Video Library: Hazardous Waste Site Cleanup

Decon
Monitoring Airborne Contaminants
Superfund Risk Assessment and How You Can Help: An Overview
Tightrope
Toxicology

• Decon
  #DE002 (17 min. 1992)
  Occupational
  Decon provides an explanation and step-by-step demonstration of the accepted principles and procedures for decontamination. It shows how to limit the spread of contaminants, illustrates decon protocol for various levels of personal protective equipment, demonstrates decontamination tools, shows what to do with reusable items, examines contamination reduction zones and explores the application of decon principles to large and small work areas. Presented for all to see the contamination substance, viewers watch as one careless worker goes from work to home and his family, contaminating everything in his path and causing a chain reaction of contamination.
• Monitoring Airborne Contaminants
  #MO005 (10 min. 1993)
  Occupational
  This video covers: measuring direct reading versus lab analysis, advantages and limitations of on-site direct readings; four types of site monitoring and their purposes and information derived; and personal monitoring and exposure variables.
• Superfund Risk Assessment and How You Can Help: An Overview
  #SU011 (11 min.)
  Hazardous waste
  This video discuses EPA's superfund assessment process and how individuals can get involved in the process. The four phases discussed are: data collection and evaluation, exposure assessments, toxicity assessment and risk characterization.
• Tightrope
  #TI001 (12 min. 1992)
  Occupational
  This video presents an informative and motivational look at the common nonchemical, physical hazards often encountered by hazardous waste workers. It illustrates how to recognize potentially dangerous situations and avoid safety hazards such as slips, falls, electrical hazards, natural hazards, oxygen deficiency and heat stress. It urges workers to take special precautions to allow for limited mobility and communication when wearing personal protective equipment.
• Toxicology
  #TO002 (10 min. 1995)
  Occupational
  Defines toxicology, toxin and toxicity, dose versus concentration, parts per million, acute versus chronic toxicity, TLV (threshold limit value), time weighted average, skin notations, ceilings, and short-term exposure limits.