Our June 21, 2024 meeting will be at AGC facility 5000 Grantswood Road Irondale, AL. Mr. Danny Smith will be our presenter and his topic will be It’s Not Rocket Surgery, It’s Brain Science: Understanding the Complexities of Safety. The meeting will start at the usual 11:30 am time. If you want any information on this meeting email me at tteneyck@ua.edu or our Secretary Mr. Vincent Scott at vincent.scott@kratosdefense.com.
We will not have a July 2024 meeting at AGC. We will combine our meeting with the Northeast Section for their July meeting. Mr. Charley Bishop is the NE Section Chairman. We will help Charley with his first meeting by attending as a chapter. So please try to attend his first meeting which will be at the Honda Facility in Lincoln, AL. There will be a Honda tour after them meeting which should be interesting. More information on this July meeting will be forth coming.
The 2024 Governor’s Safety and Health Conference is fast approaching. Registration is open and many have already registered. The cutoff in the past was 400 attendees and last year registration closed on July 28, 2024. The conference will be held at the Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, AL from Monday August 26 through Wednesday August 28, 2024. One of the guest speakers will be Mr. James Spann, the Weather Authority, for Birmingham’s television station ABC 33/40. He does a really great presentation on weather including some tornadic events he has covered over the years. Bruce S. Wilkinson is the other key note speaker. Mr. Wilkinson is a leadership, communication and culture implementation strategist as well as a professional motivational keynote speaker and trainer. He is the chief executive officer and chief culture officer of Workplace Consultants, Inc. and Wilkinson Seminars and Presentations. There will be two pre-conference classes. Friday August 23 the class is OSHA 7005 Public Warehousing and Storage, a full day class. Saturday August 24 will be a half day class, OSHA 7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar. For more information see the University of Alabama Conference Registration website at https://calendar.ua.edu/department/college_of_continuing_studies.
This fall Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), UA Safety State and Alabama Chapter ASSP will have a half day seminar/PDC on Silica. We hope to cover the OSHA regulations, engineering controls with equipment demonstrations, health effects during this seminar. Continuing education credit will be issued for this event. The final location is TBD. Checkout our monthly newsletter for updates on this seminar/PDC as we finalize this event.
Be careful and safe out there in your daily travels and work activities.
Thomas Ten Eyck, CSP
Chapter President