The University of Alabama Safe State Occupational Safety and Health Consultation Program has partnered with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Brasfield & Gorrie construction company to ensure the safe and hazard-free construction of the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Biomedical Research and Psychology building project.
The collaboration aims to create a working relationship between the partners that prevents work-related fatalities and injuries, controls or eliminates serious workplace hazards, and establishes a foundation for the development of an effective safety and health program in the workplace.
“Our goal is to help employees return home safely at the end of the workday, which is essentially the mission of UA Safe State,” said Matt Hollub, director of the Safe State OSHA Consultation Program. “We accomplish this by providing grant-supported health and safety consultation and training free of charge to small employers in high-hazard workplaces. UA Safe State has been proudly providing those services throughout Alabama for the past 45 years.”
UA Safe State’s role in the partnership will involve performing audits, serving as a resource for safety and health training, providing industrial hygiene monitoring and contributing through consultative services to participants throughout the life of the project.
“Collaborating with Brasfield & Gorrie via the OSHA partnerships certainly expands our outreach and impact within the construction trades,” Hollub said. “Through our on-site partnership surveys and interactions with multiple contractors, we can help educate workers on hazard recognition, teach best practices in safety and health, and get any observed hazards promptly corrected.”
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