Library Resources
The ElectriCities Library has resources for members to use free of charge. Videos and DVDs may be checked out for a two-week period. (Please allow sufficient time for your video/DVD to arrive before your safety meeting.)
Several of our newest safety and training DVDs are listed below and may be checked out for a two-week period. Please insure each video for $300 when you return it to the ElectriCities Library. We usually ship via UPS Ground.
(Additional training videos dealing with substations and Linemen/Career Development are available from the Safety & Training and Marketing departments.)
View the entire ElectriCities video catalog in PDF or MS Word.
New DVDs for Summer/Fall 2009
Available to ElectriCities Members
“Back Safety: Proper Lifting Procedures” (DVD 125)
This DVD demonstrates the proper techniques and procedures to protect your back when lifting and moving heavy objects of different sizes and shapes.
“Back Safety: Exercise and Ergonomics” (DVD 126)
This DVD explains how exercise, proper stretching methods, and ergonomics will drastically reduce injuries to the lower back.
“The First Step” (DVD 127)
A young college student who works at a mill during the summers gets comfortable with her environment and takes a shortcut, resulting in a life-changing injury. This DVD stresses that the first step to not being injured is knowing that you can be injured.
“Do It For Me” (DVD 128)
This DVD points out how we tell our kids to take extra safety precautions and don’t even think about our own safety and how it affects us and others.
“Trenching and Shoring Safety” (DVD 129)
This DVD features OSHA’s regulations and cave-in prevention trenches; shoring, sloping, sloping shield installation, screw jacks vs. aluminum hydraulic shooting, and fire department assistance.
“Brian’s Story: You Can Make a Difference” (DVD 130)
This DVD is about a mill worker’s son who was killed on a construction job. If someone had intervened and offered him safety advice, the man would be alive today.
“What is Your Excuse?” (DVD 131)
This DVD is about how we make excuses for not being safe and how that places us in dangerous situations.
“Billy Robbins Hooked On Safety: ‘My World’” (DVD 132)
This DVD is about how you can take every safety precaution and still get seriously injured in a non-accident free work place.
“Heat Stress” (DVD 133)
This DVD teaches workers how to protect themselves. Working in hot environments with strenuous physical activity causes heat reactions in the body. Includes first-aid for heat stress and stroke.