Video Library

The Sonoma County Safety Unit has a library of safety related content that is available for 14-day check out to any County department or special agency. Use the hyperlinked Table of Contents to review the subjects we have available and if you'd like to check out a title, follow any of the Library

Additionally, if there is a course that you'd like to recommend that we should include in the library, please let us know and we will review the request.

• Back Safety
• Blood Borne Pathogens
• Chemicals
• Department of Transportation
• Driver Safety
• Drug & Alcohol Testing
• Electrical Safety
• Emergency Actions
• Ergonomics
• Fall Protection
• General Safety
• Hearing Conservation
• Heat Safety
• Hot Work
• Power Tools
• Respiratory Protection
• Stress

A Bit About Backs (Two DVD Set)

Back Basics – 12 minute DVD that gives an overview of how the back works. Some clinical information is shared, but in a casual and easy to understand manner.

Risk Factors – 13 minute video, your staff will learn how to access what activities or behaviors may put them most at risk. 

Prevention Strategies – 15 minute video, your staff will learn proper techniques and problem solving skills to minimize the risk of back injury. 

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On the Road: The Lighter Side of Lifting

Ideal for new employee orientations, this video will teach proper lifting in a fun and entertaining way. In the video – “On the Road” The Lighter Side of Lifting”, Michael Melnik, M.S., O.T.R., not only illustrates the right and wrong way to lift, but further provides strategies for better lifting. This information is presented in a way that emphasizes safety and makes it easy for the employee to understand and remember. Finally, your employees will be given different circumstances in which they must problem-solve and determine the best way to lift. Keep your employees safe and healthy by sharing with them this powerful and educational tool. 

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Back In Step

Provide your employees with a tool that gives them the information they need to take care of their injured backs. “Back in Step” is a motivational program created to help people recovering from back problems “make it through the day.” The video helps injured employees recognize their role in the recovery process and understand how the things that they do can either help or hinder the recovery process. This is a great program for distributing to all employees!

 Program Highlights:
• Covers both work and home
• Demonstrates how to do tasks with an injured back
• Helps reduce lost work time

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Bloodborne Pathogen Training for Employees

Many workers make the mistake of thinking that only healthcare providers are at risk from bloodborne pathogens exposure, but almost all employees in the workforce can be exposed to these dangerous microorganisms that can cause serious diseases. Employees must go through bloodborne pathogen training in order to receive their OSHA certificate. Workers must be well versed in the universal precautions of the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard 1910.1030 and know how to respond to exposure situations using the exposure control plan. This training video highlights the hazards of bloodborne pathogens and covers OSHA regulations regarding bloodborne pathogens.

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Bloodborne Pathogens: The Unexpected Hazard

Bloodborne Pathogens are sometimes called the “Unexpected Hazard” because, for most of us, we just don’t expect to come into contact with blood or bodily fluids when performing our normal job duties.  Nevertheless, an unexpected encounter with Bloodborne Pathogens can happen at anytime.  Responding properly when confronted with blood and other bodily fluids is critical to your health and safety.

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GHS Hazcom Office Training 

This course covers OSHA’s Hazard Communication Standard and emphasizes what it is and how to comply. After completion, employees will be able to:

• Explain the need for hazard communication in the workplace
• Describe employers’ responsibilities under the Hazard Communication Standard
• Determine whether a substance is classified as a hazard based on physical and health hazard criteria
• Read an SDS and label to obtain hazard information for a chemical
• Protect themselves from hazardous chemicals

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Alcohol & Drug Testing/Driver Safety

Using a conversational tone that speaks directly to drivers, this program:

• Discusses the specific rules under Parts 40 and 382 of the FMCSRs, including key definitions, prohibited conduct, and the circumstances under which drivers will be tested
• Assists organizations to comply with requirements of 49 CFR 382.601 (providing your drivers with educational materials covering 11 key areas, along with a copy of your company's alcohol and drug testing policies and procedures)
• Covers the 6 types of testing required (pre-employment, post-accident, random, reasonable suspicion, return-to-duty, and follow-up)
• Features scenarios that go through alcohol and drug testing processes and procedures
• Emphasizes why drivers must comply with the alcohol and drug testing requirements

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Drivers, Drugs & Drinking

Program uses a dynamic, eye-opening documentary style to hold viewer interest and cover this important subject. The video's powerful credibility comes from veteran drivers who share their own real-life experiences. The presentation includes commentary from respected professionals in the transportation and medical industries who understand the issues involved ... and know how to make those issues clear to drivers.

