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. Then in 1981, the incoming head of OSHA Thorne Auchter recalled and destroyed most copies. A few copies were kept alive by renegade union officials who refused to return their copies. The penalty for being discovered in possession of one of these films was loosing all OSHA funding for their safety and health programs.This film was preserved through the years through the efforts of Mark Catlin, who made this and other censored OSHA films available for digitizing.
OSHAOSHA at WorkAVA21242VNB1Presents an overview of the mission and function of the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and details how OSHA began.
Eric Peoples, a victim of Bronchiolitis Obliterans (Popcorn Lung), testified about OSHA standards and workplace hazards before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee Subcommittee on Workforce Protections on April 24, 2007.
The animated movie, The Osha Castle Tragedy, is a story based on an historical event that took place in India, and is one of the most famous events in the history of Buddhism.Sakyamuni Buddha teaches about this event in tha KanmuryojuKyo, also known as The Meditation Sutra. The central theme is the purpose of life, and how to realize it by following the teachings of Sakyamuni Buddha.The Osha Castle Tragedy recalls image of 2,600 years ago.Sakyamuni Buddha used skills to guide Queen Idaike toward her salvation. Queen Idaike was the first person on Earth to be saved by Amida Buddha.
The production of rubber products, including automobile tires, automotive and appliance moldings, and rubber gloves, involves subjecting mixtures of hundreds of chemicals to heat, pressure, and catalytic action during a variety of manufacturing processes. As a result, the work environment may be contaminated with dusts, gases, vapors, fumes, and chemical byproducts (such as N-nitrosamines, the focus of this clip). Workers may be exposed to these hazards through inhalation and skin absorption during rubber processing and product manufacturing. Physical hazards such as noise, repetitive motion, and lifting may also be present. Health scientists have been challenged to define these exposures and work conditions when investigating the health of rubber products workers.Several types of cancer have been the chronic disease most frequently reported in occupational health studies of rubber workers. In the late 1940s, British rubber workers were reported to be at increased risk of bladder cancer from exposure several amine chemicals. In the United States, investigations by Dr. Thomas Mancuso in 1968 revealed excess cancer deaths among a group of Ohio rubber workers employed in 1938 and 1939; these investigators recommended additional studies of U.S. rubber workers. In 1970, the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America (URW -- now merged into the United Steelworkers Union) joined with six major American rubber companies to establish a joint occupational health program. A contract was negotiated with the Schools of Public Health at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina to conduct epidemiologic studies of rubber workers that emphasized cancer incidence and mortality. A large number of published and unpublished reports were produced as a result of these studies until the program was discontinued in 1980. For more details, see the SPECIAL NIOSH HAZARD REVIEW: Rubber Products Manufacturing Industry, 1993 at http://www.cdc.gov/Niosh/rubberhr.html . This clip is from the 1980 OSHA film, Worker to Worker.
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Gary Puleio, http://garypuleio.blogspot.com , a cement truck driver was killed at Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete on 8/15/2001 after falling from a concrete tower. OSHA accepted the implausible excuse offered by Redi-Mix that Gary just "wandered up there on his own" at the end of the driving shift rather than, as a new employee, being assigned the dangerous task of cleaning the tower without any safety equipment. This short video made by 1 inspector alone using a portable camera was all that was deemed necessary despite the fact that Redi-Mix had been cited for numerous serious violations only months before Gary was killed. Years passed before this facility was inspected again. The company paid a $6000 fine for REPEAT violations and accepted no wrongdoing.
Gary Puleio, http://garypuleio.blogspot.com , a cement truck driver was killed at Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete on 8/15/2001 after falling from a concrete tower. OSHA accepted the implausible excuse offered by Redi-Mix that Gary just "wandered up there on his own" at the end of the driving shift rather than as a new employee being assigned the dangerous task of cleaning the tower without any safety equipment. This short video made by 1 inspector alone using a portable camera was all that was deemed necessary despite the fact that Redi-Mix had been cited for numerous serious violations only months before Gary was killed. Years passed before this facility was inspected again. The company paid a $6000 fine for REPEAT violations and accepted no wrongdoing.
In the two years preceding OSHA's enactment, 14,000 workers died each year from workplace hazards, and another 2 million were disabled or harmed. Additionally, the "chemical revolution" following WWII introduced a vast array of new chemical compounds to the manufacturing environment. The health effects of these chemicals were poorly understood, and workers received few protections against prolonged or high levels of exposure. While a few states, such as California and New York, had enacted workplace safety as well as workplace health legislation, most states had not changed their workplace protection laws since the turn of the century. The OSHAct went into effect on April 28, 1971 (now celebrated as Workers' Memorial Day). This clip is from the 1980 film, OSHA. That entire film is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v b1N48Z5HerA
Gary Puleio, http://garypuleio.blogspot.com , a cement truck driver was killed at Meadville Redi-Mix Concrete on 8/15/2001 after falling from a concrete tower. OSHA accepted the implausible excuse offered by Redi-Mix that Gary just "wandered up there on his own" at the end of the driving shift rather than, as a new employee, being assigned the dangerous task of cleaning the tower without any safety equipment. This short video made by 1 inspector alone using a portable camera was all that was deemed necessary despite the fact that Redi-Mix had been cited for numerous serious violations only months before Gary was killed. Years passed before this facility was inspected again. The company paid a $6000 fine for REPEAT violations and accepted no wrongdoing.
This clip of OSHA staff speaking about their work is from the 1980 film, OSHA. The entire film is available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v b1N48Z5HerA . Read about the experience of an OSHA inspector in Donald Lofgren's 1991 book, Dangerous Premises: An Insider's View of OSHA Enforcement. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University ILR Press, 1991). His book is drawn from his own experiences as a health inspector for the State of California OSHA program. He portrays the day-to-day problems faced by OSHA and OSHA compliance officers in its attempts to protect worker safety and health. His book explores corporate indifference, employer and employee ignorance, laxity on the part of many OSHA inspectors, and the inconsistencies that result when political appointees generate the procedures and implementation of the OSH Act.
