A warning, though in comic style, that pure oxygen is a hazard, and a serious one, when handled without care in hospitals and elsewhere. Charlie, a hospital orderly, creates havoc just in moving a cylinder from storeroom to bedside. The film demonstrates how oxygen makes substances more combustible, even so unlikely a material as steel wool. A film for staff training wherever oxygen is used.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
001925
Language
English
Subject categories
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Industrial safety
Agriculture, Business, Commerce & Industry → Management
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Employees - Training of
Education, Instruction, Teaching & Schools → Safety education
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Employees - Health programs
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hazardous substances
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Hospitals - Safety measures
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Laboratories - Safety measures
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Chemical reactions
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Chemicals - Safety measures
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Laboratories - Safety measures
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)