POWER OF ATTORNEY

To Sign and File Reports under Section 16a
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
under Rule 144 or any other Filings Required
including Form ID and Schedule 13D
Under the Federal Securities Laws
With Respect to Securities of MSA Safety Incorporated

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that the undersigned
hereby constitutes and appoints Richard W Roda
Lee B McChesney and Jeffrey G Aromatorio and each of
them as the undersigneds true and lawful attorneysinfact
and agents with full power of substitution for the
undersigned and in the undersigneds name place and
stead to sign any and all reports of the undersigned
under Section 16a of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934 under Rule 144 or any other filings required
including Form ID and Schedule 13D under the Federal
Securities Laws with respect to securities of MSA and
to file the same with the Securities and Exchange
Commission granting unto said attorneysinfact and
agents and each of them full power and authority to
do and perform each and every act and thing requisite
and necessary to be done as fully to all intents and
purposes as the undersigned might or could do in person
hereby ratifying and confirming all that said
attorneysinfact and agents or any of them or his her or
their substitute or substitutes may lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue hereof The undersigned acknowledges
that the foregoing attorneysinfact in serving in such
capacity at the request of the undersigned are not
assuming any of the undersigneds responsibilities to
comply with the Federal Securities Laws

This Power of Attorney shall remain in effect unless
and until notice of its revocation shall have been filed
by the undersigned with the Securities and Exchange
Commission

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the undersigned has executed and
delivered this Power of Attorney the date set forth
below

Date May 29 2024

SIGNATURE

PRINT NAME David J Howells