2016 marks the 50th anniversary of ISHN — Industrial Safety & Hygiene News. In each issue we’ll devote a 50th anniversary column, “Time Machine.” We’ll talk about how the language, tactics and strategies of safety have changed, and the ways in which they have not. Some challenges confronting programs five decades back are still headaches, and of course new ones have surfaced. The job of safety and health professionals has evolved and expanded; at the same time numerous responsibilities essentially remain the same.
We’re not just going to be looking in the rearview mirror as we mark a half century of publishing ISHN. This milestone is an opportunity to explore scenarios in safety and health that will – or might – unfold in the next 50 years. It might seem like dabbling in science fiction, but time flies. 1967, when what was then Safety Product News first rolled off the presses, still reverberates in the culture. Check out DVDs and vinyl albums on Amazon or at Barnes & Noble.