HSI August Newsletter

Your monthly digest of EHS, Compliance, and Professional Development resources & news for you and your business, with something for everyone.

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OSHA Heat Standard Update

OSHA Heat Standard Update

In July 2024, OSHA released the heat injury and illness prevention regulatory proposal (over 400 pages), an important step in the process of creating a federal regulation for all employers. If you have employees who are exposed to temperatures over 80F for more than 15 minutes in a 60-minute period, this regulation will apply to you.

There are already five states with heat regulations not currently covered by OSHA, with California making headlines recently with the first indoor heat illness regulation, so check your state specific regulations.

Here are some key requirements from the new regulations, and how HSI can help:

• Requirement: Develop and implement a work site heat injury and illness prevention plan (HIIPP) with site-specific information to evaluate and control heat hazards in their workplace.
  How HSI can help: Once employers complete their written plan it lives in HSI’s Document Management Module within our EHS System for version control and dissemination.
  You can also host the Plan as a training element in the HSI LMS, allowing you to assign and track compliance across all employees.
• Requirement: Identify heat hazards in both outdoor and indoor work sites. There is a lot more too this, including inspections indoors and out for potential hazardous heat exposure, tracking heat index forcasts, wet bulb globe temp measurement, and more.
  How HSI can help: In the HSI EHS System, utilize Checklists & Inspections, Corrective & Preventative Actions, Hazards, Injuries & Claims, and more.
• Requirement: Provide initial and annual refresher training for supervisors, heat safety coordinators, and employees, as well as supplemental training after changes in exposure to heat hazards, policies and procedures, or the occurrence of a heat injury or illness.
  How HSI can help: HSI provides thousands of training courses, from physical safety to mental health, including a number of Heat Stress courses for all employees and managers.
• Requirement: Have and maintain, for a minimum of six months, written or electronic records of indoor monitoring data.
  How HSI can help: HSI's EHS System allows you to log and store monitoring data for any period of time, and provides reports necessary if OSHA inspectors ask for them.

Don’t forget, even without this new regulation, the agency can still cite employers for heat related illness and injury under the General Duty Clause, protecting your workers from heat stress is a best practice.

Announcements

SafetySkills is now HSI!

More specifically, the SafetySkills website (https://www.safetyskills.com) is now fully integrated into the HSI website.  You can still find the information and resources you need at https://hsi.com/. And for customers who are used to accessing their LMS login from the safetyskills.com website, we’ve built a new login page shortcut just for you: https://hsi.com/find-your-safetyskills-lms.

HSI at Industry Events

If you are attending industry events, be sure to visit HSI. We would love to meet you in person!

• OHS Leaders Summit: September 10th and 11th in Atlanta, join our very own Jill James as she emcees the event and Chris Palazzo speaking on the topic of EHS technology.
• NSC Safety Congress & Expo 2024: If you’re in Orlando September 16th - 18th, stop by booth 1559 or attend one of two sessions featuring HSI's Chief Safety Officer, Jill James. Learn more!
• MINExpo International: The world’s largest mining event is in Las Vegas September 24th - 26th. Stop by booth 12277 to say hello to our MSHA team and grab a Bedford Butte helmet sticker (IYKYK).

Courses

Courses

Multilanguage package, or MLP, is when the same course contains multiple languages, allowing the learner to select how to complete training. This approach is an enhanced experience for the learner and a streamlined and more efficient approach for administrators using both the HSI LMS or their own, improving the assignment and tracking of mandatory training topics like sexual harassment, safety topics, hazard communication, and more. With this month’s release, we’ve added over 100 MLPs (mostly workplace health and safety topics) to the more than 1,000 we have across our course library.

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EHS Systems

EHS Systems

Add Actions to a Calendar

This month we're introducing an optional feature that will allow you to add a system action to your calendar, making it much easier to take actions out into the field with you as needed.

The calendar event includes all key information about the action as well as a link to the action itself, and it can be added to any calendar on your device.

Resources

[eBook] Buying Online Safety Training: 10 Questions to Ask Vendors

This eBook underscores the importance of whole-person safety in addressing the unique challenges and complexities of multiple industries. Learn five practical yet highly impactful steps to reevaluate work environments, effectively bringing human-centered safety to life.

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[Tool] Learning Evaluation Tips - Kirkpatrick Model

Do you evaluate your employee training program? If you do, are you sure you’re doing it in the most effective way? Our infographic provides 12 steps for enhancing your program’s performance and evaluation.

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[Webinar] Building a Winning Safety Culture for Organizations with a Complex Supply Chain

When: Thursday, August 29th at 2 p.m. ET

We’re thrilled that HSI customer BESIX is sharing their journey, and data, of a successful implementation of the EHS system. They will cover how organizations can develop and promote EHS strategies, procure the necessary technology, and the challenges faced in implementing those EHS strategies across vast supply chains.

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Guess the Movie Quote Answer

Thanks for playing along!

Quote: “Maximum effort”

Answer: Deadpool (2016), Character: Deadpool, played by Ryan Reynolds

Bonus: If you said Deadpool 2 (2018) or Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), you would be correct! (same character)