Cardinal Compliance Consultants

The health and safety of employees and the protection of the environment are a priority for every construction and manufacturing company. With a strong and active environment, health, and safety (EHS) culture, employers can ensure fewer incidents in the workplace and create a culture of trust, security, and comfort for employees.

Health and safety managers who break through the confines of fragmented, cookie-cutter approaches to risk reduction are better equipped to adhere to EHS standards and safety best practices.

Ohio-based Cardinal Compliance Consultants—an EHS consulting, training and industrial hygiene firm—empowers companies to achieve this with its customized technical and specialized services.

“Safety is not a mere nice-to-have program, and we understand its critical role in business,” says Richard L. Barcum, President of Cardinal Compliance Consultants. As a health and safety consultant, Cardinal Compliance recognizes that each client has different strengths, weaknesses, and challenges. The company goes above and beyond to tailor its services to fit clients’ unique needs.

What makes Cardinal stand out is its ability to deliver the full breadth of knowledge and services that health and safety managers or coordinators need to up their EHS game. For instance, safety managers may have knowledge of environmental compliance but lack the necessary understanding when it comes to electrical safety, chemical hazard prevention, or lockout/tagout procedures. Cardinal is able to fill in these gaps as well as others.

Cardinal offers a wide range of services covering all areas of EHS, including industrial safety training programs, consultation, industrial hygiene services, audits, arc flash analysis and accident investigations.

By following a holistic approach, Cardinal helps commercial, industrial, public, and private enterprises achieve and maintain occupational and environmental regulatory compliance and obtain the maximum return on safety investments.

Making a Mark with Winning Services

With the right blend of real-life experiences and technology, Cardinal offers instructor-led safety training to engage the workforce and help them instill a safety-first mindset. Cardinal leverages various learning techniques, including classroom lectures, hands-on training, workshops, and visual aids to help clients meet their training goals and conform to industry regulations. The Cardinal team can train employees on-site, virtually or in their own facility, which can accommodate up to 70 trainees at a time.

Cardinal also provides clients with health and safety program development to help them comply with OSHA, EPA, and NFPA regulations. To ensure clients stay abreast of ever-evolving regulations and stay fully compliant, Cardinal also performs robust environmental health and safety and compliance audits. The team begins with facility-wide inspections conducted with photo documentation to identify compliance pitfalls. Cardinal then provides management teams with recommendations for correcting hazards and mitigating risks to employees, occupants, the community, the environment, and business operations.

Cardinal has helped numerous clients navigate the complexities and avoid hefty penalties associated with regulatory citations. The company even represents clients at informal hearings addressing violations of regulations. Cardinal leverages its cordial relationship with OSHA to save clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in citations, enabling them to invest the money into reinforcing their safety and training programs.

In the case of workplace injuries, Cardinal conducts accident investigations and guides the client in providing for workers’ care and in taking corrective actions.

“We focus on becoming a true partner to our clients, understanding their expectations, and delivering solutions that are relevant to their situation. We ensure our services are sustainable, catering to the long term needs of clients,” says Barcum.

Paving the Path for Client Success

Backed by Certified Industrial Hygienists, Certified Safety Professionals, and Certified Hazardous Materials Managers, Cardinal guides clients through their health and safety journey.

The Cardinal team takes a one-on-one consulting approach to work closely with clients and discern gaps between management’s expectations and employees’ job execution. Whether it is a plant floor or a construction site, Cardinalconducts an assessment through a series of observations, interviews, and document reviews and reports the results of the assessments to clients’ management teams.

For clients looking to take their health and safety functioning a notch higher, Cardinal evaluates the organizational culture and overall safety management systems.

When clients partner with Cardinal, they get access to a dedicated health and safety team that provides them with proper consultation services, top-notch training, and written health and safety and environmental pollution prevention plans.

Leveraging its deep-rooted industry knowledge, Cardinal has scripted success stories for many clients. In one instance, the company engaged with a client to provide industrial hygiene monitoring. The client was challenged with high exposure levels to hazardous substances. Cardinal offered hands-on training to educate them on the respiratory hazards at the industrial worksite and walked them through the right safety practices and staff behaviors to be implemented. As a result, the client was able to lower their exposure to contaminants to an extent where employees no longer needed respiratory protection equipment.

A Culture Steeped in Excellence

With years of field experience, industry expertise, certifications, and licenses, Cardinal’s highly qualified consultants, multi-disciplinary engineers, and safety professionals go the extra mile to deliver value-added services to clients. The thoughtful leadership of Barcum and his wife, Heidi Barcum, has enabled the family-owned company to emerge as a well-rounded service provider in the industry with an employee-centric work culture that translates to superior customer service.

“If we have employees that are happy and well taken care of, it is reflected in the way they serve and collaborate with clients,” says Barcum.

Cardinal, one of the very few health and safety consulting companies with a global presence. Catering to the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, the company possesses a clear understanding of the regulatory environment in different regions.

For Cardinal, “success” boils down to one key factor–– enabling clients to reduce costly workplace injuries, illnesses, and potential violations, and ensure a good safety record. To achieve this goal, Barcum and his team deliver the highest quality, turnkey health and safety compliance and training services. The company will continue to strengthen the skill sets of its team and add new offerings to its repertoire as it steers ahead in its journey.