OSHA Enforcement Trends in Texas

OSHA Enforcement In addition to exposing their employees to serious injuries and even fatalities, non-compliant employers expose themselves to severe punitive measures, including huge fines and penalties and even potential criminal liability directed towards business owners. When these things happen, businesses often suffer additional public humiliation and PR nightmares when OSHA issues press releases that get published and written about in local newspapers, trade journals and on-line for the local community, competitors and worst of all, customers to see. If [...]

By |2020-06-01T17:48:42-05:00July 17th, 2016|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations|Comments Off on OSHA Enforcement Trends in Texas

OSHA Compliance & Training Services in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston Texas

OSHA Health & Safety Training Services in Texas Berg Compliance Solutions, LLC. (BCS) offers safety training and on-site and virtual EHS management services that protect your workforce and keeps your company compliant with regulatory requirements – for about 75% less than the cost of an in-house safety manager. BCS has significant experience in developing and assessing health and safety programs and procedures for our clients, which include general industry, construction, and hazardous waste operations. With an ASSURED ComplianceSM Program from [...]

By |2022-03-21T12:47:00-05:00July 12th, 2016|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations|Comments Off on OSHA Compliance & Training Services in Austin, San Antonio, Dallas, Houston Texas

OSHA Training Requirments in Texas

Learn More About How To Manage Safety Training Most small Texas manufacturing and construction companies struggle with understanding and managing OSHA training requirements, however failing to do so puts employees at risk for serious injuries and even fatalities, and the company at risk for huge fines and penalties.  Just because a company is small and under resourced is no excuse and they have the same requirements as large companies. Here's a quick summary of basic OSHA training and standard requirements: [...]

By |2022-03-21T13:03:54-05:00July 12th, 2016|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations|Comments Off on OSHA Training Requirments in Texas

OSHA Fines Increased by 78% In August, Is Your Company Ready?

We posted the blog below back in 2016 when OSHA originally increased fines by 78% to account for inflation.  Since those original increase, fines have continued to increase every year (and will continue to do so) to account for inflation. As of July 2021, here are updated maximum fine amounts: "Serious" and "Other Than Serious": $13,653 "Repeat" and "Willful": $136,532 As you can see, Repeat and Willful violations are approximately 10x the cost of Serious violations.  It's important to [...]

By |2022-03-21T12:50:49-05:00June 27th, 2016|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations|Comments Off on OSHA Fines Increased by 78% In August, Is Your Company Ready?

Hiring An In-House Environmental, Health & Safety Manager Doesn’t Necessarily Result In Compliance

The title and subject of this blog post may come as a surprise to some readers, but certainly not all of you. The fact is, it’s often true that companies who choose to hire an in-house EHS manager subsequently fail to achieve nor maintain regulatory compliance. This scenario is especially true among small companies, which will be the focus of this blog post. All too often, once small businesses come to the realization that they need EHS compliance help, [...]

By |2021-10-21T22:22:04-05:00June 16th, 2016|Good To Know, OSHA Health & Safety|Comments Off on Hiring An In-House Environmental, Health & Safety Manager Doesn’t Necessarily Result In Compliance

New OSHA Rule Spells Potential Trouble For Employers

Update August 20201: OSHA's electronic injury and illness reporting requirements remain in effect although many impacted companies remain unaware of this requirement. We are updating this blog to make employers aware and to answer basic questions: Last week OSHA announced a significant new rule which will mandate that virtually all employers in high hazard industries (including manufacturing and construction) submit their safety record data to electronically OSHA each year (ie: OSHA 300 logs). OSHA will then publish those records on-line [...]

By |2022-03-21T12:50:51-05:00May 18th, 2016|OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations|Comments Off on New OSHA Rule Spells Potential Trouble For Employers