Safety videos sure have changed

[james_davis_nicoll]

The gore level takes a sharp uptick at about 3:40 and then builds.

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[realinterrobang.livejournal.com]

That was hilarious. If catseatdogs hasn't seen it yet, he should...

[sanguinity]

Before I click, is it one of the so-called "high impact" videos? Scare them safe, so to speak?

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Decapitations and so on become frequent.

[sanguinity]

They've been doing those for at least a decade.

Or, leastways, I presume this is one of those. I refused to deal with them when I was a pro; I see no reason to start watching them recreationally now.

[hot-soup.livejournal.com]

Think of all the decapitations you could have avoided receiving, had you seen the videos!

This one's comedy rather than actual. Prize-winning, too.

[martin-wisse.livejournal.com]

It can't be comedy, it's a German movie...

[sanguinity]

*stops watching at the double amputation*

...yeah, it doesn't really work as comedy if you've seen some of these injuries IRL.

[keithmm.livejournal.com]

I have, and worse (albeit in the sense of being one of the rescue people being called in afterward). It's hilarious.

[sanguinity]

More hilarity to you then.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

it isn't exactly a high impact video; at least, I tend to think of those as being like the Remember Charlie videos and such. This is...uhm. a high impact safety video is if were made by Sam Raimi in 1983. there is even a chainsaw.

[stanoje zupunski (from livejournal.com)]

It's a parody.

[sanguinity]

Thanks, that's what I needed to know.

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I saw that ages back, but not subtitled. Now I know what they were saying, I will feel much safer.

[stanoje zupunski (from livejournal.com)]

We actually watched it in my forklift driver instruction session.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

My forklift instruction video was not nearly so interesting. Come to think of it, even the German original was more helpful than the videos we actually got.

[ellarien]

I was sufficiently traumatised by safety videos I saw in the 70s that I have no desire to click on that.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

This. Parody or not, I know my squicks.

[sanguinity]

I absolutely refused to let that kind of thing into my facility. The salespeople for the high impact stuff were fundamentally disrespectful of workers in the way they would pitch these things (very, "the workers get injuries because they're out to get you," with a heaping dose of "the workers are too stupid to know their own self-interest"), and that attitude seemed to bleed through into the product, too.

Not to mention that such videos are hell on people who have lived through, or witnessed, such injuries.

And in terms of doing what they nominally set out to do, I'm not convinced that the high-impact style of video is terribly effective compared to the problems they introduce: some people are too upset by them to learn anything, while people who watch for horror flicks recreationally would laugh from one end of the video to the other. Far, far more effective to be matter-of-fact about the material, and then let the old salts on the floor drive home exactly why this matters, when driving home is needed.

[stanoje zupunski (from livejournal.com)]

Except... this isn't a video out to traumatize you.

It's a parody of safety instruction videos. It's as realistic as a 15-year-old's homemade splatter movie, and deliberately so.

[sanguinity]

I was replying to ellarion, about the kind of video she was talking about.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

High-impact can have an effect. I had a class learning basic rock climbing, and they were 'forgetting' to removing rings and dangly earrings. When I showed them a picture of a degloved finger (http://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f149/degloved-finger-32521/) all the jewelry came off immediately — and stayed off!

Warning: graphic image behind link.

[(Anonymous)]

Ouch. Is that re-attachable, or do they just go straight to amputation?

Bruce

[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

Back when I was an apprentice wood machinist, we got to watch a lot of black-and-white era safety films. Scare 'em safe is nothing new; those 1940s/1950s films didn't pull their punches.

(they were also heavy on the "because you were a careless twit, your mate's kids are now orphans" angle)

These days, the only gross-out video I get to inflict on my students is the one demonstrating why it's a really good idea to tie your hair back when working with cadavers in the anatomy labs...