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Sikes named UA SafeState Executive Director
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (Mar. 30, 2015) John Sikes has been named
executive director of the UA
SafeState program at The University of Alabama.
Sikes began his career at the university in1988 with the
Division of Environmental and Industrial
Programs (DEIP) as a technical manager. DEIP has since become UA
SafeState. For more than
twenty-five years, Sikes has held positions of increasing
responsibility in leadership and
management with UA SafeState up to and including being named
Interim Executive Director in
January of 2013. His appointment to Executive Director of UA
SafeState was effective March30.
John has the ideal qualifications, experience, and expertise to
lead Safe State to the next level.
He has done an excellent job in the critical role of Interim
Executive Director of UA SafeState
for over two years. Under his leadership, the SafeState team has
not missed a beat. Hedeserves
our deep appreciation, in fact, his entire team does, said Dr.
Craig Edelbrock, dean of the
College of Continuing Studies.
As interim executive director of UA SafeState, Sikes has been
responsible for planning and
development of new training courses and services, marketing and
outreach and financialmanagement of the divisions $3.2 budget. His
team successfully reapplied and received a $1.3
million grant from the Occupational Safety and Health
Administration OSHA, which funds vital
occupational safety programs in the state. In 2014, UA SafeState
created the Alabama
Environmental Conference, which attracted hundreds of
environmental leaders from across the
Southeast.
It is with the support of an excellent team, many of whom I have
worked side-by-side with for
years, that we have been successful, said Sikes. I look forward
to continuing our work together
as we find innovative ways to extend UAs safety, health and
environmental services to
companies across the state.
Sikes earned a Bachelor of Science degree from The University of
Alabama and a Master of
Public Health degree from the University of Alabama at
Birmingham. He holds certifications in
asbestos inspection, management planning, lead inspection, risk
assessment and is a certified
indoor environmental consultant.
UA SafeState, a division of the University of Alabama College of
Continuing studies is designed to promote
occupational and environmental safety and health through
university-based programs of continuing education and
career enhancement. Environmental Programs provides
cost-effective consultation to Alabama businesses to assist
them in compliance with air, water and hazardous waste
regulations while the Occupational Safety and Health
program provides confidential health and safety consultation to
businesses within Alabama.
