Corporate Safety Services of Colorado

02/04/2025

Anyone keeping up?

119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 86

To abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 3, 2025

Mr. Biggs of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce

A BILL
To abolish the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Nullify Occupational Safety and Health Administration Act” or the “NOSHA Act”.

SEC. 2. IN GENERAL.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 is repealed. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is abolished.

09/04/2024

That truck looks great!

08/30/2024

We now have the Guide to Safe Work Practices for Masonry Professionals in stock ready to ship. The booklet is 6” X 4” and easily fits in your back pocket. It is 56 pages and it’s reversable, 26 pages in English, flip it over and 26 pages in Spanish. Every masonry employee should have one and ideally it should be issued during every new-hire orientation. These booklets are $6.95 each plus tax and shipping. Revitalize your safety training program by getting one of these booklets into each employee’s back pocket. When OSHA asks how you’re conducting employee safety training this would be a great example to show them. Contact us if you have questions or to place an order. mike@corporatesafetyservices.com

07/18/2024

We are expanding! Within the last month we have added a location in Kentucky and just this week we began providing safety services in my home state of North Carolina.

And this couldn’t have happened without the addition of Mr. Bill Parsons to Corporate Safety Services. Bill is one of the greatest safety professionals in the United States and he has come full circle. Bill founded National Safety Programs and Training in 1987 which became Corporate Safety Services in 1995.

If you are in Colorado, Kentucky or North Carolina and need help with your safety culture you can contact us through our website,

Helping Our Clients With All Aspects of OSHA Compliance

04/01/2024

OSHA issues final rule requiring employers to submit all construction sites and work locations each month

WASHINGTON – OSHA today announced a final rule requiring all employers to submit to OSHA a list of their workplaces/construction projects monthly beginning today, April 1.

The Occupational Safety and Health Act gives OSHA the authority to conduct inspections at any reasonable time in any place of employment. Having a list of every employer’s locations, including construction sites, will make it easier for Compliance Officers to conduct these inspection in a more efficient and timely manner.

Consistent with OSHA’s historic practice, the rule requires every employer to create an online account on the OSHA web site where a designated company representative will enter or upload the following information for every work site location at the beginning of every month:

- Name of project
- Address of project
- Name of foreman/superintendent
- On site representative’s cell phone number
- Dates your employees will be on site that month

The rule is in part a response to a 2017 court decision ruling the agency’s existing regulation, 29 CFR 1903.8(c), was legally entitled to this information in order to facilitate frequent and regular inspections of work sites in the United States.

“Employer involvement in the inspection process is essential for thorough and effective inspections and making workplaces safer,” said Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health Doug Parker. “The Occupational Safety and Health Act gives employers and employees equal opportunity for assisting during the OSHA inspection process, and this rule returns us to the fair, balanced approach Congress intended.”
The rule is effective on April 1, 2024.

OSHA Media Contacts:

Mr. A. Fool - aprilfool@gotyou.org

10/21/2023

So as a member of the Delegates Committee of the National Safety Council I attended my first meeting today. In the next few days I’ll share some insights into new goals and programs that we are working on.

10/19/2023

I am writing this as I suppress my anger over an incident that occurred within the last hour or so. David (oldest son and business partner) pulled up at a job site here in Denver at 1:30pm to conduct an audit. As he was walking up to the building, he heard people yelling and saw smoke coming from a third-floor window. A spark from welding had gotten inside a wall and caught the insulation/whatever on fire. David watched as several workers from different trades grabbed a hose attached to a fire hydrant (for dust control) and enter the building and go up the stairwell. David questioned a foreman for one of the subs on whether that was a good idea and was told, “That’s what we’re supposed to do.” As David watched, and as time went by, he wondered why he didn’t hear any sirens. Why? Because no one called 911 to alert the fire department. After the smoke dissipated the general contractor’s superintendent, who was helping put out the fire, walked out of the building and walked up to David because he had been told that David was a “safety guy” and asked, “Do you think I should call the fire department?” David told him he should have called them the moment someone saw smoke. Period. It doesn’t matter if you think you can successfully put out the fire. Calling 911 for a fire on a construction project is not optional. Fire could smolder in a wall for hours before flaring up again. The Fire Department eventually showed up. And I was told the Denver Fire Department was outraged that over 25 minutes had elapsed from the start of the fire until 911 was called. I’m sure there will be more to come from them.

My point is to please educate all your employees that when they see smoke or fire, they should call 911 before making any decision about fighting the fire. Even if someone else has already called 911 the operator will tell you that and you will at least know that help is on the way regardless.

Maybe there’s a reason that OSHA says all employees must have fire awareness/prevention training once a year. Maybe that’s why OSHA says each employer on a construction site must have an Emergency Action Plan on what to do in these situations and that all your employees must be briefed on the plan.

10/17/2023

I talk a lot about companies here in the US that still don’t seem to care about their employee’s safety. This morning I got a call from a company that does mostly trenching and excavating here on the Front Range, and they asked for my help with some “OSHA citations.” They seemed a little vague on the details, so I searched the OSHA web site for their history. Surprise, surprise!

OSHA visit in February of this year, 2 citations for trenching. One Serious, one Willful, total fine $68,000.

OSHA follow up visit in March of this year, 6 citations for trenching. Five Serious, another Willful, total fine $132,000.
They are now in the OSHA Severe Violator Program for at least the next year.

While we carry professional liability insurance, I don’t ever intend to use it and in this case, it was an easy answer, “We’re not interested.” Both Willful citations were for having employees in a deep trench without any protection. Obviously, this employer isn’t concerned about his employee’s safety on the job. And OSHA’s statement that “If we find an employer who doesn’t care about their employee’s safety, we will put them out of business with penalties” seems appropriate here.

04/18/2023

Tomorrow, April 19th, at 10am MST I’m conducting a free webinar on OSHA training requirements. It will include resources for training materials that are also free for you to download and use. Just follow the Zoom link below:

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01/26/2023

Peter Dillon's company could have prevented the November 2021 death if it had used "legally required trench protection systems," the Department of Labor said.