Approaches critical issues every driver must be made aware of, such as:  

• The devastating effects that drugs and alcohol have on the driver and the driver's career
• The often tragic consequences of abuse
• DOT regulations that affect drivers, and how to comply

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Substance Abuse for Supervisors and Employees

Takes a proactive approach to training your employees and supervisors to avoid the high costs of increased absences, errors, near-miss incidents and accidents caused by impaired personnel.  Program can be used to satisfy the drug and alcohol training for supervisors and employee education components of a comprehensive drug- and alcohol-free workplace program.

Supervisor training covers:

• The importance of understanding and consistently enforcing your company's substance abuse policy
• The elements of a comprehensive substance abuse policy
• Reasonable suspicion and recognizing observable behaviors that may mean an employee is impaired by alcohol and/or drugs
• Scenarios that illustrate procedures for confronting an employee who may be impaired
• Common alcohol and drug testing procedures
• The signs, symptoms and effects of substance abuse

Employee Training Covers:

• The elements of a comprehensive substance abuse policy
• The importance of understanding the company's substance abuse policy.
• Scenarios that illustrate how an employee's knowledge of the company's substance abuse policy can help them avoid awkward situations and protect their workplace from the dangers of substance abuse
• The signs, symptoms and effects of substance abuse

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Hang Up & Drive: The Jacy Good Story

This dynamic program features Jacy Good and her fiancee Steve recalling the tragic crash that killed her parents as a result of another driver using his cell phone. In May 2008, Jacy and her parents were enjoying a great day of accomplishment...Jacy's college graduation. That day was shattered, however, when a devastating collision took the lives of Jacy's parents and left her in a coma. Her brain injury has left her with physical, speech, and cognitive impairments, but Jacy's story is an inspiration. Help viewers recognize the real dangers of texting, cell phones and other distractions while driving. Understand that crashes such as Jacy’ devastate the lives of many more people than those who are involved in the crash. Accept the fact that crashes involving cell phone use are preventable. Take specific steps to avoid cell phone use while driving that will start to change the safety culture of driving. Recognize that each of us is responsible for our safe driving behavior. 

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"The Critical Point & Reversing the Trend": Small Vehicle Version

This is a two-part presentation that can be viewed in one or two sessions. Part One introduces our time-tested 5 Keys and explores ways drivers unknowingly relinquish control over their own safety. This powerful knowledge provides the critical thinking needed in Part Two for viewers to participate in analyzing, from an aerial view, common driving patterns that expose motorists to unnecessary risks. “The Critical Point” video offers those new to the “Smith System” an unparalleled insight into their daily traffic surroundings, while refreshing and enhancing the safety knowledge of the veteran user.

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Supervisor Alcohol Training-A Clean Slate (Confessions of an Addict)

Our Award Winning production A Clean Slate completes your FMCSA supervisor drug training  This video/DVD is 60 minutes in length and is used in conjunction with your drug testing program as mandated by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Your supervisors will gain valuable knowledge from this series for use in the workplace to help distinguish signs and symptoms of drug users.  This updated version also includes the newest changes to the regulations in regard to what a donor can expect in a direct observation test situation.  To complete your FMCSA mandated training see our alcohol training series.

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Electrical Safety for Everyone

Electricity is essential to our everyday lives. With that being said, it's surprising that many of us know very little about it or the hazards it presents. Many workers don't understand the dangers of electricity and don't follow safe work practices when working with or around electricity or electrical equipment.  You don't have to be a qualified electrical worker or electrician to have a need to understand electrical safety.  In fact, all workers should know and practice basic electrical safety.

• How electricity works and why it is dangerous.
• How resistance relates to the flow of electricity and Ohm's law.
• What the two concepts of electrical safety are.
• How employees can avoid contacting energized conductors.
• How grounding, double-insulated tools and GFCI’s protect workers from electric shock.
• How to respond to a shock event.

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Fire Extinguishers: How and When

This program stresses to viewers the importance of making the right decisions when a workplace fire breaks out. In order to use a portable fire extinguisher to put out the fire, employees must determine the type of material burning and class of fire present, if they know how to use the appropriate fire extinguisher and if the fire is in its beginning stages. Specific situations where it would be unsafe to use a fire extinguisher to put out a fire. The four classes of fire and the types of extinguishers used to put them out. The importance of becoming familiar with the extinguishers in your work area. The PASS system and other firefighting procedures. 

