The YouTube channel @uscsb, which contains the security videos of the agency, now has 365,000 subscribers. The CSB recently received a Silver Play button Award from YouTube for more than 100,000 subscribers, the board said on February 14th.
The CSB is an independent board of directors of the federal government that examines industry chemicals and examines security recommendations for companies, industrial organizations, unions and supervisory authorities, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the occupational safety authority (OSHA), security recommendations. The CSB does not issue quotes for regulatory violations or impose any fines. The board members are appointed by the President and are subject to confirmation of the Senate.
The CSB uses its YouTube channel to inform the public and chemical industry about opportunities to prevent catastrophic chemical accidents, and it was a way to exchange knowledge and security lessons from their investigation.
“The CSB's security video program was an extremely successful opportunity for the agency to provide a very wide audience of security managers and workers in chemical institutions across the country, as well as stakeholders, government officials and the public in the entire company. Shauna Lawhorne, which supervises the security video program of the CSB, said in a board declaration. “The CSB's safety video channel has more subscribers than the YouTube channels for some of the very large, more well-known government agencies.”
The CSB launched its YouTube channel in 2007 and published almost 100 security videos, with over 65 million combined views being received.
The videos of the board contained:
- “Blowout in Oklahoma” (3.7 million views) about the blowout and the fire in January 2018 in the Pryor Trust Gas in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, where five workers were killed;
- “The danger of the popcorn polymer” (3.3 million views) on the explosions and fires in November 2019 in the chemical plant of the TPC group in Port Neches, Texas, the three workers seriously injured and $ 450 million in property damage and $ 150 Millions of US dollars of $ 450 million caused property damage outside the location in nearby houses and companies; And
- “Fatal exposure: tragedy at Dupont” (3.2 million views) over three incidents that occurred in January 2010 over a period of 33 hours at the Dupont work in Belle, West Virginia, one of which fatally injured an employee.
One of the most respected videos of the board, “Weckruf: Refinery catastrophe in Philadelphia”, received over 1 million views in the first 9 days after his publication. The video about the fire, explosions and the toxic hydrofluoric acid release at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, received a Silver Telly Award, as well as the video “Simultaneous Tragedy: Fire at evergreen Packaging”.
The video of the board about the fatal fire in the Evergreen Packaging Paper Mill in Canton, North Carolina, examined the dangers of Simultaneous Operations (Simops). Simops contains tasks that are carried out by several teams at the same time in the same place. While Simops performed can cause dangers that represent the employees who carry out their assigned tasks, and those who work on tasks that are not related to tasks.