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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Respirator Safety - Using Respirators
Labels: PPE, Safety Training, safety videos
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The Difference Between Respirators and Surgical Masks
Labels: hospital safety, Industrial Health, PPE, Safety Training, safety videos
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Life Is For Living
Related past blog posts:
Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
Safety At Work - Falling Bricks
WSIB Workplace Safety Videos
Labels: Safety Training, safety videos, workplace injuries
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
How Not To Do Training
Related Past Posts:
Free Safety Videos
There Was Once A Nail Without A Job
Safetywork Award - Falling Bricks
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
New Video - Combustible Dust: An Insidious Hazard
Related Past Posts
OSHA Issues New Combustible Dust Instruction
Combustible Dust Standards
Labels: hazardous materials, Industrial Safety, Safety Training, safety videos, workplace safety
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Friday, July 17, 2009
TEEX Industrial Firefighter Training
Labels: Industrial Safety, Safety Training, safety videos
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Dilbert And Safety
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
Labels: hazard identifcation, Safety Training, safety videos
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Friday, November 07, 2008
Some Days Are Bloodier Than Others
Prevent This - how the incident in the video could have been prevented.
Real Stories - a real-life story about someone who experienced what was shown in the video.
Real Stats - statistics about the frequency of workplace injuries
Play Again - view the video again
Play Another - view another of the six videos
Send To A Friend - send an email
Here is their press release:
A new public awareness campaign has been launched to remind young working Albertans that injuries and fatalities can be only moments away.
“Anybody who loses focus for a moment is at risk of making a mistake on the job, and our young workers heading into the work force are the most vulnerable,” said Hector Goudreau, Minister of Employment and Immigration.
The campaign focuses on specific questions young workers should ask their employers to avoid a workplace injury or death. Based on extensive research and testing, the campaign focuses on 15 to 19-year-olds and emphasises that workplace incidents can be very real with lasting consequences. It includes transit ads, video productions for movie theatres, posters, Internet banner ads - all of which encourage young workers to visit www.bloodylucky.ca.
“We find that every workplace incident uncovers several unfortunate choices that were made that led to the tragedy; there are no accidents,” says Dr. Michael Alpern of the Job Safety Skills Society, a member of the Young Worker Provincial Advisory Committee. “Research shows that young workers have a higher injury rate than their workplace peers. We see it first hand and we endorse any program that might save a life or limb.”
The campaign is part of Work Safe Alberta, a unique partnership between industry, labour and government. An integral part of the initiative is promoting workplace safety by increasing public awareness.
Labels: safety statistics, Safety Training, safety videos
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Safety@Work Awards - Falling Bricks
Labels: safety videos, VPP Implementation
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Safety@Work Creative Awards - Take The Lead
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Safety@Work Creative Awards - Safety Harness
Jointly organized by the Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) Council and Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) in collaboration with Ministry of Manpower (MOM), the Safety@Work Creative Awards showcases students’ creative talents in advocating the importance of safety at the workplace. The theme for this year competition is Safety@Work, with specific focus on Fall Preventions.
Four posts today will provide four of the award winning videos. This first video, from students of Nanyang Polytechnic, received the Judges' Choice Award. It is called "Safety Harness".
Labels: Safety Training, safety videos
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
There Once Was A Nail Without A Job
He'd done his duty proudly for years.
Then one day it was taken from him.
He was sure someone would notice and put him back to work.
But no one did.
Hope turned to despair.
Finally he decided he would be ignored no longer....
This innocent sounding introduction leads to serious head injury in a safety video titled "Nail" produced by the Extreme Group, in Halifax, Canada. It is one of three videos showing how safety hazards that are ignored can result in injury.
You can view all three videos at:
http://www.extremegroup.com/work/42
The Extreme Group, along with the Workers' Compensation Board of Nova Scotia , Workplace Health, Safety and Compensation Commission of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Worker's Compensation Board of PEI took home a Bronze Lion in the Product and Service, public health and safety category for the "Nail" television commercial at the 2008 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.
Labels: Safety Training, safety videos, workplace safety
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Winning Teen Safety Video
The following is a press release from DIR. The video produced by Jose Villasenor, Jr., a high school student, is impressive. To view the video visit http://www.dir.ca.gov/youngworker/PSAcontest08.asp.
California's Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) announced the release of the winning video public service announcement (PSA) created by California teens, between the ages of 14-17, as part of a workplace safety contest. The PSA will be shown at theaters statewide.
"The purpose of the contest is to encourage California teens to take an active role in learning about safety and health and labor requirements in the workplace," said DIR Director John Duncan. "The contest raises much needed public awareness of workplace safety and child labor laws."
The winning 2008 PSA was created by Jose Villasenor, Jr., a student of Lindhurst High School in Olivehurst who creatively delivered his message with unique visual effects focusing on workplace safety and health.
Sponsored by DIR’s Divisions of Occupational Safety and Health and Labor Standards Enforcement, as well as the Commission on Health and Safety and Workers’ Compensation, the contest was opened to all California teens under 18, challenging them to create a 30-second video PSA centering on workplace safety and/or child labor laws.
