Your Partner in SAFETY SUPPORT & MANAGEMENT
ABOUT US
BruinCreek Solutions is a health, safety, and environmental (HSE) consulting company that provides experienced professional consultants with years of extensive, hands-on program involvement across a variety of industries including oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, and healthcare. Our mission is to partner with companies to equip and provide support in protecting people, property, and the environment. Our HSE professionals achieve this mission by sharing their knowledge and expertise to assist your company in proactive, cost-effective, and integrated solutions to remain regulatory compliant, mitigate business risk and to aid in the prevention of workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities.
David L. Renz,
PhD, MBA, CSP
President,
BruinCreek Solutions, LLC
Risk assessments may be done at different levels of detail depending on their purpose. BruinCreek Solutions can provide Job Safety Analysis (JSA) support in the field, pre-start up HSE assessments, design reviews, implementation of Management of Change (MOC) processes and emergency response evaluations.
Photo: Explosion and fire at a company in Houston, PA
SERVICES
Business operations are unique; safety and health services must be tailored to fit your business operations. With 30 years of health, safety, and environmental (HSE) experience, our core strength is to develop solutions for breakthrough safety performance. BruinCreek can provide comprehensive safety support or partner with you to create a tailored plan to fit your specific needs. BruinCreek provides solutions to help your business meet compliance requirements and HSE goals. Following is a general list of safety services that BruinCreek provides:
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On-site safety support and oversight
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Written program and policy development
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Safety culture & climate assessments
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HSE training
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Safety administrative support
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HSE inspections
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Incident investigations
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Contractor HSE assessments
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OSHA compliance
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Specialized safety processes & solutions
BruinCreek Solutions can be used for on-site safety support to assist with overall site management and mitigation of risk.
INDUSTRIES SERVED
We keep our industry knowledge current through our networking relationships, memberships in industry-focused organizations, attending industry-sponsored events, and subscriptions to industry publications. We take the time to understand business and safety challenges unique to each sector and stay up-to-date with industry developments and issues. BruinCreek Solutions generally serves businesses in the following sectors:
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Oil & Gas
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Petrochemical
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Chemical
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Transportation
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Manufacturing
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Healthcare
If your sector isn’t mentioned, please reach out to us anyway! Many safety services and concepts can be adapted and applied across multiple businesses and industries. We aren’t going to take on work that we can't do in accordance with our high standards. If BruinCreek can’t assist you, we will refer you to someone in our vast HSE professional network who can.
To learn more about how we can help your business in achieving its safety goals, contact us.
BruinCreek can provide environmental services including training, site assessments, audits, DOT, hazardous waste, RCRA services and E&S inspections.
Photo: Abandoned gas well with environmental concerns which was identified and plugged.
OUR CREDENTIALS
David L. Renz, PhD, MBA, CSP
President, BruinCreek Solutions, LLC
David is a Certified Safety Professional and a proven Environmental Health and Safety Manager with more than 30-years of industry experience. He has worked for Fortune 100 and private companies including Mobil Chemical, Honeywell International, Armstrong World Industries, Noble Energy, and EdgeMarc Energy.
David has an undergraduate degree in Safety Sciences from Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP, ’92) and a master’s degree in business administration from Northern Illinois University (NIU, ’01). He completed his PhD in Safety Sciences at IUP (’23) with his doctoral dissertation work titled “Workers’ Perception of Leader Intelligence, Safety Climate and Safety Participation in the Oil & Gas Extraction Industry”.
In addition to serving the clients of BruinCreek Solutions, he is teaching upper-level safety management at Slippery Rock University as an assistant professor.
Consult David's LinkedIn profile for a complete listing of his education, work experience, and accomplishments.
OUR TEAM
BruinCreek Solutions routinely employs and/or contractually partners with qualified, experienced individual HSE professionals from the vast network of contacts David has personally worked with and come to respect over the years.
David is married to his wife of 25-years, Michele, and they have two children, Luke and Leah, and a dog, Lacy. David enjoys archery hunting, golfing, biking, fantasy football, and spending time outdoors with family. He is a life-long fan of all Pittsburgh sports teams.
Michele Renz is the Chief Financial Officer of BruinCreek Solutions. Michele has spent her 30-year career working in industry and public accounting including the “big four” accounting firm, PwC, Honeywell International, and is a partner in J. Martin & Associates. In addition to her responsibilities at BruinCreek, she volunteers her accounting and business skills to numerous non-profit organizations. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
In addition to spending time with David and their family, she enjoys golfing, hiking, and biking.
Michele can be reached via phone 724-650-6239 and email at bruincreek@gmail.com. Connect with Michele on Linkedin.
BruinCreek Solutions can provide site consultants and support for pad construction, drilling, completions, flowback and production operations.
CONTACT US
New industry is developing all over the Pennsylvania tri-state area, including the new Shell cracker plant in Beaver County (pictured above).
BruinCreek recognizes the importance of mitigating business risk, but most importantly protecting employees and the environment across the nation and close to home. Our headquarters are also in Beaver, Pennsylvania (approximately 20 miles north of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area). We serve customers within the tri-state (Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia) region and nationwide.