Summer is here and it has been a hot late June and looks like it will continue through early July if not the entire summer. It will be important to stay hydrated and take breaks until you get acclimated to what is turning out to be a very hot summer.
The Alabama Chapter will not be conducting a regular meeting in July. Instead, we are combining our meeting with the restarted Alabama Northeast Section of ASSP. Mr. Charley Bishop has volunteered as the Section Chairman and setup their first meeting for Friday July 19, 2024. The meeting will be at the Honda Manufacturing facility in Lincoln, Alabama. Honda will be hosting a tour of their facility along with providing lunch for the Section. I hope our Chapter members will support this Section event by attending this meeting and enjoying the tour of the facility. Registration will be through the Chapter so look for the meeting invite and below in this newsletter. An additional reminder will also be sent out prior to the meeting but time will be needed to plan so register by Friday the 12th. Meeting information will be provided in the invite.
The 2023-2024 COMT was completed and sent into ASSP National. We achieved our Gold Status as a Chapter again. Thanks to all the Executive Committee and Section Leaders for making this possible through Chapter and Section meetings, the heat stress PDC event, and our recognition luncheon. Thanks for all your hard work as leaders for our Chapter and Sections.
We look forward to providing additional professional development and recognition events in 2024-2025. We look to continue to participate in combined meetings with the Jacksonville State University Student Section as well as setting up a meeting with the Auburn University Student Section this next year.
We are also looking for members who want to get more involved in the Chapter by volunteering as a Program or Governmental Affairs Chair. We would appreciate all those who would like to serve one of these Chairs. As Program Chair you will assist us with finding informative presentations for not only the Chapter but Section meetings. With Zoom and Team technology we can get knowledgeable presenters from all over the country to present to our members. While at a conference that you attend talk to the presenters to see if they would be willing to do a 30 to 45 minute presentation for us.
The 2024 Governor’s Safety and Health Conference is fast approaching. Registration is limited to 400 attendees and there were only a few spaces left for attending. If you are thinking about attending don’t wait too long as attending closed on July 28 last year and appears to be closing probably by early July of this year. The conference will be held from Monday August 26 through Wednesday August 28, 2024. Mr. James Spann, the Weather Authority, for Birmingham’s television station ABC 33/40 is the Monday morning opening session speaker. Mr. Bruce S. Wilkinson will close out the conference with a motivational presentation. There will be two pre-conference classes. Friday August 23 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.
The ASSP Safety 2024 conference will be held in Denver, Colorado from August 7-9, 2024. There as both pre- and post-conference courses to attain continuing education credits for your re-certification(s). Next year the conference is scheduled to be in Orlando, Florida probably in the usual month of June.
Alabama Chapter of ASSP, Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), and UA Safety State will have a half day seminar/PDC on Silica. We hope to cover the OSHA regulations, engineering controls with equipment demonstrations, and health effects during this seminar. Continuing education credit will be issued for this event. The final location and seminar/PDC schedule is still TBD. Checkout our monthly newsletter for updates as we finalize this event.
Be careful and safe out there in your daily travels, work activities, and summer vacation. Thomas Ten Eyck, CSP
Chapter President