Villasenor’s PSA will be aired during movie previews at Cinemark Theater in Yuba City, near his home town of Olivehurst, and at theaters through out California from June 27-July 24, which are peak months when parents and teens attend movies most frequently. The PSA will be seen on well over 60 screens averaging 370,000 monthly viewers.
Working teens must also know their employment rights on the job. Teens under 18 are required to obtain a work permit from the schools or school district; cannot perform dangerous work specified under the child labor law guidelines, and they must be paid the minimum wage of $ 8 per hour.
According to DIR’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement over $450,000 in penalties have been issued to businesses for violations of child labor laws last year. Nearly 90 percent of those fines were employers who failed to have work permits for the minors they employed.
DIR was established to improve working conditions for California's wage earners, and to advance opportunities for profitable employment in California.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Crane Contacts A Power LIne - The Results Shown On Video
Labels: Construction Safety, safety videos, workplace safety
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Friday, November 23, 2007
This Is Not Safe
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
WSIB Workplace Safety Videos - Part Three
Today's second WSIB video shows an accident in a warehouse.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007
WSIB Workplace Safety Videos - Part Two
The following video is the 2006 WSIB Student Video Contest Winner. This video is different from the "shock" type videos produced by WSIB. It is an emotionally powerful video.
The Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) promotes workplace health and safety, and provides a workers compensation system for the employers and workers of Ontario, Canada. The vision of WSIB is to eliminate all workplace injuries and illnesses.
Tomorrow we'll feature two more WSIB workplace safety videos.
Labels: safety videos
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Monday, November 19, 2007
WSIB Workplace Safety Videos
They have sponsored and produced a number of safety videos that are realistic, hard-hitting, and highly effective. We will feature several of them in this blog this week. The first is an animation created to help young workers to refuse to work in unsafe working conditions.
Tomorrow we'll feature two more WSIB workplace safety videos.
This next video came out just a week ago and has already been viewed over 15,000 times on YouTube. WARNING: this video contains graphic content.
Labels: safety videos, workplace safety
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Danger Of Power Lines Video
Labels: electrical safety, safety videos, workplace safety
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Klaus: First Day On The Job
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007
A Compelling Safety Video
Many of the industrial safety videos I've seen, particularly those about arc flash safety, present gruesome images of injured workers. This video has those images, but it is very different. It shows the importance of love in industrial safety. "Love" and "industrial safety" are two phrases that don't seem to belong together, but "this video demonstrates that they do very much belong together.
The video, called "Donnie's Accident" was made by Donnie's family. It demonstrates the importance of love for your family; love for your children; love for your wife and because of this love why industrial safety is so important.
Use either of the above links to see the Donnie's Accident video.
Labels: Arc Flash, Safety Training, safety videos
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Friday, May 25, 2007
Safety Training Videos Available To VPP Members
"The Resource Center is a collection of over 600 training video titles. Videos cover more than 100 occupational safety and health subjects from accident investigation to workplace violence. These training videos are made available to help broaden employer and employee safety and health knowledge and reduce injuries and illnesses in the workplace. A limited number of books are also available for loan upon request."
The videos are primarily available to OSHA Outreach Trainers, however OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Site employees are also eligible to become borrowers. This is an excellent resource for VPP sites.
Many of the videos are available in both English and Spanish. Here are some of the subjects covered:
| Accident Investigation Accident Prevention Aerial Lifts Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Operations Asbestos Automobile Repair and Servicing Back Safety Backhoes Bloodborne Pathogens Bridge Construction Cold Stress Compressed Gases Concrete Construction Confined Spaces Construction Equipment Construction Safety Construction Trades Corrosives Cranes, Hoists, and Conveyors Demolition Driving Safety Egress Electrical Safety Emergency Action Plans Ergonomics Excavation Explosives and Blasting Eye Protection Fall Protection Fire Extinguishers Fire Prevention First Aid Flammable Materials Food Service Foot Protection Forklift Trucks Foundries Grain Elevators Grinding Wheels Groundskeeping Hand Protection Hazard Communication Hazard Communication-Construction Hazardous Substances Hazardous Substances-Construction Hazardous Waste Operations | Head Protection Healthcare Hearing Protection Heat Stress Housekeeping Indoor Air Quality Industrial Safety Job Safety Analysis Job Stress Laboratory Safety Ladders and Stairways Lasers Lead Lockout/Tagout Logging Operations Machine Guarding Material Safety Data Sheets Materials Handling Painting Personal Protective Equipment Power Presses Process Safety Residential Construction Respiratory Protection Rigging Rim Wheels Road Construction Roofing Work Rubber Industry-Mills and Calendars Sawmills Scaffolding Signs, Signals and Barricades Silica Solvents Tools Tree Trimming Tunneling Valves Ventilation Walking and Working Surfaces Warehouses Welding and Cutting Wholesale and Retail Trades Workplace Violence |
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