CSB Nabs Award for Safety Video YouTube ChannelCSB Nabs Award for Safety Video YouTube Channel

The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) received a Silver Play Button award from YouTube, which recognized the CSB for having more than 100,000 subscribers for the agency’s YouTube channel @USCSB.  

The CSB’s YouTube channel, which features the agency’s highly successful safety videos, currently has 364,000 subscribers and continues to grow. Powder & Bulk Solids shares many of the chemical explosion and other safety videos.

The CSB’s safety video program is an important tool to enhance public safety, protect workers and communities, and inform the chemical industry of ways to help prevent catastrophic chemical accidents. The agency’s YouTube channel has been an efficient and effective way for the agency to share the many important findings and safety lessons from the CSB’s investigations to a very large audience.
“The CSB’s safety video program has been an extraordinarily successful way for the agency to provide critical information to a very wide audience of safety managers and workers at chemical facilities across the country, as well as stakeholders, government officials, and the public at large. The CSB’s safety video channel has more subscribers than the YouTube channels for even some of the very large, more well-known government agencies," said Shauna Lawhorne, who oversees the CSB’s safety video program.

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Since 2007, when the CSB launched the agency’s YouTube channel, the CSB has released nearly 100 safety videos that have received over 65 million combined views. Some of the most widely viewed videos include: Blowout in Oklahoma (3.7 million views) about the January 2018 blowout and fire at the Pryor Trust gas well in Pittsburg County, OK, that killed five workers; The Danger of Popcorn Polymer (3.3 million views) about the November 2019 explosions and fires at the TPC Group Chemical Plant in Port Neches, TX, which seriously injured three workers and caused $450 million in on-site property damage and $150 million in off-site property damage to nearby homes and businesses; and Fatal Exposure: Tragedy at DuPont (3.2 million views) about three incidents that occurred over a 33-hour period at the Dupont plant in Belle, WV, in January 2010, one of which fatally injured an employee.