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May 2014 3 Latest COS videos Coming up online More videos at www.cos-mag.com/video.html June Young workers Electrical safety Emergency management OHS legal update Canada's Safest Employers 2014 Does your company go above and beyond in supporting the health and safety of employees? Nominate it now for a safety excellence award. Additional awards to be handed out for wellness and psychological safety. Nominations close June 2. www.safestemployers.com 2014 Safety Leader of the Year We're looking for the best champion of safety for this annual award. Nominate a deserving safety leader now. 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AMANDA SILLIKER FROM THE EDITOR cos-mag.com visit us online Does your company go above and On the ground level It was very surreal. While sitting in an airplane at the Vancouver International Airport, I was looking out the window at the airside safety offi cers in yellow vests, employees driving the big yellow YVR "Airside Safety" vehicles, and a maintenance worker fi xing a runway light — and on my lap was this month's cover story about those very hard-working employees at the Vancouver airport. I also witnessed a variety of topics discussed in the article, including the massive construction project taking place at the airport and the airside workers wearing protective earmuffs to limit their noise exposure. (Read the story on page 12). I was fl ying to Vancouver for the Western Conference on Safety where I actually ran into one of our cover stars, Dan Strand, manager of health and safety at the Vancouver Airport Authority, and got to chat with him and members of his team. That is one of my favourite parts of this job — going out to these conferences, meeting safety professionals and fi nding out what matters most to you. Thomson Reuters often has a booth at these conferences that I help man when I am not checking out a session or conducting the Canada's Safest Employers leadership panel, so make sure to stop by the booth and say hi. I always want to hear your stories and what topics are top of mind for you because that helps me shape the content of the magazine and make sure COS is helping you be the best OHS professional you can be. At the conference, I met an amazing man, Terry Duncan. He has been working as a health and safety consultant for 40 years, and the stories he tells send shivers down your spine. He has inspected countless sites where workers have been chopped in half by dangerous machinery or fatally collapsed after inhaling toxic gas. I have no idea how he does it. But one thing is for sure, his stories give me ideas for topics we have to cover to make sure the heart-wrenching scenarios he has seen do not happen again. As Duncan said, "We're in this business together. We're just on different ends of it." His stories defi nitely inspire me to produce a magazine that helps you try to prevent these accidents from happening, and I know stories like his are the reason you all do what you do. I am also starting to pay more attention to your titles when I meet you at con- ferences. It seems like "environment" is becoming more and more connected to occupational health and safety. Many of you have titles that use HSE, OHS&E or EHS. (See the article on page 20 for more). Are the days of just OHS coming to a close? Are strictly-OHS professionals found only out West in the oilsands and among huge companies with a lot of oversight? Throughout the pages of this magazine, we frequently reference OHS professionals, but maybe we ought to be changing our common vernacular to HSE professionals? What do you think? Visit this discussion in our Canadian Occupational Safety LinkedIn group and share your thoughts. Amanda Silliker, Editor amanda.silliker@thomsonreuters.com As Duncan said, "We're in this business together. We're just on different ends of it." His stories defi nitely inspire me to produce a magazine that helps you try to prevent these accidents from happening, and I know stories like his are the reason I am also starting to pay more attention to your titles when I meet you at con- ferences. It seems like "environment" is becoming more and more connected to