Occupational Health

Best Signs Story
12 Minutes (1998)

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This new video provides an introduction to the range of health and safety signs and symbols which are to be found in the workplace. The video is an innovative format making use of 3D Studio Max animation techniques. It will be a useful training guide for new employees and a valuable refresher for other workers as it shows a variety of different situations in workplaces where safety signs are important. This entertaining short film has been co-produced by HSE, HVBG (Germany), INRS (France) and NBOSH (Sweden).

Escaping The Maze Of Health And Safety Information (UK only)
20 minutes (1998)
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Dramatically illustrated by the experiences of ordinary people in ordinary jobs, Escaping The Maze navigates the virtual maze of workplace health and safety information sources. It provides the most up-to-date, cost-effective, confusion-free means of health and safety information gathering, and maps clear paths through the tangle of advice, to the best solutions to health and safety problems available.

Make Health Your Business (UK only)
17 Minutes (1996)
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Featuring Sir John Harvey-Jones, this video shows how occupational health risks have been managed in a number of different companies in a range of industries. It describes how workplace health risks can be identified and controlled by following a simple four stage approach:

Check the workplace to find out if you have a problem

It emphasises that keeping your workforce healthy makes good business sense. Everything in business depends on your people. If you look after your people there's a chance they'll look after you.

Hard To Handle
15 Minutes (1998)
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Hand-arm vibration can damage your employees' health...permanently.

Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) is a health risk for over a million people in jobs where power tools and machines are regularly used.

In this video, people describe the signs and symptoms of HAVS and how it has affected their ability to work and pursue many leisure activities. It highlights the statutory responsibilities of both employers and employees to look after their health.

Hard To Handle shows how the risks and suffering can be controlled by effective management, which can also bring business benefits such as improved efficiency, improved quality and reduced costs.

This video package includes HSE's book Vibration Solutions - Practical ways to reduce the risk of hand - arm vibration.

A Matter Of Life And Breath
14 Minutes (1994)
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A graphic illustration of the debilitating effects occupational asthma can have on people's lives. It explains to employers the steps they can take to prevent employees from developing long-term lung damage. The role of employees, who need to know what to look for and why, is also emphasised.

This video forms part of the HSE's Breathe Freely campaign to raise awareness about the dangers of respiratory sensitisers.

Guide also available: 'Preventing asthma at work: how to control respiratory sensitisers'. (L55) ISBN 0 7176 0661 9. Price:£6.25.

Rash Decisions
17 Minutes (1996)
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Work-related dermatitis affects many people in all sorts of industries - hairdressing, construction, catering, cleaning, engineering, printing and horticulture, to name but a few. An estimated 84,000 people have dermatitis caused or made worse by work, resulting in 132,000 working days lost each year. The good news is that this suffering and financial loss are preventable. This video, by demonstrating that managing the risks makes good business sense and prevents unnecessary suffering, aims to raise awareness of the causes of occupational dermatitis and the steps employers need to take to prevent it.

What The Papers Weigh! (UK and Europe only)
19 Minutes (1999)
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What the papers weigh! is a training video that looks at safe manual handling practice for all who routinely handle newspaper and magazine bundles.

Using computer graphics and actual work activity, the video shows:

Over one third of injuries at work are a result of manual handling tasks... The manual handling of paper bundles can cause injuries ranging from strained muscles to permanent damage to the spine.

What the papers weigh! will be of interest to publishers, distribution contractors, wholesalers, newsagents and other retailers. It highlights the duties of both employers and employees to control risks, using manual handling risk assessments and good lifting technique to help prevent injuries.

For Small Firms

Signposts For Health And Safety (UK and Europe only)
300 Minutes (1997)
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This series, originally broadcast as 10 half-hour programmes for small firms, was shown on BBC2, by BBC Learning Zone, as part of The Business Hour.

