b'messenger MIDWEST INSULATION CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION 7250 POE AVE., SUITE 410 - DAYTON, OH 45414 - micainsulation.org VOLUME 58NO.5 MAY 2024 WHATS INSIDE THIS MONTH:matters, unanimously recommended OSHA move forward expeditiously on the Notice of Proposed New Changes to Heat Illness SafetyRulemaking. As part of the rulemaking process, the Presidents Messageagency will seek and consider input from a wide range MICALeadershipof stakeholders and the public at-large as it works to Ineffective Leadership Poses Significant Riskpropose and finalize its rule. Insider Security ThreatsIn the interim, OSHA continues to direct significant How Can Technology Help Improve Safety inexisting outreach and enforcement resources to educate Construction?employers and workers and hold businesses 5 Leadership Lessons for Contractors accountable for violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act\'s general duty clause, 29 U.S.C.From Ted Lasso654(a)(1) and other applicable regulations. Record-Manufacturers Used 4.1 Billion Pounds of Recycledbreaking temperatures across the nation have increased Materialsthe risks people face on-the-job, especially in summer Save the Datesmonths. Every year, dozens of workers die and From Good to Great: How to Keep Talent andthousands more suffer illnesses related to hazardous Elevate Team Performanceheat exposure that, sadly, are most often preventable.Annual Conference Information"Workers at risk of heat illness need a new rule to protect workers from heat hazards. OSHA is working aggressively to develop a new regulation that keeps Department of Labor takes critical step in heatworkers safe from the dangers of heat," explained safety rulemaking, continues heightenedAssistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health enforcement efforts, focuses on dangers toDoug Parker. "As we move through the required agricultural workers regulatory process for creating these protections, OSHA will use all of its existing tools to hold The Department of Labor has taken an importantemployers responsible when they fail to protect step in addressing the dangers of workplace heatworkers from known hazards such as heat, including and moved closer to publishing a proposed rule toour authority to stop employers from exposing workers reducing the significant health risks of heatto conditions which pose an imminent danger."exposure for U.S. workers in outdoor and indoor settings. On April 24, 2024, the department\'s Occupational Safety and Health Administration presented the draft rule\'s initial regulatory framework at a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health. The committee, which advises the agency on safety and health standards and policy (continued to page 12) 1'