2022 December

December’s issue features stories on cold weather PPE, choosing the right hard hat for the job, winter weather preparation and considerations, and much more.

Cover Feature

Let’s look at cold weather PPE from the human body’s perspective

Cindy Pauley

December 13, 2022

Let’s make cold weather PPE interesting and, as newly promoted safety detectives, look at this from the body’s perspective.

How to safely and efficiently deal with slippery roadways when snow poses hefty risks

Fin Livingston

December 21, 2022

There is a way to remove snow quickly, safely, and efficiently from trailers with automated machines to help keep fleets clean and running on time.

Winter is here. Are you ready?

Follow these tips to prevent cold stress and winter-related injuries

Rick Pedley

December 20, 2022

Employers are responsible for protecting their workers from cold stress and other winter injuries. Learn how to keep workers safe when working in freezing temperatures.

Don’t let your equipment leave you in the cold

Gas detection can be challenging when the weather turns frigid

Dave Wagner

December 19, 2022

For people who work outside, winter weather can pose a range of risks, including to your portable gas monitor. By following some simple tips, you can worry less about your portable gas monitor’s performance and trust that you can depend on it to prevent exposure to toxic or combustible gases.

How to choose the right type and class of hard hat for the job

Randy DeVaul

December 16, 2022

Head protection is available in two types and three classes of hard hats and bump caps. A properly fitting hard hat is also important.

How suspended platforms can increase efficiency for vertical vessel maintenance

Jeff Mirisola

December 15, 2022

Erecting a scaffolding system is its biggest deterrent and the greatest drain on maintenance productivity. Suspended platforms can increase efficiency.

What can safety professionals learn from psychology?

ASSP The American Society of Safety Professionals

December 14, 2022

How to use psychological and behavioral knowledge to improve workplace safety. As a safety leader, it’s important to recognize moments when people are looking to you as an example and ensure that your behavior aligns with the values you’re working to instill in others.

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Blue collar workers are losing out on the wellbeing boom

Dave Johnson

November 8, 2022

A bias exists that white collar workers — more than their blue collar counterparts — are more prone to burn out, anxiety, depression, stress overload, work-life imbalances, emotionally draining work, and have a strong need for rest, gratitude and recognition. But that's not true.

Leading Safety

Separating safety management from operations isn’t always beneficial

Issues occur within safety oversight

Peter G. Furst

December 13, 2022

When you have a complex supply chain, issues may occur with oversight responsibility for various operations. Fundamentally some of this emanates from the industry’s reaction and response to the promulgation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Editorial Comments

ISHN offers free CEU credits on a variety of workplace safety topics

Benita Mehta

December 13, 2022

A Q & A with ISHN’s CE Center development manager, in which she explains how to earn free CEU credits and what that means for our readers.

Best Practices

Many OHS pros are being kept out of the loop with ADA management

Dan Markiewicz, MS, CIH, CSP, CHMM

December 13, 2022

Now that I have been personally thrust into the ADA-world, I am looking at the regulation with a much keener eye. I have many concerns.

What's black and white and one of the first things an OSHA officer will look for during an inspection? The answer is … your written safety and health plans!

ISHN Magazine

2022 December

Cover

Let’s look at cold weather PPE from the human body’s perspective

Features

How to safely and efficiently deal with slippery roadways when snow poses hefty risks

Winter is here. Are you ready?

Don’t let your equipment leave you in the cold

How to choose the right type and class of hard hat for the job

How suspended platforms can increase efficiency for vertical vessel maintenance

What can safety professionals learn from psychology?

Columns

Blue collar workers are losing out on the wellbeing boom

Separating safety management from operations isn’t always beneficial

ISHN offers free CEU credits on a variety of workplace safety topics

Many OHS pros are being kept out of the loop with ADA management

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