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Sonoma County/Operational Area Mass Transportation/Evacuation Plan

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Sonoma County/Operational Area Tsunami Response Plan

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Designed to Work: Office Ergonomics Toolkit

Resource DVD for conducting an Ergonomic Self-Assessment of your workstation.

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Office Ergonomics - Customizable Written Program/PowerPoint Presentation

This exciting program addresses ergonomics issues from the perspective of your employees. Focusing on ergonomically correct body positions, this program offers solutions for how to compensate for workstation limitations and create a healthier and stress-free work environment for your employees.

You Will Learn:

• Healthy Work Habits
• Stretching and Relaxation Activities
• Proper Body Mechanics and Movement
• Simple Ways to Adjust Workstations to Prevent Discomfort and Injury

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Out of the Office: Ergonomics for the Mobile Worker

When we work in a typical office, we have the advantage of ergonomically adjustable office equipment and furniture. But when we rely on laptops, tablets and smartphones in settings that range from coffee shops to hotel rooms to our kitchen table, we need to be aware of what we can do to create our own comfortable work environment.

This program discusses posture and how it impacts the proper use of mobile office equipment, the special challenges it presents and the importance of positioning and moving our bodies as we work. 

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Principles of Office Ergonomics

This exciting program addresses ergonomics issues from the perspective of your employees. Focusing on ergonomically correct body positions, this program offers solutions for how to compensate for workstation limitations and create a healthier and stress-free work environment for your employees.

You Will Learn:

• Healthy Work Habits
• Stretching and Relaxation Activities
• Proper Body Mechanics and Movement
• Simple Ways to Adjust Workstations to Prevent Discomfort and Injury

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Stretching Out at Work

This motivational video helps reduce workplace injuries by demonstrating stretching and warm up exercises on the job. Your employees will learn why it is important to stretch before, during and after working to maintain a healthy body.

Program Highlights:

• Provides reasons to stretch
• Demonstrates stretching techniques
• Proper body mechanics

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Stretchware - The Software that Reminds You to STRETCH!

If you work at a computer there is a good chance you will eventually suffer from carpal tunnel syndrome, along with back pain, stiff muscles, tight joints, tension and stress. Every day millions of workers feel the aches and pains brought on by long hours while sitting at a desk using a computer.

To address and combat the growing problem of workplace injuries, OSHA has recommended taking stretching breaks — a simple activity that can make you feel better. However, most people will not make the time to take a stretching break – they need to be reminded to stretch.

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Take Five: Lifting/Ergonomics/Stretching/Sitting/Standing

This five part series covers sitting, standing, stretching, ergonomics and lifting. Using a unique “talk show” format, each segment focuses on the individual topic so employees are able to give the topic their full attention. After each segment, there are creative commercials to drive home the key points of injury prevention.

 Each of the five segments addresses a different topic in various work environments:

• Module 1: Lifting – Warehouse
• Module 2: Warehouse Ergonomics
• Module 3: Stretching – Office Cubicle
• Module 4: Sitting - Office Cubicle
• Module 5: Standing – Manufacturing Setting

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Understanding Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)

Implement an effective and comprehensive system for identifying and reducing the risk of MSDs in your workplace. MSDs are defined, the signs, symptoms and risk factors are identified and early reporting of MSDs is stressed. With the average total cost of a Musculoskeletal Disorder injury rising to over $10,000, you can't afford to ignore aches and pains in your workplace. This all-new program is designed to educate you on how to implement an effective and comprehensive system for identifying and reducing the risk of MSDs in your workplace. The program emphasizes the importance of early reporting of MSDs so that employee reports of pain or discomfort can be addressed simply and inexpensively.

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Elevated Work Platform Safety

This live-action program demonstrates safe work practices for operating aerial work platforms, such as: articulating and telescopic boom lifts, scissor lifts, etc. Training and authorization. Fueling and battery charging. Pre-operational inspection of the lift and work area. How to start, drive and park a work platform. Proper procedures for operating the controls. How to raise and lower the platform. How to mount and dismount the platform safely.

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Preventing Slips, Trips & Falls

For most people starting a new job can be confusing and even a bit stressful. There’s a lot to learn ranging from where the break room is to how to sign up for benefits to learning the new job itself. While no one expects a new employee to remember everything right away, it is important to make safety an immediate job priority.

