Have you ever been scared of accidents in the work place?  Well here in Ontario, the WSIB (Workplace Safety and Insurance Board) want you to be extra careful so they have recently started airing these commercials that you just have to see, and you still won't believe it

*Warning:  Graphic Content*

WSIB: The Chef
WSIB: The Fall
WSIB: Family Guy
The Forklift
WSIB: The Funeral

Can you believe they actually air those on TV? :o

About the same as some of the British 'Play Safe' ads from years ago

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=30816.0

i think they're kickass. but if i had kids i might feel differently, that stuff'll give the youngsters nightmares. :o

I gotta call BS on the forklift one. I drive a forklift at my job and they all have steel cages to protect us should anything fall on us. As far as I know, pretty much all forklifts have these cages now.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Toyota_forklift.jpg/800px-Toyota_forklift.jpg
 
And we don't even stack freight overhead like they do at the warehouse in the commercial. If anything, the guy who got impaled by the rebar should've reamed his boss for being too much of a cheapass to buy new forklifts.

On the other hand, the chef one was just BRUTAL.  :o :o :o

i think the one that freaks me out the most is the ladder one. when i first saw that i was like, play, PWNED!!!, wince, rewind, play, PWNED!, wince, rewind, play...

i think the one that freaks me out the most is the ladder one. when i first saw that i was like, play, PWNED!!!, wince, rewind, play, PWNED!, wince, rewind, play...


I dunno, that chef ad was a bit too much, I can see where that would really freak kids out.

Gezus, I feel like I'm back in shop class in high school...just as disturbing as the "safety" films we had to watch about using shop tools, and just about as graphic. :o

I almost feel bad for people who have to work these jobs, I work at a call center for a cosmetics company. The most I have to worry about is getting an ear-ache from some upset mom complaining about receiving the wrong color lipstick. ::)

I think they are somewhat too graphic for TV....but they usually air them, especially the one with the guy with the busted harness late at night. I was watching TV last night around 11:30pm and that is when it aired. And the night before, it aired around 11:00pm.

the effects are really amazing, particularly on the falling off the ladder one. it just looks 100 percent real. ugh.

These shouldn't be on television, but they should be required for safety courses, and a course in safety should be required in just about every job.  This is tough to look at, but it happens, and it is tougher if it is for real. I have to add I work in construction.  Knock on wood I haven't been on a job when there has been an real bad accident, but I know 2 guys who died, one was cut in half by the counterweight of a crane against its track, one who fell off a building because he didn't attach his safety harness. I know a lot of guys who know many more people who have been killed or horribly injured in many different ways.  Anything to keep people on there toes about safety is  good.

That Chef one definately is the biggest shocker of them all.  It's almost like something out of a horror movie.  They do get the message across, and like star500 said, they are usually only aired at night, but even still, kids could still be up.  I know if I had kids, I wouldn't want them to watch that



I once worked a construction job (through a temp agency) but I ended up quitting after the first day because the foreman had me and this other guy set up a metal fence around the construction site during a thunderstorm.  He told me I had to finish the job, but I said "that it's a WSIB issue if I do, so either you give me another task to do, or it's going to rain down hard on you"

OMG!!!! :o  That chef one was too much! I mean, yes they are quite gruesome...however, they do make you think, and want to play it safe.

I once worked a construction job (through a temp agency) but I ended up quitting after the first day because the foreman had me and this other guy set up a metal fence around the construction site during a thunderstorm.  He told me I had to finish the job, but I said "that it's a WSIB issue if I do, so either you give me another task to do, or it's going to rain down hard on you"



Good for you!  I make calls on safety all the time, and have had to take heat for it.  Luckily my union is good for back up on safety issues, but I have seen guys do stupid stuff.  One guy got zapped welding metal plates while laying down on his stomach in the rain!  Idiot.  Some of these guys watch a little to much Superman.

These adds serve a purpose, The graphic aspect is what makes one remember the consequences of working
in an unsafe manner. I take issue with the Family Guy one. The guy knowingly wears a defective safety harness
then says the company should have checked the tanks... then wham! Here's were I take issue; The gauge on
the acetylene tank, that would be the smaller tank, was set too high. It's reel hard to see but the needle of the
gauge is set at over 15psi. Acetylene pressure gauges are set at no more than 5psi, any welder knows that. Also,
the guy is using an oxidizing flame, the flame is too white, means he is using too much oxygen. Wrong gauge setting,
wrong flame setting are not the company's fault, he should have mentioned the defective harness and refused to wear
it. One last thing, the explosion that occurred happened from the left of the screen, the oxyacetylene tanks were not
even a factor.

These adds serve a purpose, The graphic aspect is what makes one remember the consequences of working
in an unsafe manner. I take issue with the Family Guy one. The guy knowingly wears a defective safety harness
then says the company should have checked the tanks... then wham! Here's were I take issue; The gauge on
the acetylene tank, that would be the smaller tank, was set too high. It's reel hard to see but the needle of the
gauge is set at over 15psi. Acetylene pressure gauges are set at no more than 5psi, any welder knows that. Also,
the guy is using an oxidizing flame, the flame is too white, means he is using too much oxygen. Wrong gauge setting,
wrong flame setting are not the company's fault, he should have mentioned the defective harness and refused to wear
it. One last thing, the explosion that occurred happened from the left of the screen, the oxyacetylene tanks were not
even a factor.


