Now is a great time to remind your fitters, plumbers, service technicians, and their supervisors about heat illnesses and how to prevent them.  The heat illnesses we’re most concerned about include heat stroke, heat exhaustion, heat syncope, and heat cramps.

HEAT STROKE: The body loses its ability to sweat and can’t control its temperature. Heat stroke is a medical emergency.

HEAT EXHAUSTION: The body sweats away too much water and salt.

HEAT SYNCOPE: The body’s blood pressure becomes too low resulting in dizziness or fainting.

HEAT CRAMPS: The body experiences painful muscle spasms.

To help prevent heat illnesses:

• Provide training for all affected workers on heat illnesses and prevention methods.
• On extremely hot days, reduce the physical demands on your workers as much as possible.
• Work tasks that are particularly physically demanding should be performed early in the morning or later in the afternoon avoiding the hottest part of the day.
• Provide a constant supply of cold water.
• Encourage your workers to drink at least a full cup of cold water every 15 to 20 minutes throughout each day.
• Encourage your workers to avoid drinking alcohol, caffeine, and high sugar content drinks during periods of extremely hot temperatures.
• Allow frequent rest periods in cool shaded areas.
• Encourage your workers to wear light-weight, light-colored, loose-fitting clothing made of breathable fabrics that are also designed to filter out harmful UV rays.
• Keep a close watch on workers who are at higher risk for heat illnesses. For example, workers required to wear hot personal protective equipment, such as arc flash gear, welding gear, respirators, etc., and overweight workers may be at higher risk.

MCAA/MSCA’s Women in the Mechanical Industry Initiative has a new home on the MCAA website! If you’re a woman executive or employee of an MCAA/MSCA member company, this page will keep you up to date on our efforts to enable women in the mechanical industry to further enrich their careers through networking, educational, mentoring and career development opportunities beyond those already offered through membership in MCAA and MSCA.

EOS is a comprehensive business system with real, simple, practical tools that helps business leaders clarify, simplify and achieve their vision.   During this bonus optional session,  “Are You Running Your Business or is it Running You?,” attendees will learn how to see their business in a whole new light and to achieve better results through strengthening the Six Key Components™ of a great organization (Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process and Traction).  The outcome creates alignment and synchronizes all the pieces of your business to produce the results you want.  This special session will take place on Sunday, October 21 from 7:30 a.m. – noon prior to the start of the MSCA conference.  Cost is $300 and includes all program materials and copy of the book “What the Heck is EOS,” co-authored by program presenter Tom Bouwer.

Register by July 21, 2018 and you will enjoy Early Bird member savings!

Steve Thomas, one of MSCA’s most highly rated speakers, will explore that one common thing effective leaders and cultures have that enables them to accomplish great things, in and through people. You will be challenged to rethink the steps it takes to create a culture in which people can come to work and be the best version of themselves and experience full engagement. Warning: it’s not normal!

During The Scooch Project, Steve will navigate the riddle of disengagement and empty! Why is it that two leaders can do the exact same thing and get two completely different results? Why can two companies be the same in so many areas and yet one is fun to work for and the other drives people insane? According to researchers, 70% of our workforce is disengaged. Why? In this session, Steve will explore that one common thing effective leaders and cultures have that enables them to accomplish great things, in and through people. You will be challenged to rethink the steps it takes to create a culture in which people can come to work and be the best version of themselves and experience full engagement. Warning: it’s not normal!

If you have not previously participated in a program taught by Steve Thomas, you have certainly been missing out! Join us for MSCA18 to hear him speak.

Register by July 21, 2018 and you will enjoy Early Bird member savings!

At this year’s MSCA18 education conference in Huntington Beach, CA, experts Sunny Sandhu and Keith La Rose from CopperTree Analytics will explore how equipping your mechanical service offering with advanced building analytics software technology can add additional revenue streams to your business.  These additional revenue streams include pull through service work uncovered by advanced analytics, as well as getting more out of your service technicians by using advanced analytics to perform data and performance driven maintenance versus the traditional time based maintenance.  This technology can also allow you to stand apart from your competition and provide an innovative solution by offering automated fault detection and diagnostics and energy baselining and benchmarking.  Real-world case study examples will be showcased, highlighting project results and return on investment.

Register early for MSCA18 to ensure your participation at this year’s conference scheduled for October 21 – 24 at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and Spa.