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.


Downloading Files
 We have many downloads available on this website. You may need to install software to take advantage of our downloads. Most of the files we provide for download are cross-platform and you can download the software necessary to view these files for free.

Note:
You must have software compatible with at least Adobe Acrobat Reader version 5.0 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 Acrobat Reader 8.1.1.

These are the types of downloadable files you may see:
Icon File Extension Type of Document Free Viewer? Download Viewer
PDF file .pdf Portable Document Format
Yes
Powerpoint document .pps Microsoft Powerpoint
Yes
 Power Point Viewer 2003
Word document .doc Microsoft Word
Yes
Excel document .xls Microsoft Excel
Yes
Rich Text Format .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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