SICUREZZA NEI FILM, FILM PER LA SICUREZZA #workplacesafety #industrialhygiene #corporateculture #workingconditions Working conditions in early 20th century The whole film is interesting for those involved in occupational health but some scenes of this movie are useful also for safety training. The film also allowed me to meet Alice Hamilton, a leading American expert in the field of occupational health and a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology ( ) The fictional character of Bessie Cavallo, the film's protagonist, is inspired by Grace Fryer ( ), who fought and won the battle for the recognition of this occupational disease and for the right to compensation for the harm she suffered.Ī film about a well-known but no less dramatic human and judicial affair that anyone involved in occupational health and safety cannot afford not to know about.Įnriched by valuable, if somewhat invasive, images and videos of the time, including on working conditions, and characterised by some questionable screenplay choices, I liked the film much the final scene with the invocation to Ra taken from the Book of the Dead is really touching, Moore and inspired by this story, is the tale of a group of girls who fought to assert their right to be compensated and to recognise the danger of radium. The film, based on the book 'The Radium Girls' by K. Health problems were often attributed to syphilis, so as to discredit the girls and prevent them from talking about their problems. The US Radium Corporation was one of the companies they worked for and supported by more or less bad faith experts, kept its employees in the dark about the danger of radium even after scientific studies had confirmed it. Many of them, instructed to shape the brush with their lips, became ill and died as a result of exposure to radium radiation. The girls, the dial painters, who hand-painted watch dials went down in history as ‘radium girls’ or ‘ghost girls’, because the radium to which they were exposed made them glow in the dark. One of the many uses of radium, mixed with other substances, was to make watch hands and dials luminescent, for war and other purposes. and how could such a widespread product be dangerous? beauty creams, lipsticks, soaps, cigarettes, chocolate, drinking water, children's wool, were being enriched with radium convinced of its beneficial effects. 100 years ago, 20 years after its discovery by Pierre and Marie Curie, radium was almost universally believed to be a miraculous elixir of health and youth.
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