Warm weather is also fast approaching which means that heat stress illnesses could become an issue. OSHA has made it a priory to make heat stress part of their warm weather inspections. If you would like to participate in Heat Stress Trainer then the Alabama Chapter of ASSP along with the University of Alabama and Safe State will be conducting a half day Professional Development Conference for a Heat Stress Trainer Class through a Harwood Grant. This will be a free PDC event and will occur at the AGC facility 5000 Grantswood Road Irondale, AL. The class will start at 8 AM and end by noon on May 17, 2024. Breakfast will be provided. This class will take the place of our normal monthly meeting and will be limited to the first 40 who sign up. Signup information will be provided in announcements shortly. If you want any information on this PDC event email me at tteneyck@ua.edu or our Secretary Mr. Vincent Scott at secretary@alambama.assp.org.
The 2024 ASSP Region IV conference will be held at the Wyndham Hotel Lake Buena Vista, Florida on May 1 and 2. Registration for this event was still open and the early bird registration fee was still in available. For registration details visit www.RegionFourPdc.com. This conference offers CEUs for attending. The website also has the hotel registration information for this event.
The Region IV ROC meeting will be the day before this conference. I will be attending and will share any valuable information I get from this meeting. Other Chapter Presidents will be in attendance so a chance to discuss issues or ideas that can be brought back to our Chapter.
The 2024 Governor’s Safety and Health Conference is fast approaching. Registration is now open and many have already registered. The cutoff in the past was 400 attendees and last year registration closed on July 28, 2024. When they say 400 attendees, they mean it and I think the close date when 400 is reached this year will be earlier and may be as early as late June. If you are thinking of attending this event do not wait until the last minute. The conference will be held 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. For more information see the University of Alabama Conference Registration website at https://calendar.ua.edu/department/college_of_continuing_studies.
BCSP is now requiring Ethics credits when you recertify your CSP. ASP holders may also have an Ethics requirement. If the Alabama Chapter conducts a half day fall PDC on Ethics is there interest from our CSP and ASP holders in attending this PDC? Send an email that you are interested to either MR. Vincent Scott at vincent.scott@kratosdefence.com or myself at tteneyck@ua.edu and we will see what we can setup for an Ethics PDC. There may be a cost associated with this training but we will try to keep it at a minimum cost.
Be careful and safe out there in your daily travels and work activities.
Thomas Ten Eyck, CSP
Chapter President