Health and Safety at Work for Enfield
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Health and Safety at Work for Enfield
A selection of do's and don'ts structure this informative and amusing guide to Health & Safety within a library setting.
This film is from Enfield Local Studies Library and Archive, a member of the London's Screen Archives Network.
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Health & Safety at Work
Work can be a matter of life and death. Explore how video helped spread the gospel of ‘Elf’n’Safety’ and improved Britain’s workplaces
As employers and government grew gradually but increasingly conscious of responsibilities towards the wellbeing of staff at work, so grew the role of film in the workplace. The moving image, with its emotional power and its ability to stick in the memory (especially when resorting to graphic imagery), was well placed to help get key health and safety messaging across both to employees, exhorted to follow safe practices, and to employers and managers encouraged to make conditions as safe as possible (or at least, as safe as the law requires of them).
And when things go wrong, the filmmaker may be there to help pick up the pieces, documenting or dramatising the consequences. In the era of videotape cameras and videotape viewing, late in the 20th century, the role of film in ‘Elf’n’Safety’ only grew bigger. This collection explores how it did it
16 videos in this collection
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: In a Kitchen
2
Disability Discrimination Act: Act Now
4
First Aid in the Laboratory: Chemical Spillages
5
Make Health Your Business
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Health and Safety at Work for Enfield
12
Fire Service Demonstrate House Fire
13
Pointers To Good Safety Management: Caring Occupations
14
Pointers To Good Safety Management: Equestrian Work
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: In a Garage
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Pointers To Good Safety Management: On a Farm
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