The following health and safety-related videos (VHS and DVD) are available to AMHSA members and associate members. The videos can be used as part of a formal training program or during safety meetings, presentations, worker orientations, etc.
Members may borrow up to 3 videos at a time.
Each title is followed by a short description, running time, and catalogue number.
As of January 1, 2009, there is no charge to borrow a video; however, members are responsible for return shipping. All videos should be returned in one week unless other arrangements have been made. When ordering, please quote the video's catalogue number (e.g. AMHSA #10). Contact Lisa, South Office Administrator to order.
AMHSA also has several DVDs available for purchase.
Available Videos
Accident Investigation: The Big Picture
This video includes chapters on gathering information, working with the facts, cause and effect, looking for solutions, and writing accident reports.
All Washed Up
A secondary line of contamination defense in the workplace is the emergency shower and eye-wash unit. Learn how and when to use them. (Note: some U.S. content)
All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV)
While originally designed for recreation, ATV drivers must still know and understand the basic safe operating skills needed to ride them safely.
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Asbestos Awareness: Understanding the Risk
This program provides an introduction to asbestos and the risks involved in exposure.
Atoms and Molecules
Here is a video that literally gets down to basics - the basics of everything. In this concise and logically formatted program, students discover the fundamental building blocks of the universe: the elements
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Avoid the OH&S Blues: Orientation to Municipal H&S
This DVD is a safety orientation video to help introduce new employees to occupational health and safety.
Backing Safely
Backing is the cause of a large number of collisions. This video offers practical safety information that can help drivers eliminate backing collisions.
Backwise
This comprehensive video training program takes a positive and holistic approach toward back injury prevention.
Bhopal: The Second Tragedy
This video returns to the scene of a devastating chemical disaster in Bhopal, India in 1984.
Big Chill (The)
Hypothermia occurs when the temperature of the body's inner core has been lowered sufficiently to cause illness. Hypothermia can strike quickly and silently. If left untreated, hypothermia can eventually lead to death. (Note: some U.S. content)
Blood Borne Pathogens In the Workplace
Diseases which are transmitted from person to person by an exchange of blood or body fluids are becoming a bigger problem in the workplace.
Cancer Story: What is Cancer?
This episode in the Cancer Story series provides a primer on how cancer begins and grows.
Chainsaw Maintenance and Safety
A potentially dangerous piece of equipment used on many municipal work sites is the chainsaw.
Chemical Handling Safety: The Basics
In this video the basics of chemical handling are covered, including hazard identification, personal protection, and emergency response.
Child's Play - Kids do it… naturally
This is an enjoyable video, examining proper manual lifting techniques.
Confined Spaces - Deadly Spaces
This video is designed for municipal workers, and illustrates the basic rules for working in confined spaces
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Defensive Driving: A Crash Course
This video presents the basics of defensive driving.
Defensive Driving: Prepared for the Worst
This video, which includes bonus DVD-rom features, covers driving in fog, snow, ice, and rain, night driving, breakdown basics, additional hazard (e.g. large trucks), and personal security.
Egress/Exit Safety
What a way to die. What if your building has emergency exits, but you can't escape disaster because you can't exit safely? Three key points are covered: obstructions, exit doors, and how to exit safely. (Note: some U.S. content)
Electrical Safety in The Workplace
Electricity is something that is around us much of the time and that many of us take for granted.
Ergonomics - The Practical Approach
Ergonomics is an approach for looking at people, the equipment they use and the physical environment they work in so that improvements can be made in personal well being, performance and short and long term health and safety.
Essential Elements of Hand Safety (The)
Have you ever stopped to consider how important your hands are in your everyday activities?
Excavations: A Guide to Safe Work Practices
This 22 minute video demonstrates the common hazards associated with excavations, plus the procedures for preparingand working in a trench
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Fall Protection: It's No Game!
This video introduces many of the falling hazards on residential construction work sites and suggests ways to avoid them. Danger zones are identified, and conventional safety systems are examined.
Fire Awareness
An important step in the development and implementation of a fire prevention and control program is to increase general awareness about fires.
Forklift Safety
One of industry's most useful tools, and potentially the most dangerous, is the forklift
Formal Workplace Inspections
The tips in this video will start you on your way to developing a strong inspection program that will become part of your organization's approach to safety.
