Video of flash fire testing at the University of Alberta – one of the best testing facilities in the world. Side by side comparisons of different FR fabrics exposed to flash fires, illustrating the extent, severity and location of burns.
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This U.S. Department of Labor video posted in June 2012 shows art restoration experts cleaning on large murals that have decorated the lobby of the DOL headquarters building in Washington, D.C., since the late 1970s. They depict the history of work in America up until that time.
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This June 2012 video showcases the work done at the Transportation Technology Center Inc. in Pueblo, Colo., a facility owned by the Association of American Railroads. Crash testing of rail equipment and emergency response training for rail personnel in simulated hazmat spills and derailments are conducted there.
To compare the impact strength and post-break performance of glass railing systems, DuPont conducted comprehensive "swing bag" testing of tempered glass and commonly specified laminated glass in varying thicknesses and structural systems.
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There's a most unusual gym in ecologist Sonia Altizer's lab at the University of Georgia in Athens. The athletes are monarch butterflies, and their workouts are carefully monitored to determine how parasites impact their flight performance. With support from the National Science Foundation, Altizer and her team study how animal behavior, including long-distance migration, affects the spread and evolution of infectious disease. In monarchs, the researchers study a protozoan parasite called Ophryocystis elektroscirrha ("OE"). Up to 2 billion monarchs migrate every year to central Mexico, where Altizer and her colleagues capture, sample, and release hundreds of butterflies each day during their field study. Their work is providing some details on the differences in how diseases spread in human and animal populations. Vampire bats may not have the beauty factor that monarch butterflies do, but the bats are important in Altizer's study of how the spread of infectious diseases by animals is affected by human activities. In Peru, University of Georgia postdoctoral researcher Daniel Streicker focuses on these bats, whose populations have exploded in recent years. Ranchers have introduced livestock into the Andes and the Amazon. More bloodthirsty bats might mean more rabies. Streicker and Altizer say that the results of this study will improve rabies control efforts in Latin America, where vampire bats cause most human and livestock cases.
Wind turbines today are truly revolutionizing energy generation across the globe. Learn how Dow is helping create lighter, stronger, and longer turbine blades that are helping to harness more energy than ever.
Experts in this new U.S. Chemical Safety Board video define inherently safer design and illustrate how it can be implemented. The video focuses in part on the Bayer CropScience explosion in Institute, W.Va., in August 2008 and also discusses the natural gas explosion at the Kleen Energy Systems LLC plant as it was being constructed in Middletown, Conn., in February 2010.
This NIOSH February 2012 video targets one of the most dangerous activities in the oil & gas extraction industry: the drilling rig move. Such a move includes all of the activities involved in disconnecting and disassembling an oil and gas drilling rig and its components, loading all of the equipment onto trucks, transporting the equipment to the next well site, and reassembling and reconnecting the rig and its components. During a rig move, there are dozens of workers and vehicles at the well site, resulting in what is referred to as "controlled chaos." This video features workers identifying the major hazards encountered during a rig move and describing ways to avoid them.
The use of workers speaking in their own words makes this product compelling to oil and gas extraction workers. NIOSH did not use a script or solicit specific responses from the workers; all of the workers' comments are their own. Three companies provided access to their work sites and workers for the development of the video. NIOSH distributed nearly 1,500 copies of the video within six weeks of its release. The International Association of Drilling Contractors also agreed to market the video to its members, on its website, and at national meetings and conferences.