The programmes visit a variety of businesses showing how they have successfully dealt with a range of health and safety issues. Companies visited include a hairdresser, a construction company, a farmer, a scaffolder, a jam-making and bottling factory, a printing works, a clothing manufacturer, an engineering works and a hotel.
Each programme includes a surgery where Jacqueline Jeynes, a health and safety expert, gives advice to a business owner on how to tackle a particular problem such as finding out who regulates their business or who is responsible for workers on site.

contains advice on how to get started, and on dealing with noise at work. A surgery on who is responsible for contractors on site.

examines who enforces health and safety law, and how to avoid manual handling problems. The surgery looks at using health and safety consultants.

looks at assessing risks in a variety of workplaces, and at electrical safety. The surgery discusses the effects of European law on health and safety.

highlights the importance of good housekeeping, and looks at preventing fire and explosions. The surgery discusses the need for a health and safety policy, especially for split site employment.

examines the business benefits of health and safety and also the safe use of chemicals. The surgery looks at insurance cover and liability for injuries.

looks at the importance of managing health risks, and at avoiding slips, trips and falls in the workplace. The surgery discusses introducing a no-smoking policy.

includes advice on first aid at work and on reporting accidents; also looks at safe workplace transport. A surgery on the law regarding the employment of competent workers.

looks at protecting the public and insurance, also safety in the office. A surgery on appealing against a decision by a health and safety inspector.

examines health and safety training and consulting workers; also looks at hazards on building sites. The surgery explains how to find out who regulates what kind of business.

looks at the different places people can go for help and information; also looks at safety in the manufacturing business with an examination of safe maintenance work and machinery guarding. The surgery discusses how best to encourage workers to ask for help on health and safety.

Whose Risk Is It Anyway?
17 Minutes (1992)
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This common sense approach to health and safety hazards in the workplace could not only save lives, but also help small firms comply with new legislation. Risk assessments, compulsory from 1993, are simply explained. A factory inspector discusses health and safety aspects of production in a factory setting with the manager who will carry out the risk assessment. Several people in small businesses, including a hairdresser, clothing manufacturer and office manager, explain how they have tackled health and safety problems successfully in their own operations without great difficulty or cost.

Electrical Safety

Alive...Or Dead
21 Minutes (1982)
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Live electrical cables, whether overhead or buried underground, are a serious hazard. The film emphasises the rules which should be followed, and reminds those involved of the dangers of ignoring the rules in dramatic fashion, by showing the effect of piercing a live underground cable.

Live Wires
12 Minutes (1994)
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Shows how to comply with the law, by taking sensible measures. It explains what is meant by portable electric equipment and shows how an inspection system could operate. The programme focuses on a simple, inexpensive system of visual inspection, carried out by a sensible member of staff who has received basic training. This can detect about 95% of the damage or faults that can occur. It gives typical examples of what to look for and guidelines on the frequency of inspection.

Fork Lift Trucks

Dangerous Manoeuvres
8 Minutes (1993)
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Lift truck overturning accidents are usually serious and frequently cause fatal injuries to the operator. The potential consequences of incorrect operating techniques are often not fully appreciated by operators. This video considers a number of situations which may lead to lateral overturning. The effects of these dangerous manoeuvres are demonstrated using a specially adapted counter balanced lift truck. The issues raised apply to all designs of lift truck and will be beneficial to both trainee and established lift truck operators.

Dust Hazards

Dust In Quarries
18 Minutes (1992)
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Examines the problem of silicosis associated with dust in quarries. Assessment of risks to workers' health and control measures are covered. Maintenance, examination and testing of equipment, together with informing and training workers are stressed.

Woodworking

The Cutting Edge II

This series of three videos was revised in December 1998 to take account of the legal changes when the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER) and the Woodworking Approved Code of Practice came into effect. They promote the management of health and safety in the woodworking industry, in which there are nearly twice as many machinery accidents as in any other hazardous industry. The series was filmed in a number of locations and shows the diversity of the industry.

The complete series of 'Cutting Edge' videos is available at the special purchase price of £75.00 (UK only)(excluding VAT & postage) (Postage: £6.00 + VAT per order).

The Cutting Edge...II - Managing For Safety
15 Minutes (1998)
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Highlights the need to introduce, develop and maintain an effective health and safety strategy. It follows the progress of a management meeting devising a strategy and implementing it. The video confirms that a businesslike approach to health and safety is an essential ingredient to the success of any company.

