Aldo Zambetti steps into new role as SMOHIT administrator
It was only last year Aldo Zambetti joined the Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) as its program director, and as of Jan. 1, he moved into the role…
Health and safety
SMOHIT Safety Champions Conference goes virtual for second year
For the second year, out of an abundance of caution, the sixth annual Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) Safety Champions Conference was held virtually April 14 and 15…
Sheet Metal Workers Local 33 delivers suicide prevention training
Everyone has been touched by suicide in some way — whether it’s news of a celebrity who seemingly had experienced no outward problems or a close friend who was struggling…
Dale Clark joins ITI as OSHA specialist
Second-generation union sheet metal worker Dale Clark began work on Jan. 1 as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) specialist, a new position created to oversee health and safety…
Apprentice owes life to CPR, instructors at Local 20
When first-year apprentice John Walker returned to Sheet Metal Workers Local 20’s Indianapolis training center after lunch in January, he didn’t feel well — his legs were shaking, he was…
SMOHIT provides AEDs, bleed kits to locals across the country
Defibrillators and tourniquets save lives. Years ago, it was unheard of to have a defibrillator in a workplace or other public space. Tourniquets fell out of favor for use in…
Wolf Metals collaborates with Battelle to create units to sanitize PPE
On a Thursday morning in March, when much of the country was being told to shelter in place due to the effects of COVID-19, Mike Wolf, plant manager for the…
SMOHIT ships cloth masks, sanitizer to all SMART locals
In one of the organization’s largest procurement and distribution efforts ever, Sheet Metal Occupational Health Institute Trust (SMOHIT) shipped cloth masks in June to all International Association of Sheet Metal,…
When COVID-19 hit, training at Local 105 got creative
Across the country, schools of all types are trying to figure out how to operate while keeping employees and students safe from COVID-19. Training centers — each with their own…
Steps Challenge gets members out into the world
The Fall 2019 SMOHIT Steps Challenge was a success with members walking a total of 74,873,900 steps, more than 9 million more than it takes to walk around the world.…