From the 1948 British National Health Service (NHS) Public Information Film, Coughs and Sn
From the 1948 British National Health Service (NHS) Public Information Film, Coughs and Sneezes, this clip shows how to reduce the spread of disease from sneezing and coughing. Today, this is known as respiratory hygiene or cough etiquette and is an important way to reduce the spread of diseases such as the flu. For a modern version of this educational film, watch the creative video, Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves ? at http://www.coughsafe.com/media.html . For more on airborne disease infection control link to the Minnesota Dept. of Health at http://www.health.state.mn.us/divs/idepc/diseases/flu/avian/ hcp/standard.html
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This video tribute is for Tony Mazzocchi, an important US labor leader and workplace healt
This video tribute is for Tony Mazzocchi, an important US labor leader and workplace health and safety and environmental activist, who died in 2002. Tony Mazzocchi was a dynamic labor leader with the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers Union (now merged with the United Steelworkers Union) whose legacy lives on in today's workplaces and ongoing alliances between labor activists and environmentalists. His struggle to address the toxic exposure of tens of thousands of workers led to the passage of the US Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970. Mazzocchi pushed OSHA into being. Mazzacchi led the public campaign that made all the difference. He conducted a series of very public workshops/hearings in the late 1960s at which workers provided detailed information about the horrendous working conditions on shop floors all over the U.S. and Canada. As early as the 1950s, when the term "environment" was nowhere on the political radar, Mazzocchi learned about nuclear fallout and began integrating environmental concerns into his union work.
His life is recounted in the 2007 biography, The Man Who Hated Work and Loved Labor: The Life and Times of Tony Mazzocchi, by author and labor expert Les Leopold. This book won an Independent Book Publisher gold medal for best 2008 biography. Order a copy of this wonderful book at: http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/manwhohatedwork or at your local bookstore.
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Heat can kill workers if precautions are not taken. This clip was taken from a 1950s news
Heat can kill workers if precautions are not taken. This clip was taken from a 1950s newsreel as early research into heat stress was just beginning. Four environmental factors affect the amount of stress a worker faces in a hot work area: temperature, humidity, radiant heat (such as from the sun or a furnace) and wind speed. Individuals with high blood pressure or some heart conditions and people who take water pills may be more sensitive to heat exposure. The body defends itself from heat through three mechanisms: breathing, sweating, and changing the blood flow. The first reaction is to circulate blood to the skin, which increases skin temperature and allows the body to give off some heat. During heavy work, muscles need more blood flow, which reduces the amount of blood available to flow to the skin and release the heat. Sweating also helps the body to cool off, but only when the humidity levels are low enough to allow the sweat to evaporate and if water and salts lost through sweating are replaced. When the body becomes overheated, a condition of heat stress exists. Heat stress can lead to a number of problems, including heat exhaustion, heat stroke, heat cramps, fainting, or heat rash. For more about heat stress and its prevention at work, check out the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries website at: http://www.lni.wa.gov/Safety/Research/OccHealth/Reports/Heat Stress/Default.asp
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This is taken from the EPA video, Midwest Floods of 1997. Over one million people were fo
This is taken from the EPA video, Midwest Floods of 1997. Over one million people were forced from their homes in the Midwest as a result of flooding in 1997. The floods had dislodged propane tanks and drums containing hazardous chemicals, depositing them downstream under piles of debris. Gasoline storage tanks rose to the surface of the saturated ground. Water had also poured into home heating oil tanks, rendering the contents useless. The U.S. EPA responded as part of an inter-agency effort that included the U.S. Coast Guard National Strike Force, federal, state, and local agencies, and their contractors. EPA site responders oversaw the collection, identification, and disposal of hazardous materials ranging from thousand-gallon quantities of petroleum products to individual cans of spray paint.
