Caring For Carers (UK only)
42 Minutes (1997)
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Every year more than 1 in 7 people in Britain suffers from some form of severe mental illness. The two most common illnesses are schizophrenia and depressive illness (manic depression).
Caring for Carers is a 42-minute video made for Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust, aimed at supporting people who care for relatives. Using dramatic reconstructions, interspersed with carers talking frankly of their experiences, this video and supporting literature aims to share the skills developed by those already caring for people with mental illness.
The video covers useful guidance for carers dealing with different stages of mental illness including:
The accompanying information pack contains useful helpline numbers, including national voluntary organisations, a summary of the Carers Recognition Act and details about medications and their side effects. Caring for Carers will be of value to all mental health service providers, support groups and organisations for loaning to carers, helping them to come to terms with the effects of mental illness.
Safety in the Construction Industry
Looking After You - Looking After Yourself
14 mins (2000)
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Much of the work on construction sites is not only difficult and potentially
dangerous, but can mean working in dirty conditions and at times with hazardous
materials.
The video looks at the health, safety and welfare issues of working on a large construction site, and covers topics such as Dermatitis, Wells Disease and 'vibration white finger'. Supports the 'Working Well Together' campaign.
The Construction (Design And Management) Regulations 1994
18 Minutes (1996)
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Accident prevention in the construction industry comes from good management, which is assured by the correct application of the CDM Regulations. This new video package applies to a wide range of construction and engineering activities, including:
It will benefit organisations involved with construction projects, especially when issuing tenders for work, by understanding how to comply with health and safety regulations.
The video explains the requirements of the CDM Regulations, outlining roles and legal duties of:
The accompanying A4 manual (User's Tool Kit) provides guidance notes, including five Health & Safety Commission publications and essential templates of forms to enable managers and specialists to discharge duties they may have when engaging in a project covered by the Regulations. The templates are also supplied on floppy disk (Word Perfect 5.1) to enable companies to produce forms on their own headed paper.
Check It Out Before You Dig It Out
16 mins (1999)
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This new video highlights the dangers of working near underground cables and overhead power lines. It clearly outlines the procedures that must be taken to avoid hazards, and ensure all tasks are carried out safely.
These include:
In the last ten years 80 people have died and 3,000 were injured, nationwide, through contractors coming into contact with electricity at work. 1 in 3 accidents with overhead power lines is fatal.
Check it out before you dig it out gives essential safety training for contractors working near underground cables and overhead lines. It will help employers to meet their legal responsibility for health and safety.
Preventing Diseases from Sewage
15 mins (1999)
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Preventing diseases from sewage is a new video, aimed at employees who regularly work with sewage, sewage sludge and polluted waters. The programme identifies the risks employees are at from the many biological and chemical agents that inhabit sewage and water course systems.
The video looks at the microorganisms that may be present in sewage and
explains the symptoms and consequences of these viruses and how they can enter
the body.
These microorganisms include:
A Guide To Manual Handling Assessments
13 Minutes (1994)
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Incorrect manual handling techniques cause 65% of work related sprains, 50% of which are to the back. Back problems invariably build up over a period of years but once weakened, the back is more susceptible to further injury.
Introducing the Manual Handling Operations Regulations (1992) and manual handling assessments in the workplace, this video will prove beneficial to managers, supervisors and those responsible for implementing and maintaining correct manual handling procedures among employees.
The main elements of generic and specific manual handling assessments featured are:
The Task - start and finish point of loads being moved and physical nature
of tasks.
The Load - size, weight and shape of loads and mechanical lifting aids.
The Working Environment - access, tidiness,suitability and Personal Protective
Equipment.
Safeguarding Of Dangerous Machinery
10 Minutes (1994)
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With reference to the British and European Safety Codes of Practice Standards, this programme looks at various types of hazards such as cutting, shearing, friction and abrasion and, with the aid of examples, explains them and the safeguards to take for each one.
Further safety steps are shown in the form of the two key exchange system, the permit to work system, personal protective equipment and protective clothing. This video will benefit anyone working with machinery, whether they are trainees or experienced workers.
Health & Safety - Confined Spaces
25 Minutes(1999)
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Health and safety: Confined spaces is a training video, produced for Thames Water, that takes a step-by-step look at the requirements of the 1997 Confined Spaces Regulations. These include:
The video shows how to avoid costly accidents by carrying out a risk assessment and implementing control measures. It describes permit to work systems to help minimise risks and outlines the elements of training for everyone involved in confined spaces operations.
The programme ends by reminding viewers what they should never do and what they should always do when working in confined spaces. It emphasises that failure to comply with the regulations not only endangers the persons involved but can lead to criminal prosecution.
Health and safety: Confined spaces is essential safety training for managers and employees who work in confined spaces.
A Fatal Decision
18 Minutes (1996)
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A confined space is any place such as a chamber, tank, pit or sewer that by virtue of its enclosed nature presents a foreseeable risk from hazard. By failing to follow important new regulations on working in confined spaces employers are putting the lives of both their employees and contractors at risk.
This 18 minute video, using compelling dramatisation, shows how to prevent costly accidents, as it follows investigators making enquiries into the deaths of two contractors.
A Fatal Decision identifies potential hazards of working in confined spaces, and outlines the elements of risk assessments needed if employers or contractors have to enter a confined space.
These include assessing:
The video also highlights the importance of the correct selection of personnel, who should be medically fit and receive correct information, instruction and training. it focuses on a Safe System of Work including:
A Fatal Decision is an essential safety training video for managers and employees working in confined spaces
Metering Staff Safety
8 Minutes (1997)
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This new health and safety video is ideal for training employees of utility companies whose job is to read meters. It describes dangers that can so easily be overlooked and shows how to prevent common accidents suffered by metering staff. The video shows hazards met by employees who read meters in both domestic industrial locations, including poor access and obstructions to the meter, rushing the job, use of ladders and catwalks to facilitate access, slips and trips, dogs and Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI).
Lone Working
14 Minutes (1997)
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This video is about Personal Safety at work for you.
When you work alone you are exposed to hazards which need to be identified and assessed, so that you and your employees can work safely. Lone Working is a new 14 minute video training pack that shows managers all the aspects of a job activity that need assessing, to help you to comply with the law. These include:
Accompanying notes explain the principles of risk assessment and the human factors involved in safety at work.
The video also demonstrates the importance of employee responsibilities, including:
It concludes with examples of individual competences and personal safety tips when travelling by public transport or car, to reduce risks to lone workers. Accompanying notes outline the principles of risk assessment and identify human factors in safety at work.
Lone Working is essential safety training for all who work alone or for managers of lone workers.
