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VIDEOS
Refinery Safety: It’s Everybody’s Business.
This video gives an overview of the hazards of refinery work
and discusses ways workers can protect themselves at work,
employer responsibilities, and workers’ rights regarding
safety and health. Topics covered include: confined spaces,
chemical hazards, noise, respiratory protective equipment,
fire safety and emergency response. This video is designed
to be used as part of a comprehensive health and safety training
program for refinery personnel and contract workers who are
employed at refineries.
Available in VHS (English)
Running time: 18:00 minutes
$25.00
It’s Your Right To Be Safe. Workers’ rights
to a safe and healthful workplace are explained. In the context
of hazardous waste work, rights to thorough health and safety
training, medical exams, OSHA utilization, and refusal to
do hazardous work are discussed in a documentary style. The
video closes with a list of resources for more information
on this topic.
Available in VHS (English or Spanish)
Running time: 18:00 minutes
$25.00
Standing Your Ground on Safety. After successfully
responding to a dangerous situation at work, workers outline
the key elements of an injury/illness prevention program in
the context of a workplace labor/management health and safety
committee meeting. Job Safety Analyses and monthly plant inspections
are two approaches discussed to help ensure safety on the
job. This video is to be used as part of a comprehensive health
and safety training program.
Available in VHS (English)
Running time: 15:50 minutes
$25.00
Personal Protective Equipment and Personal Decontamination:
Field Procedures for Hazardous Waste Workers. Two workers
and their safety officer go through the steps for selecting
and "suiting up" in protective gear prior to entering
a hazardous waste area. Both air purifying and supplied air
respirators are inspected. Workers exiting the contaminated
work zone use a step-by-step decontamination procedure. This
video answers commonly asked questions about respirators and
decontamination and is to be used as part of a comprehensive
health and safety training program.
Available in VHS (English or Spanish)
Running time: 24:40 minutes
$25.00
Training: Key To a Safer Workplace. The importance
of training workers so they can make health and safety improvements
in the workplace is emphasized. The viewer observes a health
and safety training class where participants practice putting
on personal protective equipment and responding to a toxic
spill. After the training, many of the trainees explain that
they have developed a greater awareness of chemicals, the
importance of testing and monitoring devices, the importance
of working as a team, and emergency response techniques. Trainers
and instructors emphasize the need for participatory training
techniques to help motivate workers to make changes in the
workplace.
Available in VHS (English or Spanish)
Running time: 8:30 minutes
$25.00
Your Work: Keepin' It Safe. A video developed by teens,
parents and teachers. It is designed to help youth learn about
safety and health issues they may face in the workplace. It
includes the stories of real teenagers and highlights a peer
education program that teaches students about their rights
on the job. This video is included in the Safe Jobs for
Youth curriculum unit, but can serve as a stand-alone
lesson.
Available in VHS (English)
Running time: 12:00 minutes
$10.00 (includes discussion guide)
Healthy Communities, Healthy Jobs: A Curriculum for Youth
Empowerment. A promotional video developed for teachers,
community based organizations and youth job training programs
which explains how LOSH’s “Healthy Communities,
Healthy Jobs” curriculum can be implemented. It is accompanied
by a written “How to Guide for Implementing Health and
Safety Classes for Youth.”
Available in VHS (English)
Running time: 8:00 minutes
$10.00 (includes discussion guide)
SLIDE SHOWS
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Beginner’s Guide to Industrial Hygiene. This is a
slide show with a written script, audio tape, and a discussion
booklet. A joint labor/management health and safety committee
hires an industrial hygienist to assess whether worker health
problems are job-related. Workplace inspection steps are covered
and include a description of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs),
Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs), Time Weighted Averages
(TWAs), sampling methods, monitoring instruments and routes
of exposure. After conducting the inspection, the hygienist
explains the procedures for controlling the identified hazards.
The discussion booklet, "A Beginner’s Guide to Industrial
Hygiene" includes questions on the technical information
presented and how to improve health and safety conditions
in the workplace. The Appendix also includes model contract
language for establishing health and safety committees, a
sample MSDS, and information about industrial hygiene equipment,
the OSHA Hearing Conservation Amendment and OSHA ventilation
requirements.