The Cutting Edge... II - A Safe Machine
11 Minutes (1998)
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This video encourages good standards of machinery safety through well managed training and supervision. It emphasises that the majority of woodworking machinery accidents are preventable if staff receive the necessary training and supervision. Training is vital for everyone in the management chain to ensure that each person knows their responsibilities and capabilities. Safe working practices, properly guarded machines and the use of safety devices are also shown.

The Cutting Edge... II - A Healthy Business
12 Minutes (1998)
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Of the many health hazards faced by workers in the woodworking industry, noise and dust are the most obvious.

Noise from machinery can lead to noise-induced hearing loss. Wood dust can cause respiratory illness and in some cases a rare form of nasal cancer. The health of the work force can be managed and controlled as are other aspects of their business.

Guarding Machines

Power Presses (Parts 1 & 2 on one videotape)
40 Minutes (1992)
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A programme devoted to the safety of mechanical power presses including brake presses. The first part introduces the basic components of such presses, in particular the flywheel, clutch and brake. The second part deals with the safeguarding of these machines and includes a brief reference to the Power Press Regulations 1965 and 1972.

Specialist

Control Of Exothermic Chemical Reactions
57 Minutes (1991)
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This video looks at the chemical process involved in runaway reactions, showing examples of accidents that have occurred.

In seven parts this programme covers:

The problem.

Fill Safe - Safe Filling Of LPG Cylinders
20 Minutes (1994)
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This video deals with the precautions to be adopted at premises where Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders are filled for commercial resale, lease or hire. It covers cylinder design and identification, fire precautions, the Pressure Systems and Transportable Gas Containers Regulations 1989, and safe filling of cylinders with reference to the appropriate industry Codes of Practice, British and European standards. This valuable training aid is aimed at anyone working in the LPG cylinder filling industry, including large networks, small local distributors and firms with their own LPG powered vehicles.

Microbiological Risks When Working With Sewage And Sludge
12 Minutes (1995)
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Illustrates the appropriate use of control measures to reduce the risk of what can be serious diseases. It describes the causes of illnesses like diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis and salmonella. The industries and processes involved in working with sewage include: waste water treatment; sludge spreading on forest and farmland; sewer replacement; inspection and maintenance; cleaning sewage tanks in aircraft and railway industries. Protective measures to minimise the risks are shown for anyone who has to work with sewage or its products.

One Careful Owner
23 Minutes (1996)
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Looks at the more significant risk areas in the metal recycling industry. It provides a useful health and safety checklist for this potentially hazardous industry and will be a valuable training aid for employees.

It features a range of machinery used in the ferrous and non-ferrous sectors of the industry, including: crocodile shears; cleaning shears; cable strippers; box shears and baling machines; car flatteners and fragmentisers. Preventative measures discussed include machinery guarding, permit to work systems, workplace transport, crane safety, exposure to lead, polychlorinated biphenols and radioactive contamination.

Safe Use Of Printing Chemicals: COSHH And Substitution
18 Minutes (1998)
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A guidance video for employers explaining and illustrating the basic steps of a COSHH assessment using case studies at three commercial printers. The video uses practical examples to show how printers can comply with COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 1994). It features print shop managers and others who explain the consequences and benefits, including those for health and safety, of process changes they have introduced.

The video pack includes The Printers Guide To Health and Safety, an all-in-one reference booklet for employers, printers and safety representatives.

Working Safely At Containment Level 3 (UK and Europe only)
15 Minutes (1997)
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When working with Hazard Group 3 biological agents it is essential that the most suitable containment measures are used. It is a legal requirement that staff are given suitable instruction, information and training, and that they have sufficient knowledge and understanding of the risks and precautions that need to be taken in microbiological procedures and practice before commencing work.

Working Safely At Containment Level 3 (CL3) is a new video produced by the Health & Safety Executive that demonstrates the physical requirements of the CL3 laboratory. It also provides guidance on the procedural controls that you need to ensure safe working practice.

It uses animated diagrams to show inward air flow systems and the siting of microbiological safety cabinets. It also covers use of protective clothing and routine cleaning procedures, as well as dealing with spillages, both inside and outside safety cabinets. Finally it reminds of the need for proper maintenance and testing of equipment in the CL3 laboratory.

