Uploaded March 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago
This is a short clip from the video of the December 2, 2009 honoring of Stephen M. Levin, MD with the international Collegium Ramazzini’s prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in New York. To learn more about careers and training in occupational medicine, visit the websites of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) at aoec.org/index.htm and the Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) at aoec.org/ohip/. AOEC is a network of more than 60 clinics and more than 250 individuals committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental medicine through information sharing and collaborative research. OHIP helps to train a new generation of occupational health professionals through paid internships.
This entire video , Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Collegium Ramazzini's Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in 2009.(57 minutes) can be viewed at youtu.be/N5-H15WH8Qs : “This prestigious award is given periodically to a scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers’ health and the environment,” explained Dr. Philip Landrigan in presenting the award, which has been conferred only five times in the academy’s 27-year history.
Dr. Levin (1941 - 2012) was an internationally known expert in occupational medicine and asbestos related disease and Dr. Levin is the longtime medical director of the Mount Sinai- Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and prior director of the World Trade Center medical monitoring and treatment programs. He was Professor of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated in 1967 from the New York University School of Medicine. After a decade of practice in General Medicine in Pennsylvania, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. He was Co-Director of the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided medical assessments, diagnostic referrals and occupational health education for over 20,000 workers and volunteers who performed rescue and recovery work at the WTC site. He served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Data and Coordination Center for the federally funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program that provides repeat examinations for the WTC responder cohort. Dr. Levin also served on the Science Advisory Board for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). ADAO created a short memorial video tribute to Dr. Levin which can be seen at youtu.be/kMu-lNHNt-o . For more information about the Collegium Ramazzini, visit their website at collegiumramazzini.org/index.asp. To learn more about the good work of the Mt Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, go to their website at mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/occupational-health . Thanks to Dr. Levin's wife, Robin Dintiman, for providing this video and allowing it to be posted.
This is a short clip from the video of the December 2, 2009 honoring of Stephen M. Levin, MD with the international Collegium Ramazzini’s prestigious Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in New York. To learn more about careers and training in occupational medicine, visit the websites of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics (AOEC) at aoec.org/index.htm and the Occupational Health Internship Program (OHIP) at aoec.org/ohip/. AOEC is a network of more than 60 clinics and more than 250 individuals committed to improving the practice of occupational and environmental medicine through information sharing and collaborative research. OHIP helps to train a new generation of occupational health professionals through paid internships.
This entire video , Stephen Levin, MD, honored with the Collegium Ramazzini's Irving J. Selikoff Memorial Award in 2009.(57 minutes) can be viewed at youtu.be/N5-H15WH8Qs : “This prestigious award is given periodically to a scientist or humanist whose studies and achievements have contributed to the protection of workers’ health and the environment,” explained Dr. Philip Landrigan in presenting the award, which has been conferred only five times in the academy’s 27-year history.
Dr. Levin (1941 - 2012) was an internationally known expert in occupational medicine and asbestos related disease and Dr. Levin is the longtime medical director of the Mount Sinai- Irving J. Selikoff Center for Occupational & Environmental Medicine and prior director of the World Trade Center medical monitoring and treatment programs. He was Professor of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Preventive Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He graduated in 1967 from the New York University School of Medicine. After a decade of practice in General Medicine in Pennsylvania, he came to Mount Sinai to receive his training in Occupational Medicine. Following completion of his training, he joined the Mount Sinai faculty. He spent the remainder of his career at Mount Sinai, rose through the academic ranks and was promoted to full Professor in 2011. He was Co-Director of the WTC Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which provided medical assessments, diagnostic referrals and occupational health education for over 20,000 workers and volunteers who performed rescue and recovery work at the WTC site. He served as Principal Investigator and Director of the Data and Coordination Center for the federally funded WTC Medical Monitoring Program that provides repeat examinations for the WTC responder cohort. Dr. Levin also served on the Science Advisory Board for the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO). ADAO created a short memorial video tribute to Dr. Levin which can be seen at youtu.be/kMu-lNHNt-o . For more information about the Collegium Ramazzini, visit their website at collegiumramazzini.org/index.asp. To learn more about the good work of the Mt Sinai Selikoff Centers for Occupational Health, go to their website at mountsinai.org/patient-care/service-areas/occupational-health . Thanks to Dr. Levin's wife, Robin Dintiman, for providing this video and allowing it to be posted.


![Grain Elevator Dust Explosions c1980 OSHA
This was clipped from the video, Safety and Health Hazards in Grain Elevators, produced by OSHA about 1980, to help train OSHA inspectors investigating grain elevators. The entire video is posted to my YouTube channel. Catastrophic grain explosions in the late 1970s killing more than 60 workers and Federal USDA grain inspectors, focused national attention on hazards associated with the grain handling industry. This increased attention by the government, the grain industry and labor unions representing grain workers, led to safety improvements in the industry. The four factors that must be present in any explosive situation are well known and provide a useful framework for thinking about ways to eliminate explosions in grain elevators. The four factors are: fuel source in this case, grain dust. oxygen. ignition source. confinement (a condition that contributes to turning a fire into an explosion). Any measure proposed to reduce the incidence of grain dust explosions must effect changes in at least one of these four factors. In 1979, a General Accounting Office (GAO) report, Grain Dust Explosions An Unsolved Problem (http://www.gao.gov/products/HRD-79-1 ), investigated the grain dust explosion disasters of December 1977 and January 1978 and potential ways to prevent similar disasters. In this report, the GAO recommended that the U.S. Department of Labor evaluate the adequacy of its regulations to prevent grain elevators explosions. In 1987, OSHA issued its Grain Handling Facilities Standard (29 CFR 1910.272), which set mandatory minimum safety standards which maintains these improvements resulting in a 70% decrease in fatalities from grain explosions. On average, the Grain Handling Facilities Standard has prevented 5 deaths from explosions each year, according to the 2003 Regulatory Review of OSHAS Grain Handling Facilities Standard [29 CFR 1910.272] (https://www.osha.gov/dea/lookback/grainhandlingfinalreport.html ). The video was copied from the U.S. National Archives at College Park, Maryland. Grain Elevator Dust Explosions c1980 OSHA](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRstLU9v3gg/mqdefault.jpg)