Harassment: Keeping it Out of the Workplace
This video uses humour and role play to provide examples of workplace harassment.
Hazard Recognition and Control
This video covers what causes accidents, questions to ask, unsafe conditions and acts, horseplay on the job, risk assessment, controlling hazards, actions and consequences, teamwork, and responsibilities.
Hazardous Atmospheres and Respirators
We need air to breathe. When the quality of the air is inadequate, we may need to use respirators. If this is the case, we need to know how to use them properly!
Heads Up. Work Smart. Work Safe.
Young worker safety awareness
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Health and Safety on the Job
Strike Out Injuries and The Injury Effect.
Heat Hazards in the Workplace
This video explains the types of heat-related disorders and provides information about how to reduce the risks for workers who must work in hot environments.
Highway Work Zone Safety: The Basics
This video covers being safety conscious and visible, work zone housekeeping, traffic control devices, slowing traffic, detours and closures, communication, drivers, flagging, and pedestrians.
Hot Work Permit
An awareness of the hazards of Hot Work is shown and what you can do to reduce the possibility of accidental fires and explosions. (Note: some U.S. content)
Implementing Safety Accountability
If we really want to reduce injuries, and improve health and safety in the workplace, everyone must have a role, and be held accountable for results. This video explains how that can be accomplished.
Incident Reporting: You Can Save A Life
This video includes reporting all incidents, inspection and identification, assessment and implementation, pro-active safety, and near-misses.
Indoor Air Report
This video helps employees understand what affects the quality of the air they breath—and how your IAQ program helps alleviate problems.
Inspection, Care and Storage of Slings
Failure of a sling or lifting accessory can cause serious, even fatal injuries.
Introducing Safety Accountability
Management is accountable for production and quality. Who is accountable for health and safety?
Investigation of Incidents
In this video, the viewer is taken through a complete incident investigation, outlining the key techniques of interviewing, analyzing information, preparing and submitting reports, and follow-up procedures.
It Doesn't Stack Up
National statistics show that falls from a height are consistently near the top in terms of severity and cost.
Ladder Safety
Q. What do Atilla the Hun, Charlie Chaplin, and a construction worker have in common?
A. They all use ladders in their work.
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Life In The Trenches
This video provides a realistic, up-close look at the various types of trenches and their dangers.
Lighting Up Your Life
How much light is too much, or not enough? A semi-humorous light is cast on the topic of safe lighting tips and techniques. (Note: some U.S. content)
Lockout: A Guide to Safe Work Procedures
This video provides a comprehensive overview on locks used to control energy in machines. Protect your workers from accidents caused by the inadvertent operation of control devices.
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Lost Youth
This video tells the stories of 4 young workers who lost their youth after being injured in workplace incidents.
Making It Work: Joint Health & Safety Committees
This program will be of interest to both management and labour representation whether you're developing a joint health and safety committee or looking to improve the effectiveness of your current committee.
Meltdown
At Chernobyl, the world came as close as it ever has to nuclear disaster.
Mold Awareness
There has been a lot of attention paid to mold recently. What are the concerns?
Mysterious Poison: The History of PCBs
This program explains how PCB compounds have almost irreparably polluted the globe and still threaten future generations.
Near Misses
Near misses are accidents that could have happened, but didn't. Use near misses as a learning tool to help identify sources of potential accidents. (Note: some U.S. content)
Noise Induced Hearing Loss
The objective of this DVD is to explain the major hazard areas associated with noise and to increase awareness of noise issues in the workplace.
Office Safety
Although it may not be obvious, office workers can be exposed to a wide variety of hazards that can have potentially serious consequences.
Office Safety: It's A Jungle in There
This video provides information on your workstation, awareness, stress, additional hazards like fire, and emergency action plans.
On The Right Track
This dynamic presentation presents new employees with information on the importance of lifting safely, wearing personal protective equipment, WHMIS, fire safety, electrical safety and emergency procedures.
Our Immune System
This program uses imagery to describe the battles our immune system wages inside our bodies, showing how it sets up defenses against viral invasion.