Also available in Spanish as: “Guía para Principantes
en la Higiene Industrial” with slides and script in
Spanish (no discussion booklet)
$25.00
BOOKS
Refinery Safety: Benefit Not Burden. The
proceedings from a UCLA-LOSH-sponsored conference of the same
name are included in this book. Topics presented include:
“Overview of Hazards to Workers,” by Dr. Ruth
Heifetz and Jay Preston; “Regulations to Protect Workers,”
by Tom Butler, “Legal Liability,” by Fred Macksoud,
and “Key Elements of a Good Health & Safety Plan
in a Refinery,” by John Siggson of the Oil, Chemical
& Atomic Workers Union. Other issues covered are: training,
joint health and safety committees, emergency response plans,
maintenance/inspection programs, and subcontracting in refineries.
Available in English, 152 pages
$13.00
Technological Change in the Workplace: Health Impacts for
Workers. This book contains presentations of ten speakers
at a UCLA seminar series. Topics include: “Information
Technology: New Tools, Old Problems and New Possibilities
for a Healthy Workplace,” by Elaine Bernard; “Promoting
Technological Change in the Workplace: Public and Private
Initiatives," By Nicholas Ashford; “Technological
Change in the Office: Health Effects on Workers,” by
Ellen Bravo; “Technological Change in the Workplace:
A Need for an Ergonomic Approach,” by Barbara Silverstein;
Technology and the Law: Two Experiences from the Mining and
Poultry Industries,” By Davitt McAteer; “Worker
Stress Caused by Technological Change: What are the Healthy
Alternatives? By Robert A. Karasek; “New Technology
and the Work Environment: Challenges for Hospitals and the
Health Care Industry,” by Steven Deutsch; “High
Tech Goes Third World,” by Harley Shaiken; “The
Need for New Technology and the Role of Injury Prevention
Research,” by Franklin Mirer; and “Designing Ergonomic
Tools in Sweden,” by Bo Lindqvist.
Available in English,130 pages
$10.00
Risk Mapping—A Group Method for Improving Workplace
Health and Safety. This easy-to-read book describes how
workers together can develop risk maps of their worksite and
then how these can be used to make health and safety improvements.
Examples where risk mapping has been used, lesson plans and
other resources are included.
Available in English, 47 pages
$10.00
Moving a Mountain: A Neighborhood Success Story. This bilingual English/Spanish
fotonovela, in a comic book format, tells the story of a community in Southeast Los
Angeles County that successfully waged a three year campaign to close down a concrete
recycling firm in their neighborhood. Communities for a Better Environment, an urban
environmental organization, helped the community document health problems associated
with the plant and build a broad-based environmental justice campaign. Community groups
and schools who are working to reduce environmental health risks in their neighborhoods
can use "Moving a Mountain".
Bilingual: English/Spanish, 12 pages
$3.00
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School in the Middle: Teens Take on Toxics. This bilingual
English/Spanish fotonovela, in a comic book format, tells
the story of three young high school women who work with a
community based organization to get some serious toxics cleaned
up in their neighborhood middle school. They researched the
issue and organized residents in their neighborhood. By putting
pressure on environmental regulators, they caught the attention
of state legislators. Community groups and schools who are
working to reduce environmental health risks in their neighborhoods
can use "School in the Middle" to demonstrate how mobilizing
neighbors can lead to positive change.
Bilingual: English/Spanish, 12 pages
$3.00
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FACT SHEETS
 NEW!
Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets. These English/Spanish fact
sheets cover common
issues of particular concern to Spanish-speaking workers.
They are also useful and appropriate for English-speaking
workers. The fact sheets cover the topics of: ways to identify
risks in your workplace, your rights under Cal-OSHA, and ergonomics).
They are written for workers with limited literacy. Simple
language is used whenever possible and the text is coupled
with graphics to illustrate some of the key messages. These
fact sheets can be downloaded using the links above
POSTERS
“Got Work? Safety Starts with “S” but
begins with YOU!” This colorful poster/book cover
was designed with input from a high school class to promote,
educate, and advocate for the health and safety of youth.
It provides contact numbers and web site addresses for worksite
health and safety resources. It can be posted in classrooms,
career centers, libraries, hallways, or display cases, or
it can be used as a fun and attractive book cover.
$1.00 each
Designed By: Peter Tovar
“Safe Workplaces Make Safe Communities”.
This is a print of an original painting by a native Los Angeles
artist. It depicts immigrant workers wearing protective gear
as they march for health and safety rights.
$1.00 each
Designed By: Wayne Alanis Healey
ORDER INFORMATION
Please fill out and submit the order form
For more information, phone (310) 794-5964, fax (310) 794-6403.
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