About Us

a New Old Fashion Experience

Tired of the focus being on sales and not service, Joey Barnes and Robb Roesch left a multinational safety company to start United Consultants, LLC. With over 40 years of combined experience, Joey and Robb set out to build a new kind of company with a new kind of experience built on old fashioned values. We focus on quality in both our products and service. Raised on the farm, Joey and Robb grew up schooled in the midwest work ethic. Since then we've learned that attributes such as honesty and respect are universally revered. United Consultants offers safety & environmental consulting to a wide range of customers including: agri-businesses, equipment dealers, food processors, petroleum marketers, transportation, biofuel producers, manufacturers, utilities and more. In 2022, Safety With Help, LLC merged with United Consultants, LLC. Safety With Help, started by Mike Wollner out of Mason City, IA, helps agribusinesses with safety, environmental and transportation related issues through his copyrighted policies and procedures and on-site assistance.
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Core Tenets

We operate on three principles:
  • Provide a quality product,
  • Backed by exceptional service, and
  • Keep it simple.
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Joey Barnes Co-owner United Consultants, LLC
Joey lives in Powhattan, KS where he enjoys farming, spending time with his family and restoring old Ford trucks. Joey graduated from Kansas State University in 1984 with a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering. He then began a ten (10) year career with Koch Industries, Inc. of Wichita, KS. Joey was involved in the design, construction and operation of crude oil, refined products, gas liquids and anhydrous ammonia pipelines and terminals in the United States and Canada. In 1994 Joey returned to production agriculture on his family’s farm outside Hiawatha, Kansas. He continued to consult and ran a private engineering business until joining the staff of Regulatory Consultants, Inc. (RCI) in 2000. In 2002, Joey was tasked with starting an environmental department at RCI. As Manager of Environmental Services, Joey developed and marketed SPCC plans, RMP Programs, air & storm water permitting services, TRI and Tier II reporting, and ag-chem secondary containment design. In 2022, unhappy with the direction of the company, Joey left to start United Consultants, LLC (UC) with Robb Roesch (also of RCI). UC offers a comprehensive range of EH&S services including OSHA safety programs, EPA risk management programs, spill plans and more. Joey has extensive experience in RMP and PSM programs; SPCC Plans; OSHA safety programs; DOT rules; DHS CFATS top-screen survey, SVA and SSP; designing of secondary containment for bulk agrichemicals; NPDES stormwater permitting & SWPPP's; air permitting; hazardous waste rules, EPCRA TRI and Tier II reporting; AST codes for flammable and combustible liquids (NFPA 30, NFPA 30A, STI SP001); pesticide producing establishment registration & repackaging reporting; and anhydrous ammonia code CGA G-2.1.
Joey is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in Kansas, Missouri, and Wyoming.
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Robb Roesch Co-owner United Consultants, LLC
Robb Roesch lives in Atchison, KS where he enjoys farming and spending time with his family.
Robb graduated from Kansas State University in 1994 with a B.S. degree in Feed Science & Management. After graduation, Robb pursued a career in feed mill and trace mineral plant management working as a plant manager for feed mills in Texas and Iowa. In 1996, Robb returned to production agriculture on the family farm near Reserve, KS. In 2002, Robb joined the USDA – Farm Service Agency as a field agent and later a Loss Adjuster. In 2004, Robb joined the staff of Regulatory Consultants, Inc. (RCI) where he was tasked with managing the SPCC program. In 2014, working with an Iowa feed mill, Robb wrote a food safety program to comply with FSMA (Food Safety Modernization Act). In 2022, unhappy with the direction of the company, Robb left RCI to start United Consultants, LLC (UC) with Joey Barnes (also of RCI). United Consultants offers a comprehensive range of EH&S services including OSHA safety programs, EPA risk management programs, spill plans and more.
Robb has written hundreds of SPCC plans for various types of businesses. Robb will spearhead the SPCC program at UC including writing plans, researching rules and interpretations, and consulting with clients. Robb also has extensive knowledge of environmental issues affecting implement dealers on such issues such as wash bays, used oil, used antifreeze, lead/acid batteries, aerosol cans, used oil filters, used tires, shop rags, fluorescent lights, combustible & flammable liquid storage and more.
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Mike Wollner Owner Safety with Help, LLC (a subsidiary of United Consultants, LLC)
Mike Wollner resides in Mason City Iowa where he enjoys spending time with his wife, children and grandchildren. He also enjoys woodworking, electrical repair, gardening and volunteer work when he's not working. Mike has worked in the ag industry since 1967 first managing grain elevators then fertilizer plants. In 1988 Mike changed career paths taking a job with Regulatory Consultants, Inc. (RCI) as a field rep consulting agribusiness clients. Mike worked for RCI until 1997 when he joined United Suppliers. Mike helped develop safety and environmental compliance programs for use internally and externally to help United Supplier customers. In 2017, Mike started his own consulting business, Safety with Help, LLC and he continued to serve agribusiness clients. In 2022, Mike merged Safety with Help, LLC with United Consultants, LLC, a safety consulting company also started by ex-RCI employees.
Over the years Mike has assisted hundreds of clients with OSHA safety programs, EPA Risk Management (RMP) programs, employee training, DOT site security plans, DHS top-screen surveys and more. The breadth and depth of Mike’s knowledge in the ag and safety industries has made him sought out by law firms and insurance companies as a professional witness. Mike also serves on the second committee tasked with updating the Compressed Gas Association’s (CGA) industry standard on anhydrous ammonia ANSI/CGA G-2.1 Requirements for the Storage and Handling of Anhydrous Ammonia.
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United Consultants, LLC may be a new company, but our principals have over 75 years of combined experience in Environmental, Health & Safety consulting.
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