International Industry Award Winning Biosafety Video
I designed, directed, and produced this safety video that won a first place award from the American Biological Safety Association.
How to Properly Operate a Biosafety Cabinet (BSC) was created for laboratory personnel performing research with highly toxic, biohazardous substances. I wrote the script, co-created the storyboards, co-directed, filmed all the footage, and recorded and voice acted the entire narrative.
Our challenge was to get laboratory personnel to create and maintain the maximum amount of vacuum inside a BSC to safely clear away viruses and other biohazards floating in the air as they worked. They needed to see how air turbulence could waft deadly particles right into their faces.
After consulting with a team of Biosafety SMEs, our solution was to use smoke to graphically show how controlling airflows and turbulence greatly impacts the safety and effectiveness of the BSC. We also decided that this short, easily accessible eLearning video via youtube, was the most convenient and efficient way to deliver this microtraining to our laboratory personnel. No need to log into an LMS. No need to scroll through a lengthy training. Just click, watch, learn quickly, and get on with the laboratory work tasks needed to be done for the day.
Universal Shop Safety Rules Video
No actors? No video camera? No film set location? No fancy computer programs but the most basic video and audio software?
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No problem.
I made these short video segments using nothing but Storyline 360, Articulate 360's content library, Audacity, and a cheap microphone. While this is NOT at all how I would handle a project with more resources, I do think it showcases what I can do when asked to make more happen using less.
Our challenge was how to get a wide variety of personnel across the entire organization to adopt the Universal Shop Safety rules for many tasks that may not at first appear to be potentially hazardous. An additional challenge was to overcome the general perception that a "shop" was a dingy, saw dust filled room somewhere with powertools, when in reality "shop hazards" are present while painting, sewing, sanding, cutting, etc. no matter where a person might be doing these tasks.
After consulting with Occupational Safety SME's, my solution was to create short videos that relied upon montage and collage techniques to show a diversity of tasks, settings, and roles where shop hazards exist. This would help to visually generalize and broaden the viewer's sense of when and where hazards could exist and how to apply the Universal Shop Safety Rules to their individual job tasks.
