Join: Nov 21, 2006

Name: markdcatlin

Gender: Male

Hometown: Akron, Ohio

Location: Columbia, Maryland, US

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Music: Larry Penn, Michelle Shocked, Stan Rogers

I've been involved in workplace and environmental health and safety since the early 1980s. I started clipping short segments from these wonderful old films and clips to use in teaching and I'm glad to be able to share them over the Internet.

Videos (231)

Setting OSHA Standards 1990

  • Length: 3:41
  • Rating Average: n/a
  • View Count: 13
  • Author: markdcatlin

Tags: enforcement  hearings  labor  legal  NIOSH  OSHA  regulation  safety  setting  standard 

Over the past eight years, under the Bush administration, OSHA has delayed or halted work on important standards for worker protection and focused largely on voluntary programs. With Obama as President, OSHA will begin to issue many needed health and safety standards. For more on OSHAs...

Historical Hazards of Foundry Work 1999

  • Length: 0:49
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  • Author: markdcatlin

Tags: asbestos  cancer  Foundry  hazards  health  heat  HSE  hygiene  ILO  industrial  lead  metal  NIOSH  noise  OSHA  recycling  safety  silica  silicosis  worker 

For a good review of the hazards associated with foundry work and options for their control, read the 1985 NIOSH Criteria Document Recommendations for Control of Occupational Safety and Health Hazards: Foundries at http://www.cdc.gov/Niosh/85-116.html . Also check out the excellent factsheets...

Metal Fume

  • Length: 0:8
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  • View Count: 25
  • Author: markdcatlin

Tags: dust  exposure  fever  foundry  fume  hazard  hazardous  hazwoper  health  hygiene  industrial  material  metal  NIOSH  OSHA  sampling  vapor  welding 

In general use, the word fume means a gas, smoke, or vapor, especially if offensive or suffocating, such gasoline or paint fumes. However, industrial hygienists define the term fume in a more narrow way - Fumes are solid particles formed by condensation from the gaseous or vapor phase. Take...

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Worker to Worker

  • Length: 29:6
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
  • View Count: 2578' favoriteCount='16
  • Author: PublicResourceOrg

Tags: osha.gov  public.resource.org 

Worker to Worker (1980)A film showing the many kinds of safety and health problems that workers encounter on the job. Workers talk about OSHA and NIOSH and their experience in convincing others that they don't want to shut the plant down — they just want a safe work environment. Produced and...

The Story of OSHA

  • Length: 28:5
  • Rating Average: 4.90 from 10 people
  • View Count: 5810' favoriteCount='30
  • Author: PublicResourceOrg

Tags: osha.gov  public.resource.org 

The Story of OSHA (1980)This film tells workers how OSHA was set up to stem the tide of disease, injury, and death, and what their rights are under the law. Explains how NIOSH conducts tests, how standards are set, and how OSHA investigates complaints. Produced and distributed by OSHA in 1980....

Can't Take No More

  • Length: 29:3
  • Rating Average: 5.00 from 5 people
  • View Count: 5661' favoriteCount='21
  • Author: PublicResourceOrg

Tags: osh.gov  public.resource.org 

Can't Take No More (1980)A quick paced history of occupational health and safety in the U.S. from the Industrial Revolution to the 1970s. Produced and distributed by OSHA in 1980. Then in 1981, the incoming head of OSHA Thorne Auchter recalled and destroyed most copies. A few copies were kept...