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What follows is the first part of a two part blog post: The first one will discuss the difficulties involved in recruiting and hiring a qualified safety manager, and the follow up post will discuss the fact that even if your company succeeds in making a hire, it won’t necessarily guarantee that your company will become nor maintain OSHA compliance. Both posts are based on my own internal company experiences as well as my experiences in the environmental, health [...]

Many Texas construction companies are still unprepared, and some even unaware, to deal with OSHA's updated compliance requirements for confined space entry.  These new requirements put significant responsibilities not only on companies who execute confined space entries, but also on General Contractors who are obligated to ensure the health & safety of their projects. Here's a brief summary of the key new OSHA Confined Space requirements: The following information applies to the construction industry standard for confined space, which can [...]

Berg Compliance Solutions is your OSHA safety training expert in Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, throughout Texas and beyond. An educated workforce positively affects your company’s safety culture, helps prevent serious injuries and fatalities, helps reduce your workers compensation costs and accident rates as well as avoid OSHA fines penalties for noncompliance in Texas. Berg Compliance Solutions develops and delivers safety training for specific OSHA standards and customizes training programs to meet the specific needs of your company. Whether you [...]

If you own, or work for a small manufacturing, construction, energy or industrial services business, this article definitely applies to you. I used to own and manage 2 small energy service companies. One provided operations & maintenance services to utility scale wind farms throughout the US, and the other provided vacuum tanker and frack tank services to the oil & gas exploration industry in south Texas. My employees were exposed to significant health & safety hazards on a daily basis. [...]