Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Pre-Conference Workshops

The 2024 Alabama Governor’s Safety and Health Conference will offer pre-conference workshops on August 23 and 24, 2024.

OSHA 7005 Public Warehousing and Storage

This course covers the hazards and injuries likely to occur in public warehousing and storage operations, including encounters with powered industrial trucks, material handling, lifting and ergonomics, hazard communication, walking and working surfaces, and life safety including fire protection and evacuation. This course is intended for warehouse workers, supervisors, and employers responsible for developing safe work practices and procedures in a warehouse setting. Upon course completion students will have the ability to recognize the potential for injuries from forklifts, material handling and lifting, exposure to hazardous substances, slips, trips, and falls and methods to control and abate these hazards.

For questions, contact uaosha@ua.edu or phone toll-free at 877-508-7246.

Cost $225

Location: Perdido Beach Resort

Date: Friday, August 23, 2024 8:00 am – 4:00 pm (lunch provided)

OSHA 7845 Recordkeeping Rule Seminar

This course covers OSHA requirements for maintaining and posting records of occupational injuries and illnesses, and reporting specific cases to OSHA. Upon course completion students will have the ability to identify OSHA requirements for recordkeeping, posting and reporting and to complete OSHA Form 300 Log of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, OSHA Form 300A Summary of Work-Related Injuries and Illnesses, and OSHA Form 301 Injury and Illness Incident Report.

For questions, contact uaosha@ua.edu or phone toll-free at 877-508-7246.

Cost: $175

Location: Perdido Beach Resort

Date: Saturday, August 24, 2024 8:00 am – noon.

Instructor for all Workshops: Scott Herndon

Instructor Bio: Scott Herndon is owner and principal consultant/trainer at Cornerstone Safety L.L.C. Since 1984, Scott has worked to train and provide working conditions that allowed workers to go home at the end of their workday better than when they arrived. Scott has held management positions in industries including valve manufacturing, steel, petroleum refining, textiles, and brick making, as well as serving as an instructor at the OSHA Training Institute Education Center at the University of Alabama. He led the process that resulted to having the first facility in the brick industry participate in the OSHA Voluntary Protection Program at the Star level.

Scott volunteers as a Firefighter/EMT/Trainer at Carroll’s Creek Fire Department in northern Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. He and Kay, his wife of 43 years, began Operation Backpack several years ago to provide backpacks and school supplies to elementary school students in the aftermath of hurricanes, tornados, and flooding events. To date, over 1,200 students have benefited from these efforts.