If your workers work outdoors or in unheated indoor spaces, you’ll need to equip them—physically and mentally—to handle the hazards of cold weather. As a safety coordinator, you know well that frostbite and hypothermia (which, for simplicity’s sake, we’ll refer to collectively as “cold stress”) represent a serious threat that is not to be trifled with. They can paralyze, amputate and kill. But your workers might not get the message until it’s too late. Are you doing enough to protect your workers against the risks of cold-stress? If one of your workers should suffer a serious or fatal cold-stress injury, could you and […]