About This Website

This website is hosted by the Department of Occupational Health & Safety at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

Randy Pewitt, Director of Education, Training and General Safety manages the site.

David Gunnells is the website administrator.

Outside links
Any links to non-UAB information are provided as a courtesy, and may be indicated with the external link icon icon.

They are not intended to constitute, nor do they constitute, an endorsement of the linked materials by the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Downloading Files
We have many downloads available on this website. You may need to install software to view them.

Note:
You must have software compatible with at least Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6.0 (PDF 1.5) to view the .pdf files. If you are having difficulties viewing the .pdf files, you are probably using an earlier version. Click on the appropriate link below to download Adobe Reader.

These are the types of downloadable files you may see and some of the viewers you can use to open them:

Icon File Extension Type of Document Free Viewer? Download Viewer
PDF file .pdf Portable Document Format
Yes
Powerpoint document .ppt Microsoft PowerPoint
Yes
PowerPoint Viewer 2007
Word document .doc/docx Microsoft Word
Yes
Excel document .xls Microsoft Excel
Yes
Text format icon .rft Rich Text Format RTF files can be viewed in numerous text editors in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, etc.
ZIP file .zip ZIP file format A ZIP file contains one or more files that have been compressed to reduce their file size. All modern operating systems include ZIP support in their file managers.
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