Personal Protective Equipment: Win the Race to Safety
In this program, NASCAR star Bobby Labonte compares auto racing dangers with common industrial hazards.
PPE: Don't Start Work Without It
A comprehensive PPE program, covering eye, face, hearing, head, hand and foot protection and other PPE rules.
Precious Time
On October 4, 2001, Cody McNolty was working as a welder's assistant in northern B.C., helping his father refit a log barge. This video documents Cody's story of a confined space rescue that goes tragically wrong.
Pro-Style: The Safe Way for Sanitation Workers
As the reasons that sanitation is a high risk occupation are explained, the viewer follows Bob & Jerry through a "typical" day as a sanitation worker.
Radiation: Origins and Controls
This program considers the average doses of ionizing radiation to which people are subjected in the ordinary course of modern events.
Radiation: Types and Effects
This program considers three aspects of radiation: what ionizing ration is, the harm it can cause, and the risks connected with it compared with the risks encountered in everyday living.
REACH: Recognition, Evaluation, Control of Hazards
REACH is the acronym used to describe the principles of "Recognition, Evaluation and Control of Hazards".
Real Life: Personal Protective Equipment
Your employees encounter daily hazards, but are they dressed up for the occasion? Are they safe?
Recognizing Drug & Alcohol Abuse
This important video program will help supervisors and fellow employees recognize alcoholism and illegal drug abuse in the workplace.
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Right Tool (The)
A tool that's the wrong size or is used in the wrong way won't get the job done and can lead to injury. Learn to select and use the right tool. (Note: some U.S. content)
Safe Operation of Overhead Cranes
This video identifies the steps necessary for the safe and efficient operation of overhead cranes.
Safe-T-Clips
Safe-T-Clips is taken directly from the Construction Safety Training System (CSTS) CD-ROM.
Safety Awareness
It's common sense, teamwork and safe work procedures.
Safety Essentials
This video delivers the message that workplace safety is everybody’s business and is in everyone’s best interest.
Safety is In Your Hands: Professional Flagging on Public & Private Roadways
This video will guide you through the do's and don'ts of professional flagging on public and private roadways.
Safety Orientation: It Takes A Winning Attitude
This video provides information on the following: PPE, back injuries, avoiding slips, trips, and falls, hazard communication, bloodborne pathogens, lockout/tagout, and fire safety.
Safety Orientation: On Alert
This video includes information on slips, trips and falls, back safety, hazard communication, bloodborne pathogens, PPE, lockout/tagout, fire safety, and evacuation.
Scientific Method
This program examines the basic elements of the scientific method.
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Snow Plow Safety: Parking Lots
This video focuses on specific safety issues regarding the plowing of parking lots.
Snow Removal Techniques: Plowing Tips from the Pros
Helps teach snow plowing on city streets, county roads and interstates. Different types of snowplows/snow blowers shown in use on trucks, wheel loaders, and motor graders.
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Stepladders
The stepladder is a simple tool to use, yet many people are injured yearly due to careless or improper usage. Help reduce accidents by following guidelines for safe selection, set-up, and use. (Note: some U.S. content)
Stop it Burning
This video introduces the types of fire extinguishers and how and when they are used.
Supervisor (The) (DVD)
This video is the second in a series of videos for/about young workers by the WCB-BC (see "Lost Youth").
Training the Traffic Control Person
This video provides a good overview of how to perform your job safely when you are a flag person controlling traffic flow through a work zone.
Welding Safety: What You Need to Know
This DVD program discusses the essentials of welding safely with a focus on oxyfuel gass cutting.
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Wheel Loader Operating Techniques
Once you get your loader up and running there are a large number of things that need to be considered to ensure it is operated safely.
Wheel Loader Walk Around and Inspection
One of the most important aspects of operating equipment and wheel loaders is making sure that it is in a condition that allows for its safe operation.
WHMIS Training: Your Safety Net
This video focuses on hazard communication regarding chemicals.
Work Area Protection: A Control for Safety
The program carefully defines the goals of a work area protection program and describes the components involved.
Working Back (The)
This WorkSafeBC produced video talks to municipal workers about back care. The 25 minute video reviews the basic principles of proper lifting techniques and how they apply to typical public works jobs. Also reviewed are several case studies of munici
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