This clip shows worker health and safety protections in place at this Superfund site in North Hollywood, California. Two small warehouses were fille...
Dr. Irving J. Selikoff was a remarkable physician and scientist who contributed to knowledge in several areas of medicine, including asbestos-related...
Sadly, the effort to update OSHA's silica dust regulation, first issued in 1971, is not done more than 15 years after this campaign began. Each year,...
Clips showing uses of asbestos products in the 1950s and 1960s taken from government and industrial films. The films are available from the Internet...
Silicosis is an incurable lung disease caused by inhalation of dust that contains free crystalline silica. Overexposure to dust that contains microsco...
A clip demonstrating a new fire and heat resistant suit....
A conflict between industrialization and worker health developed in the painting industry during the early 1900s with the introduction of the spray ma...
In the early part of the 20th century, miners in Great Britain and the United States took caged canaries into coalmines in order to provide warning of...
This is from the 1984 NIOSH video, Dual Protection (14 minutes), an excellent training tool that is still relevant today, 25 years later. It explores...
The primary danger with carbon monoxide is that it cannot be easily detected. Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, and thus gives...