This video will help staff to interpret the COSHH Regulations 1994 when working with infectious agents including Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), Salmonella typhoid (typhoid), Bacillus anthracis (anthrax), HIV and Hepatitis B and C. It will also help staff to deal with common practical problems when working in CL3 laboratories.

Working Safely At Containment Level 3 will be of use to laboratory managers and staff in research facilities, universities and hospitals with CL3 laboratories.

Offshore Work

Lifeboat On-Load Release Gear Maintenance
22 Minutes (1997)
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In the recent past, maintenance activity on lifeboat release gear has resulted in four fatalities. Investigations into these accidents has revealed inadequate work practices and inferior training, potentially confusing equipment and a lack of understanding of operating principals of the equipment.

Concerned by this spate of accidents, the Health and Safety Executive's Offshore Safety Division (OSD) began an initiative to prevent their reoccurrence, including a 22 minute video illustrating current best safe practice in relation to release gear maintenance.

Lifeboat On-Load Release Gear Maintenance uses a mixture of video footage, computer graphics simulation and realistic models to highlight the essential tasks of safe maintenance.
This clear and concise video:

Covers the essential constituent parts of a typical on-load release gear system, showing - the workings of each part
- their interrelation to each other
- how each contributes to the operation of the system

Shows examples of equipment malfunctions caused by poor or incorrect maintenance

Illustrates the correct method of safely taking a lifeboat out of service, highlighting the important act of transferring the boat onto its 'hanging off' maintenance pendants. This procedure, incorrectly executed, has been one of the major causes of accidents.

Examines safe systems of working clearly showing the correct steps in carrying out maintenance, and how to return the lifeboat to service, so that it is instantly available in an emergency.

It focuses on the most commonly used release gear system found in the UKCS, the mills 'Titan' on-load release gear, however, examples of other release gears are noted for comparison.

This video is aimed at offshore maintenance personnel who are responsible for carrying out maintenance on lifeboat release gear mechanisms. It will also be of interest to all safety managers, and others responsible for safety on offshore installations and on ships and ferries.

Trainers of maintenance teams will find the video a valuable addition as a supplement to the manufacturers' and operators own maintenance manuals.

It has been produced by the Health and Safety Executive with the support of the Marine Safety Agency, (MSA), United Kingdom Offshore Operators Association, (UKOOA), International Lifesaving Appliances Manufacturers Association (ILAMA), and equipment vendors.

Rash Decisions (Offshore)
12 Minutes (1996)
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Occupational dermatitis occurs in virtually all industries and business sectors. Offshore, job categories most at risk include: catering; construction; cleaning; drilling and maintenance. Shows substances as diverse as drilling mud components, cement, detergents, metal working fluids and laboratory chemicals can cause occupational dermatitis. This video aims to raise awareness of the causes of occupational dermatitis and the steps employers need to take to prevent it.

Shipyard Safety

Three Steps to Safety (UK and Europe only)
25 Minutes (1997)
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Before work starts on either ship build or repair, employers are required by law to look at the work programme in order to assess any risks involved.

Three Steps to Safety is a 25 minute video from the Health & Safety Executive designed to help people employed in shipyards to work more safely and healthily by following three simple - but vital - golden rules.

STOP: Examine the job you are about to start and think about what you are doing.
LOOK: Study the processes involved, and choose the right equipment for the job.
LISTEN: Heed advice from your supervisor about health and safety procedures. Then act.

The video demonstrates that although good planning, physical control, sourcing and preparing the right equipment can reduce hazards, not all hazards can be eliminated. It describes the following key elements to safety, which should be reinforced by employers. These include:

Safety in the Transport Industry

Danger - Vehicles At Work
15 Minutes (1995)
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This video is relevant to employees, employers, managers or self-employed people in all sectors of industry who come across workplace transport regularly. About 80 deaths every year are caused by workplace transport accidents which also result in more than 1000 major injuries and 5000 over three-day injuries. To ensure a safe workplace, vehicle activities need to be properly managed.
'Danger - Vehicles At Work' offers simple advice and guidance to help ensure vehicle movements at the workplace, and activities such as loading, maintenance etc., are carried out safely.

