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If you've followed over from my LinkedIn post, see the first of the Top 10 OSHA compliance mistakes made and lessons learned below....  And thanks for reading. Dual Tasking An Existing Manager With OSHA Compliance Duties Once I committed to implementing an OSHA compliance program, I quickly realized that I lacked the time, and knowledge to do it all on my own. I was always involved and active but needed help, so decided to delegate these responsibilities to my [...]

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Eventually, due to OSHA fines or environmental fines and penalties, or a serious employee injury, or other EHS related problem, many small Texas companies are eventually forced to confront their EHS compliance dilemma, and decide whether to tackle the problem internally or to outsource their OSHA, environmental, and EHS compliance. Berg Compliance Solutions, LLC (BCS) offers safety management services that protect your workforce and keeps your company compliant with regulatory requirements – for about 70% less than the cost of [...]

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 [...]