Wow… you have got to had it to the Ontario Worker’s Comp board. They know how to make an effective campaign. I guess the droll, dull, and corporate beige tone of most safety videos aren’t paying off the way people want….. so it seems like they came up with something that is, as they say, “Disturbingly Effective”. Not sure if you could end up using these in your properties, but might give you some powerful ideas of how to get the word across:
Kitchen line staff, Fine Dining, and F&B outlets.
The Gift Shop
More maintenance, engineering:
Construction, Engineering
Electrical, etc.
These are shocking to the point of grim humor, but I am sad to say I have seen the chef, the ladder, and multiple variations of engineering and maintance errors that left people disabled or dead. The penultimate point of the ads are solid, and worthwhile: There are *NO* accidents. Everything can be prevented.
As for bland corporate HR videos, I have seen my share, and definitely had my fill. I loved working at the Wilshire Grand in LA, where we watched Hanjin’s indoctrination videos on top of the normal HR stuff. It seems to me that the nature of HR is that they *SHOULD* make stuff more interesting, but by the nature of what they are, they can’t. By more interesting, I am thinking something like this:
(warning – not safe for work due to swearing and sexual innuendo, and albeit harmless humor it is undoubtedly prepared to offend some of you… still I would love if this was real)
**UPDATE**
14th January 2011
These weird Grace Slick 70’s Dramarock song on top of this horrifying saftey video takes the cake. Cheers to these guys…. it’s so serious. Really well done.
Looks like ERI SAFETY VIDEOS is still running strong. I am sure there are hours of uncomfortable hilarity right over there.
I mean… over *HERE*
I shall forward these to my friend Rick Hession (and soon to be partner in our fledgling consulting company, RestaurantRx Consulting LLC).
As a Torontonian (is that how they call themselves??), so he might get a kick out of seeing what his provincial brethren have cooked up.
The one in the kitchen is so hilariously accurate. I am not saying I have seen that, but boy I have seen some trips to the emergency room. While the real world is not nearly as funny…. they really capture the panic and out of nowhere “WTF just happened?” that goes on in kitchens. Haha… makes me miss it. Well.. I mean not that part.