 Ranging from 1 to 6 minutes in length the Program Videos have been broken into individual video modules and may be presented based on the information covered during your Employee Orientation session. You may tailor the training by clicking the topics you need for your employees.

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Surviving the Fall: Your Personal Fall Arrest System

You know what they say, "It’s not the fall that gets you, it’s the sudden stop."  The farther we fall, the more forceful and damaging that sudden stop becomes. In this program, viewers will see fall protection equipment deployed in actual fall events and learn the proper selection and use of these devices. In addition to safe work practices, such as 100% tie-off techniques, emphasis is placed on having a rescue plan in place should a fall occur.

• How to select an approved anchor point.
• How to use and inspect connecting devices.
• How to inspect and put on a body harness properly.
• How to calculate total fall distance and prevent sudden-stop injuries.
• How to use fall-limiting devices properly. 
• How to prevent suspension trauma in the event of a fall.

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The Tallest Tool in the Tool Box: Using Ladders Safely

Every worker, from experienced trade professional to the home handy-person, needs to know how to use their tools to get the job done right. When the job is above the ground, consider the ladder another tool in the tool box that you need to know how to use to get the job done safely. This program reviews the safe work practices that must be followed to avoid injuries while climbing and working on ladders. Topics include selecting the right ladder for the job, ladder inspection, proper ladder setup, ensuring ladder stability, climbing and descending ladders safely and working safely on ladders.

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Close Calls and Near Misses

This program stresses to employees the importance of reporting all close calls and near miss incidents so that proper action can be taken to improve work conditions and prevent injuries. Why it is important to report all close calls and near miss incidents. How emotions and poor attitudes can lead to unsafe acts. How unreported incidents can escalate into more serious situations. What actions can be taken by companies in response to the investigation of a close call.

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In the Line of Fire!

The line separating safety from danger is sometimes quite small. This hazard recognition program discusses many workplace hazards and outlines general principles that can help employees prevent putting themselves In The Line of Fire!

• Dangers presented by the sudden release of tension and gravity.
• Moving machinery and path of travel.
• Flying debris and projectiles.
• Opening and closing energy control devices.
• Being aware of automated equipment and their potential movement.
• Pedestrians and moving vehicles.
• Contact with stationary hazards.
• Observation, job safety analysis and feedback.
   

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Maintaining Your Safety

Maintenance workers maintain all aspects of operations and equipment. They are such an important part of the process that they feel pressure to get all repairs done fast! In this program, maintenance workers learn how to overcome pressure and redouble their efforts to always follow safe work procedures. Also featured are reenactments of common maintenance incidents, testimonials and examples of safe work practices.

Topics Covered in the Presentation:

• Why maintenance workers must overcome pressure to skip safety procedures.
• Why a job hazard analysis should be conducted before beginning a new task.
• Why all LOTO procedures must be followed to control energy sources.
• The responsibilities for those workers who are qualified to do electrical work.
• What precautions employees must take to prevent falls when performing jobs that are above ground level.
• Why we must always choose the proper tools for the job and use them safely.

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Office Injury Prevention

In the fast-paced and sometimes high-stress environment of a busy office, workers sometimes forget about their most important workplace responsibility: their safety. They overlook safety issues because they just don't believe an office has any hazards; yet, nearly 40,000 office workers suffer disabling injuries each year.

This program stresses the importance of office safety and how a good safety attitude and using good judgment are the real keys to injury prevention. Many common office safety issues are discussed, including the safe work practices employees must follow to avoid office injuries. 

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Ready, Willing and Able

Employees being ready, willing and able to give and accept constructive safety feedback is one of the most powerful and effective ways to improve workplace safety. In this unique presentation, Safety Professional Tom Harvey encourages viewers to have the confidence and courage to engage in a constructive safety conversation when a safety problem arises. Why we all should commit to never condone an unsafe act. How to give constructive safety feedback positively and effectively. How to accept feedback by focusing on the conversation rather than making excuses. What some of the common safety conversation pitfalls are and how to rectify them. Why employees should be willing to give feedback to anyone, not just peers and co-workers.

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Safety Decision Making: Overcoming Human Nature

This program, hosted by safety professional Tom Harvey, uses common examples, reenactments and a little humor to explain how humans are tempted to make unsafe choices by succumbing to the instant gratification of shortcuts, risk-taking and peer pressure.  It explains how our safety decision-making process works and provides tips and techniques we can use to overcome our human nature and make safe choices rather than unsafe ones.