Health And Safety In Motor Vehicle Repair
17 Minutes (1991)
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Over 2,000 accidents are reported each year in Britain's 50,000 or so motor vehicle repair workshops. This video gives detailed advice on servicing, mechanical and body repair, and painting. It also gives information on organising health and safety in garages. Of value to employers and employees alike.

Thrills Not Spills (UK and EEC only)
17 Minutes (1996)
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This guide to the ergonomics of passenger containment will help fairground ride designers, manufacturers and operators to consider the design of systems from the user's point of view.

Part 1 introduces the basic ergonomics principle as they apply to passenger containment on amusement rides.
Part 2 shows how to use the pro forma and tables supplied, to assess a passenger containment system.

Safety in Construction

How Are You Today?
27 Minutes (2000)
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"There are 3000 deaths a year from asbestos related diseases, all of which could have been prevented"

The Health & Safety Commission is proposing to tighten up the law to reduce the risks from asbestos which remains in workplace buildings throughout Britain in both the public and private sectors. A new duty to manage asbestos will be placed on those responsible for such buildings.

The Health & Safety Executive has produced a new video, "How are you today?" which aims to raise asbestos awareness and inform managers of their responsibilities.

The video is in two parts:-

Part One: Asbestos Awareness (16 mins) is aimed at workers in building related occupations and is the tragic and thought provoking story of Nick, a young builder, whose long term, cumulative exposure to asbestos causes his deterioration in health.

Part Two: A Managers Guide (11 mins) is aimed at employers and building managers. It outlines the responsibilities of those in charge of premises that may contain asbestos.

Topics covered include

High Designs (UK and Europe only)
24 Minutes (1998)
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Design out risks in construction and maintenance

Are you complying with the CDM Regulations?

This video looks at the design of safe access and places to work at height during maintenance operations. The video shows how those who design structures not only influence the safety of those who build them but also those who are involved in maintenance activities.

Key messages in this video are that:

High Designs will be of interest to designers, builders and consultants concerned with construction and maintenance activities at height.

Plan Your Slinging
16 Minutes (1988)
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A slinger has to know which sling to use, how to use it, what signals to give to the crane driver and how to move a load safely. This programme demonstrates precautions and planning necessary in the professional movement of equipment and materials which require a 'sling'. The full lifting procedure is laid out in seven significant steps.

Accident Prevention

Children and Young People

Game Over
9 Minutes (1997)
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Every year children are injured and killed as a result of activities on all sorts of building sites. The purpose of this video, aimed at 7-11 year old children, is to keep them off building sites.

The programme is in two parts. The first is a short compelling drama (6½ minutes) about three children who go on to a building site with disastrous consequences; the second part gives a resume of other hazards that could hurt them (2½ minutes) and reinforces the message: NEVER GO ON A BUILDING SITE.

The video relates to a national curriculum in England and Wales at Key Stage 2 (Science). In Scotland, it is relevant to 5-14 Environmental Studies, Attainment Outcome: Health Education.

Never Rest
23 Minutes (1993)
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Improving health and safety awareness among children is important, particularly in rural areas where hazards from farming and agricultural activities can put children's lives in danger. This programme tells the story of four children who investigate ghostly happenings on their farm. Although created for use by teachers of primary school age children, it carries messages for other adults farmers, parents, other relatives who should recognise and reduce the risks while encouraging children to enjoy the rural environment in safety.

Handling Rubber-reducing manual handling injuries in the rubber industry
19 Minutes (1999)
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In 1997/98 manual handling was responsible for over 40% of lost time accidents reported to the Health and Safety Executive by the rubber industry.

This 19-minute video looks at how five companies have identified and solved their manual handling problems.

The video shows practical ways to:

Fatal Traction is primarily aimed at students to reduce the likelihood of a painful and early death, though the messages it carries give important reminders to those already experienced in the industry.

Handling Timber

Watch Your Back - Avoiding Back Strain in Chain Saw Work
13 Minutes (1992)
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Back strain is a common complaint amongst those working with chain saws whether foresters, arborists or farmers. This video identifies causes and effects of back strain associated with chain saw use and timber handling activities. Chain saw users describe their back problems and demonstrate bad handling techniques and show how back injury can be avoided by using correct techniques and simple handling aids.