Just about everyone who reads this column is aware that Heat Treating Progress produces a monthly electronic newsletter called Heat Treating Progress. One of the features of our electronic product is an interactive one, in which we survey our readership on issues relating to their workplace, their jobs, or their industry. In our April 12 eNews, we polled our heat treating readership about which operational or managerial problems were of most concern to them, Survey participants were offered choices from which to select: 49 percent chose rising energy costs; 22 percent rising employee health insurance costs; 20 percent competition from foreign markets; 8 percent other; and 1 percent EPA/OSHA regulations Also part of this survey was a write-in component in which readers could elaborate on any issue The response was varied and copious, so the rest of this column is devoted to what you had to say. In some cases, the responses have been edited for syntax or length.
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