Three years after becoming the first TCIA accredited company in Colorado, Robert Brudenell, owner and president of The Natural Way Inc. in Englewood, not only attributes cost savings to the program, but says it is the reason he has more than doubled his annual revenue in that relatively short time. The Natural Way, only the thjrd company to achieve TCIA Accreditation nationwide when it came on board in July 2004, started saving money right out of the gate. Just months after becoming accredited, Brudenell received a call from one of his crews telling him that OSHA was on site. Apparently, they were working a block away from an OSHA office and OSHA inspectors were under a mandate that if they drove by a tree care operation, they were required to stopand inspect it. On their way back from lunch, a group of inspectors did just that. Confident that Accreditation had prepared them for just this situation, Brudenell told the crew leader to just give the inspectors everything they asked for.
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