Rick Melvill, creative director for communications company Unplugged, discusses in this February 2010 MiningWeekly video that use of puff adders, pythons, and mambas in safety campaigns for mining companies. They are used as metaphors for safety hazards in the workplace.
This video, uploaded in September 2011, discusses a recent fatality involving a wood chipper. A fatality investigator, assisted by co-workers who were there during the fatal event, recreates the incident, explaining the hazards contributing to the worker's death and how to avoid them. In the video’s description, CDPH says wood chippers are potentially dangerous machines that were involved in the deaths of six workers in the United States in 2010. The video was produced by the California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/ohb-face in the Occupational Health Branch of the California Department of Public Health.
The rapid spread of a global infection, as witnessed in “Contagion,” is scary, but is it realistic? Director of the Emory Global Health Institute Jeffrey Koplan, MD, MPD, has worked on virtually every major public health issue of the past few decades, including infectious diseases such as smallpox, HIV/AIDS, and SARS. Koplan, a former director of the CDC and current president of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes, discusses the threat of pandemic diseases in this September 2011 Emory University video.
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, under secretary for Food Safety at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announces a "major step forward in food safety" on Sept. 14, 2011, as she discusses USDA's announcement that six additional strains of pathogenic E. coli have been declared adulterants in non-intact raw beef. Raw ground beef, its components, and tenderized steaks found to contain these bacteria will be prohibited from sale to consumers.
The New York City Department of Buildings' Forensic Engineering Unit is an elite team of engineers charged with assessing the structural stability of buildings during major emergencies
and overseeing the repairs of these structures. The August 2011 video is narrated by the unit's executive director, Timothy Lynch, P.E.
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, three air traffic controllers share how they became aware that several aircraft were being hijacked in the New York area that day and what led to the Federal Aviation Administration's unprecedented decision to shut down the entire U.S. airspace.
Allstate Insurance Agency Owner Brent Jablonski offers helpful tips for boaters to remain safe out on the water and discusses the importance of having boat insurance.
Are your employees prepared for the unexpected? Watch a short video clip and hear how Captain “Sully” Sullenberger credits the four “C’s” with helping prepare him for the unexpected and safely land Flight 1549.
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