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Superheroes, Cartoons, Apps. and Even Wikipedia
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Superheroes, Cartoons, Apps. and Even Wikipedia
SLIC Thematic Day
Riga, Latvia April 27-28, 2015
Max R. Lum Ed.D., MPA
Senior Consultant, e-Communication and Research Translation, Office of
the Director, NIOSH
8. The Dark Knight Rises
as a Star of PPE
The Blog Post
“You see, our goal here at NIOSH is
to keep heroes (of all varieties) safe
so that they can, in turn, do their jobs
of keeping the world safe. Not all
heroes are equipped with an x-gene
healing factor or impermeable skin.
Therefore, personal protective
equipment (PPE, for those of us who
know hero-lingo) plays a vital role in
protecting those who protect others”.
9. The Amazing PPE of Spider-Man
“Spider-Man is another hero in the
limelight lately, and nobody knows better
than this guy that with great power comes
great responsibility … even to one’s own
safety. Spider-Man swings above the
streets (and stage… see related blog) of
New York at heights that would make most
of us clamp our hands over our eyes and
weep pitifully. According to media footage,
he relies entirely on shooters attached to
his wrists that disperse adhesive
“webbing” of his own technology to protect
him from falls. Unfortunately, NIOSH
engineers haven’t quite figured out Spider-
Man’s secret (yet). So, until web shooters
are available for all workers in danger of
falls from significant heights, we must work
with what we have and use fall protection
harnesses”
19. Are Cartoons Right for
Your Web Content Strategy?
• Do you need to talk
about a complex
issue?
• Design a cartoon to
grab attention and
promote humor
• Tie it into a white
paper, research study
to tap into your
audience
22. The NIOSH Ladder Safety App.
• This new app uses visual and
audio signals to make it easier for
workers using extension ladders to
check the angle the ladder is
positioned at, as well as access
useful tips for using extension
ladders safely. The app is
available for free download for
both iPhone and Android devices.
25. Blogs Drive Search
Pub date BLOG Views
So How Accurate Are These Smartphone Sound Measurement Apps? 1,539
11/17/2014 Intervening for Work Stress: Work-life Stress and Total Worker Health 764
11/18/2014 Motor Vehicle Safety and Law Enforcement Officers 493
11/19/2014 Work-family Conflict, Sleep, and the Heart 442
N95 Respirators and Surgical Masks 300
11/21/2014 First, Do No Harm: Temporary Threshold Shift Screening Is Not Worth the 271
11/20/2014 A Health and Safety Evaluation at an Airline Catering Facility 229
Preventing Back Injuries in Health Care Settings 208
Protecting Workers from Ebola: Eight Knowledge Generation Priorities 186
28. Site Reach: a Comparison
• NIOSH website
– 150,000 web pages
– 8 million visits per year
• Wikipedia
– 3.4 million articles
– 8 million views…per hour
29. Comparison of Hits on Wikipedia
and the NIOSH Web
NIOSH page Views Equivalent
Wiki article
Views
NIOSH home 81,639 NIOSH 2,627
Fire Fighter Fatality 13,826 Firefighter 31,842
Ergonomics & MSD 10,839 Ergonomics 69,664
Bloodborne Infectious Disease 9,384 Blood-borne disease 3,081
Stress at Work 9,219 Workplace stress 5,519
Chemical Safety 3,889 Chemical substance 16,900
Respirators 3,883 Respirator 7,329
NPPTL Lab Site 2,742 Personal protective
equipment
14,034
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40. NIOSH Response
Wikipedain in Residence Activities
• Building a Global coalition
• Improving and increasing
edits to Wikipedia
• Working with the Chemistry
and Medical Wikipedia Groups
• Discussions with WikiMedia
Foundation
• Networking with other
Wikipedia science editors @
“Wikimania”
The promotional leaflet about Napo and its animated films on work safety and health can be now downloaded in 25 European languages.
Napo is the hero of an animated world of work whose silent movies are learning tool about safety and health among people of all ages. The leaflet contains updated selection of the films and contains information about the ‘Napo for teachers’ toolkit.
If we leverage Wikipedia, we inherit its size and audience.
2014, Wikipedia, Facebook, and Twitter had all surpassed OSHA (which had dropped to #24). NIH.gov, at #8, was the new top government referring domain/Last month (another year later almost), OSHA was at #13 (#9 among non-search-engine sites). Wikipedia still reigns supreme