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This is clipped from the 1944 film, Gas, of the Private Snafu series. Private Snafu is t
This is clipped from the 1944 film, Gas, of the Private Snafu series. Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional cartoon shorts produced between 1943 and 1945 during World War II. The character was created by director Frank Capra, chairman of the U.S. Army Air Force First Motion Picture Unit, and some of the shorts were written by Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel. The United States Army hired Warner Bros. animation studio. Most of the Private Snafu shorts were educational - through his irresponsible behavior, Snafu demonstrates to soldiers what not to do while at war.
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This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the
This cleanup was the first done under OSHA's then recent Hazwoper regulation and maybe the first time an OSHA program went into voluntary compliance mode (like the agency later did during the World Trade Center cleanup and Katrina) Contact me for more information on worker health and safety issues during this spill. I was living in Alaska at the time and worked with the Alaska Laborers Union on occupational health and safety concerns during the cleanup. My email is mdcatlin@earthlink.net . For a detailed federal government review of worker health and safety issues, read the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) report, Alaska Oil Spill Health Hazard Evaluation (HETA 89-200 & 89-273-2111), published in May 1991 and available on the NIOSH website at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/1989-0200-2111.pdf . For more information on the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill go to the Website - Sound Truth and Corporate Myths: The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill at http://www.soundtruth.info/ This website is from Riki Ott, PhD, a marine oil pollution expert and former commercial fisherman in Alaska's Prince William Sound. She was on the scene before, during, and after the Exxon Valdez oil spill and experienced firsthand the spill's effects, including environmental devastation, economic losses to the fishing industry, and psychosocial trauma to the close-knit community.
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This short clip is from Davitt McAteer's 1985 25-minutes video - Monongah 1907. The entire
This short clip is from Davitt McAteer's 1985 25-minutes video - Monongah 1907. The entire video, rich with detail about this disaster also traces the development of mine safety laws in the US. Monongah 1907 is now available on DVD for $14.95. For ordering information, send an email to: droberts@mcateer-assoc.com .
And don't miss Davitt McAteer's new book, Monongah: The Tragic Story of the 1907 Monongah Mine Disaster, the Worst Industrial Accident in U.S. History, recently published by the West Virginia University Press (2007) http://www.wvupress.com.
"When I heard that Davitt McAteer was working on a book detailing the unparalleled disaster at the Monongah mines, I though it promising news ... no one is positioned better than Davitt MsAteer to examine the Monongah mining disaster of 1907 from all the perspectives required: historical, sociological, legal, and economic. Monongah is an important book, long overdue."
From the Introduction by Robert B. Reich, former Secretary of the US Department of Labor, 1993 to 1997.
Davitt McAteer, ESQ., a native of West Virginia, has devoted much of his professional efforts to mine health and safety issues. During the 1970s, Davitt led the safety and health programs of the United Mine Workers and founded the Occupational Safety and Health Law Center. During the Clinton Administration, he served as the Assistant Secretary for Mine Safety and Health at the United States Department of Labor. In January of 2006, West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin asked Mr. McAteer to serve as personal advisor and conduct an independent investigation into the cause or causes of the Sago Mine Disaster and the Aracoma Alma No. 1 Mine Fire, both of which occurred in January 2006.
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Clipped from the Academy of Health Sciences 1983 training video, Treatment of Heat Injurie
Clipped from the Academy of Health Sciences 1983 training video, Treatment of Heat Injuries, this clip demonstrates the procedures from 1983 for identifying and treating the three heat injuries -- cramps, exhaustion and stroke. Heat-induced occupational illnesses can occur with excessive exposure to a hot work environment. Heat-induced disorders include transient heat fatigue, heat rash, fainting, heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. For more information, link to the NIOSH website at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/heatstress/ .
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The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee are
The disposal of drums of sodium into Lake Lenore, an alkaline lake in the Grand Coulee area of eastern Washington State, in 1947 by the War Assets Administration. From a January 13, 1947 newsreel available at the Internet Archive.
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