Creepy Canadian Safety Commercials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI&feature=related

yes, creepy

That's different. Definetly get's your attention.

The retail store one is AWESOME. I wonder if that fall was CG or practical (or some mix). Stupendous effect, in any case.

jg

Oh Jeezus!

They stopped airing them a while ago. Now they have new ones where you think the person is about to get injured, but doesn't because someone 'fixed' the hazard. It is quite a relief.

I have to agree with the concept. Most accidents are the result of inattention, poor supervision, or sloppy management. Having worked in construction, I've seen people die from stupid preventable actions 3 times. I think this ad should show here, but that won't happen. Great production though.

mw wrote: They stopped airing them a while ago. Now they have new ones where you think the person is about to get injured, but doesn't because someone 'fixed' the hazard. It is quite a relief.

What a great follow-up to the series! It wouldn't be effective at all without the originals, but it brings the point home nicely.

That chef one IS creepy.

But the ladder one? You lean over, loose your balance and its the company's fault because there was no policy on it being a two person job, and the ladder was broken??? Or SHE just did something stupid. ??

Yeah, that one did show a certain lack of personal responsibility.

it really gets the point across. still they are kinda odd.

The most popular last thought right before an accident is ---

"I really shouldn't be doing it this way"

i liked the steel falling from the shelf myself.

There was a commercial in England, back in '99, where you see a mother and her 2 kids get into a car. The narrator tells you a bit about them, and how the boy is about to kill his mother. He wasn't wearing his seatbelt, and was thrown forward into her when they hit something (I cannot remember what). That was another creepy commercial.

This reminds me of the safety talk I got before stepping onto the floor at an old Chrysler metal stamping plant.

The speech was this. "In the stamping process, a thin film of oil is used to make the metal form better. This gets airborn and covers everything. The floors, the stairs the hand rails are all greasy. The edges of the metal after it is stamped are razor sharp. Remember while you are out there, you are always walking on an oil covered surface surrounded by dirty razor blades. The other big hazard is vehicles. The fork truck drivers move fast here. The ones that are sober are not watching for you."

Not all creepy videos come from Canada...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ehEhZ9A68

I have only shown this to my highschool students once....

ok the Canadian ones were freaking CREEPY especially the chef one.

The German one I found to be more funny than anything, yeah sure it was bloody and stuff but it was that over the top kinda thing.

The Canadian movies were pretty intense. The chef one gives me the willies, my wife is a chef and it amazes me how common injuries are, especially in a production kitchen. I guess sharp knives and fire are dangerous.

Stuff happens, though. I don't buy the idea that all accidents can be avoided.

SkinnyG wrote: Not all creepy videos come from Canada... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ehEhZ9A68 I have only shown this to my highschool students once....

That is the best safety film I've ever sat thru.

Type Q wrote: ...drivers move fast here. The ones that are sober are not watching for you."

Sheet metal plant, or just tooling around in traffic.. Defensive driving: an important safety measure!

Effective!

You always get interesting results when the Canadian awesome sense of humor and overwhelming sense of political correctness collide

Most accidents are the result of my wife leaving a 3"W X 4' L lite of glass hanging out of the trash can.

Fixed. Aside from that, I'm usually the one that causes my own accidents. I'm notorius for pushing my finger down on the "unsafe" side of a safety blade.

Can't watch this till I get home.

When I worked for Caterpillar way back when they had a safety film called 'The Color of Danger'. It had all kinds of staged industrial accidents, one was a forklift flying off a dock into a harbor. That one was actually funny.

The worst part was a guy replacing a lift pin on a bulldozer, this thing is thicker than your arm. The guy had removed the pin and had his hand inside the empty pin hole, smearing grease...

... the camera cuts to the keys in the switch and a hand reaching for them.

The next part was really graphic, even though it was done with the special effects of the late '60's. The lesson: always lock out any kind of equipment you are working on and remove the keys so it can't be started.

The chef one really freaked me out. The others were not so bad.