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>> The NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Program visits workplaces across the country to find out if hazards pose a risk to workers' health. We offer guidance in how to make workplaces safer. But, what actually happens when we come to a workplace? To answer that question, we brought a camera crew along, on a visit to Cleanlites, an electronics recycler. We want to show you some of our activities, and let you hear from the employer and employees, about their experience with us. In this video, you'll learn about a test for measuring the amount of harmful materials in workers' bodies.

>> My name's Elena Page, and I'm an occupational and environmental medicine physician. I've been with the HHE program for 18 years as a medical officer. So, here at Cleanlites, we're doing a variety of medical tests, we're doing urine sampling and blood sampling for two broad groups of things, metals and flame retardants. Under the category of metals, we did burden blood analyses, we're looking for lead, but we're also doing a metal here, a rare earth metal, called indium, and indium is used on the backside of flat screen monitors.

>> I'm reminded of my military days, when I was in the military and I had to do my drug test every month, yeah.

>> I'm drinking more water. Other than that, it's ok.

>> It's alright with me, I've given blood before.

>> For me, yes, with these veins I got, they love to see me come in here. 

>> This is the second health hazard evaluation that I have done here at Cleanlites, and one of the reasons that we have been able to come back so frequently is because of the management here. They're very open, very interested in safety of the employees, and have been so since the very beginning of their opening the company. When we first came in here, in the very beginning a couple of years ago, they had a very, very small production run and were not using their shredder frequently. And now, they've increased, and they wanted us back because of how dedicated they are to the health and safety of their employees.

>> Knowing that they took initiative to call, having done that, that just lets me know that they care about their employees.

>> I have a great amount of respect for what they're doing. I understand what they're doing because in this type of field there could be a lot of hazardous materials.

>> I feel good because it makes me know that my superiors are caring about my own health and my life, so.

>> In central management it's a great experience, because it lets our employees know that we're doing this for them. We're working together with our employees for their safety.

>> The thing I love about working for the Health Hazard Evaluation Program is that we get to see a lot of different things. We're sort of the cutting edge, so we get into things a lot of times people recognize them as a hazard, or the workers will recognize a problem, or occasionally an employer, and they'll ask us to come in, so we can help figure that out, and we're able to make recommendations that will make an immediate impact on the workers in either that work area, or the whole company, and then again in other, similar workplaces across the country. 

>> It's your health. It's your life. You should be able to know what's going on, and how to deal with it if it affects you. You should know that, that should be everybody's right. I think every job should do this. Every job.

>> Find out if there are health hazards at your job. Request a health hazard evaluation from NIOSH.

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