“ MAN AND HIS HABITS ” BUREAU OF MINES MINE & MINERAL INDUSTRY WORKER SAFETY FILM XD38434

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This 1970s color film from The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Mines and Mineral Industries offers a brief but helpful reminder on the role that established habits play in developing good safety standards both at work and at home. Reenactments of common overexertion and convenience-based workplace injuries are provided along with tips for correcting negligent coworkers (TRT: 12:39). Miners exit a shaft elevator wearing overalls and hardhats with headlamps. Engineers at an outdoor power plant. Heavy machinery at an excavation site (0:10). An injured man in a work uniform lies flat on his back. Coworkers attempt to move his injured body. A sign near a rack of hardhats: “Caution: Hard Hat Area” (0:26). The logo of the Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines and Mineral Industries with a seal: “Safety, Efficiency” (0:38). Opening titles: “Man and His Habits.”