quality Management Certification and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health & Safety Advisory Service) Certification for wind energy maintenance business. Regulatory Enforcement Related Experience: Served as expert witness in criminal environmental compliance enforcement cases Superfund-CERCLA OSHA enforcement inspections, investigations and resolution in following industries: industrial services, manufacturing & construction. TCEQ enforcement inspections, investigations and resolution in manufacturing.

NOT ALL EHS CONSULTING COMPANIES ARE THE SAME