I was thinking the same.  As a matter of fact in every case the people involved were complicit because they knew there were safety issues and didn't do anything to rectify the situation.  This is true in many cases, people who, do not speak up about safety violations. 

I saw the Construction one on TV again.  The more I see these, the more horriffic they get, and it really gets me scared/worried that even in the office enviromnent that I work in, there are always hazards, some not often visible until an incident occurs.  Now when I go into work, I seem to be more aware that even the slightest thing could cause serious injury

I was googling about these commercials to see other responses, and alot of messageboards I found, people were laughing at all the commercials, which I don't get.  Workplace safety is no laughing matter.  If you got burned by hot oil, or got your face split open by shards of glass, you wouldn't be laughing

I saw the Construction one on TV again.  The more I see these, the more horriffic they get, and it really gets me scared/worried that even in the office enviromnent that I work in, there are always hazards, some not often visible until an incident occurs.  Now when I go into work, I seem to be more aware that even the slightest thing could cause serious injury

I was googling about these commercials to see other responses, and alot of messageboards I found, people were laughing at all the commercials, which I don't get.  Workplace safety is no laughing matter.  If you got burned by hot oil, or got your face split open by shards of glass, you wouldn't be laughing
Oh I know.Someone is comparing the construction one to the Civil War--well,sort of.

well this will harsh your buzz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwCqYTF_io&NR=1

well this will harsh your buzz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwCqYTF_io&NR=1




Wow that was realistic! :o

Some of those foreign safety ads do them far superior than the WSIB ones

Jesus Christ dude! Those commercials are crazy! And the French one was less gory but much sadder. They were talking to each other in the car, and apparently everyone was all right after the accident, and then WHAM!

Wow that was realistic! :o

Some of those foreign safety ads do them far superior than the WSIB ones
it's pretty much freakin' insane what they can do with computers. there would be absolutely no way to know that's fake if it weren't for the context, that it plainly aired on mainstream television. it looks completely real, and the canadian ads are the same way.

i dont mean to get all conspiracy theory (again!), but if folks wanted to misuse that kind of stuff for propaganda purposes and pass faked computer imagery off as real imagery, there's pretty much no limit to what you could do.

well this will harsh your buzz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxwCqYTF_io&NR=1


Scary!

The Chef was a shocker. And The Funeral is every kids nightmare realized.
But having such graphic ads/training films can backfire.
Some people that watch them can get too scared to be cautious and get hurt anyway.

When I was in the Navy there was a short training film, a little over 6 minutes called "Man from LOX". The film is very dated and corny when I saw it in 1979. The final scene brought the hazards of working with liquid oxygen to light. The young sailor died.
The Navy pulled the film because it was not politically correct.

WARNING THE LAST SCENE SHOWS A SAILOR BADLY BURNED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9sIT6P_05I

Well I guess I am sick and twisted because I found the ads entertaining. 

Maybe its the gallows humor I've developed working where I do... I laughed my ass off at the chef's one


At least I like that, when it's too late, instead of just blaming the company they actually took some responsibility in their contribution to the accident...oh sorry there are no accidents.

In my mind I was playing my own side story with the funeral one.... I was imagining the wife getting upset that he sat up and confessed that he wasn't wearing all of his safety gear and at the same time the boss going YES! because he successfully avoided a law suit...





 

The Chef was a shocker. And The Funeral is every kids nightmare realized.
But having such graphic ads/training films can backfire.
Some people that watch them can get too scared to be cautious and get hurt anyway.

When I was in the Navy there was a short training film, a little over 6 minutes called "Man from LOX". The film is very dated and corny when I saw it in 1979. The final scene brought the hazards of working with liquid oxygen to light. The young sailor died.
The Navy pulled the film because it was not politically correct.

WARNING THE LAST SCENE SHOWS A SAILOR BADLY BURNED

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9sIT6P_05I
jesus, that poor son of a bitch.

the rest of the movie was awesome, though. quite weird and funny. i cant believe i watched the whole thing.

jesus, that poor son of a bitch.

the rest of the movie was awesome, though. quite weird and funny. i cant believe i watched the whole thing.
The safety officer was such a bimbo,no wonder an accident happened!Wonder what happened to her?

I probably said this once before but I remember watching a fire safety film in the fourth grade.  A woman was smoking and used hair spray...she started screaming and running around like an idiot while her hair caught fire... that traumatized me...

hmmm wonder what I'd think of it now... if you all find a vid clip of it let me know.

it's pretty much freakin' insane what they can do with computers.


You mean, like this?!?  ;D ;D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhV0Axg44

You mean, like this?!?  ;D ;D ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HuhV0Axg44
AWESOME! i was totally fooled!

on the top of the related movies list was this little gem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UcfZkrdL8&feature=related

i have a feeling you could probably start looking at bad movie FX on YT and not look up from the screen again until you were fifty. :o

The safety officer was such a bimbo,no wonder an accident happened!Wonder what happened to her?


I believe everyone was a civilan, with the one exception.

AWESOME! i was totally fooled!

on the top of the related movies list was this little gem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3UcfZkrdL8&feature=related

i have a feeling you could probably start looking at bad movie FX on YT and not look up from the screen again until you were fifty. :o
That's funny!  ;D ;D ;D

What's scary though, is that if you close your eyes while the kids are lying on the ground sighing, it almost sounds like porn.  :o

I believe everyone was a civilan, with the one exception.
Didn'r she have a uniform on?