Topics Covered in the Presentation:

• Why working safely goes against human nature.
• How various factors affect our decision-making process.
• How positive and negative outcomes of both safe and unsafe actions affect our decisions to repeat those actions.
• What the term “normalized deviation” means and why it is so dangerous.
• How all employees can contribute to a positive safety culture by giving and accepting safety feedback.
   

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Safety Leadership for Everyone

In this program, safety professional Tom Harvey discusses the traits that make a good safety leader. Several true-to-life situations are used to illustrate his points, stressing that all of us can be safety leaders regardless of what job or title we hold. Actions and examples of a good safety leader. Connecting safety messages with actions. How to reinforce safe actions through personal recognition. Disciplining an employee for continued unsafe actions. The importance of "employee-powered" safety.

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Hearing Conservation & You

Follow along as Steve, Jerry and a group of co-workers receive their annual training on hearing conservation.  Steve doesn’t take the issue of hearing loss seriously and continually disregards the need for hearing protection at home and at work.  As time passes, Steve develops the symptoms of hearing loss due to his poor choices regarding hearing protection. Watching the example of Steve’s poor attitude and subsequent hearing loss will convince your employees to protect their hearing at home and at work.

Topics covered in the presentation:

• How noise can damage our hearing.
• How to fit earplugs and earmuffs and the importance of wearing them when harmful noise is present.
• How the medical surveillance program is used to recognize and help prevent employee hearing loss.
• Why it is important to protect hearing when performing off-job activities.
• What the signs and symptoms of hearing loss are.

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Water. Rest. Shade. The Work Can't Get Done Without Them. 

OSHA’s Heat Illness Prevention Campaign aims to remind workers to drink water every 15 minutes and rest in the shade to cool down. 

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Creating Safety in Welding Operations

Welders take pride in their work...after all, their welds are visible for all to see. To avoid injury, welders must also take pride in their safety and make sure safety is also visible for all to see. Every day, welders are confronted with many hazards that can cause serious injury and property damage.  Hot metal, intense light, noxious fumes and heavy equipment are only a few potential dangers these employees can encounter. It is imperative that workers who weld be able to recognize all the hazards of their jobs and know how to control or eliminate them.

Topics Covered in this Presentation:

• How to prevent fires when conducting welding operations.
• What personal protective equipment and protective clothing should be worn by welders.
• How ventilation is used to help welders avoid breathing in unhealthy fumes and gases.
• What types of respirators are used for welding applications.
• How to protect co-workers from injury while welding

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Power and Hand Tool Safety

Protect workers from common everyday hazards created by the use of the hand and power tools with this new product. It features practical, safe application of common hand and power tools, including: electrical, pneumatic, gasoline, power activated, hand, battery operated and hydraulics tools.

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Working Safely with Hand and Power Tools

Hand and power tools have become so common in the daily performance of our jobs that we often become complacent about their dangers. Use this program to emphasize the importance of having a good safety attitude and exercising good judgment while using hand and power tools. The importance of having a good safety attitude when using hand and power tools. What to look for when inspecting tools. Basic safety rules for wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers and striking tools. Basic safety rules for power drills, power saws and battery-powered tools - See more at: http://www.americantrainingresources.com/ptv-208.aspx

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Crystalline Silica Employee Training

Crystalline silica is a naturally occurring substance used in a wide variety of industries and construction operations.  It is also a common additive in food and pharmaceutical applications. While silica has many valuable uses, it can also present a danger when workers are exposed to excessive amounts of crystalline silica dust.  In fact, each year there are hundreds of deaths and thousands of illnesses attributed to harmful exposures to silica dust.  To prevent these types of harmful exposures, OSHA has developed regulations for general industry, maritime operations and the construction industry.

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Respirators: Your Tuberculosis Defense

Two training videos to help protect health care employees from the risk of job-related tuberculosis infection are available together in one package (Pub. No. 2002-114D) from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) as NIOSH's first health and safety training resource in DVD format. The free DVD includes "Respirators: Your Tuberculosis Defense," a training video to educate health care employees about proper respiratory protection against Tuberculosis exposure, and "Tuberculosis Respiratory Protection: Administrator's Review," a companion video that takes health care administrators step-by-step through development of a worker respiratory protection program.  

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Working with Stress

Describes workplace factors that can create or exacerbate worker stress, and suggests practical measures for reducing job-related stress through changes in work organization.

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