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WSIB: Commercials Go Too Far?
DekuStick
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Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board has a campaign "There Really Are No Accidents". They use the following commercials to make people aware of the dangers they face at work and that they have the right be safe and refuse anything the worker finds unsafe.
Girl on an unsafe ladder
Forklift worker impaled
Charred man sits up at his funeral
I think these commercials really do go too far in the sense that if I were younger these would no doubt give me some awful night terrors. I see one of these commercials just about every break. I think WSIB could have gone about these ads in a more tasteful manner without resorting to shock material. Perhaps making danger aware to the viewer and a fellow co-worker stops the employee in danger and explains the danger before them. The employee would then reply with something along the lines of "Whoa...I was never informed". What do you think? Have these commercials crossed the line or do you find them to be perfectly appropriate?
Girl on an unsafe ladder
Forklift worker impaled
Charred man sits up at his funeral
I think these commercials really do go too far in the sense that if I were younger these would no doubt give me some awful night terrors. I see one of these commercials just about every break. I think WSIB could have gone about these ads in a more tasteful manner without resorting to shock material. Perhaps making danger aware to the viewer and a fellow co-worker stops the employee in danger and explains the danger before them. The employee would then reply with something along the lines of "Whoa...I was never informed". What do you think? Have these commercials crossed the line or do you find them to be perfectly appropriate?
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They're a little brutal, but they're honest.
They make people think, and not just tune out like I know I would if I heard yet another Wear your safety goggles! jingle.
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I think they probably work too.
The original version of this didn't have voiceover. Just text. I thought it was better that way.
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They only air them in select timespots, it's not like this is run on YTV during SpongeBob
Growing up I had a tv in my room and would often stay up later than I was allowed to watching. I also know for a fact these would probably have me scrambling for the remote as a kid. Though having these on later does shield a lot of the younger audience from them.
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Now that is the stuff of nightmares.
The deer one is definately the best. The butterfly is a second.
The guinea pig makes no sense, because it's basically already punished him for no reason.
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That proves the guinea pig means some serious business.
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I actually am a bit torn about this. My rule of thumb tends to be "If all you've got is 'Won't you think of the CHILDREN?!?' fuck whatever you have to say," but there is something to be said against showing people fucked up images interspliced with normal programming.
I guess as long as these aren't shown during any programming aimed specifically at kids, free speech/public service trumps coddling children. At the end of the day, the worst case scenario is a kid sees them and has nightmares for awhile, which is something more or less inevitable in every child's life. Every kid will at some point see something that freaks them out, and something like this that'll screw them up short term but have no lasting effects is relatively benign in the grand scheme of things.
Now those were some really fucking disturbing PSA's.
I kind of half wanted butterfly to open the bag. What the hell bleeds, twitches, groan/growls, and is still scary enough to be threatening?
Retail is full of deadly shit, and the construction industry is a giant death trap, and they need all the help they can get.
OSHA's regulations go for miles for a reason.
Also: Do not ever be in a situation where you can't get the hell away from a car backing up in to another car if you want your torso to remain attached to your ass.
There's public safety campaigns here in the UK I have major problems with, however, in particular those done by the THINK! Road Safety group. Almost every ad I've seen done by them makes me just pissed off rather than considering the message they're trying to get across. This is one of the worst I've seen:
http://www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk/campaigns/teenagers/download/050819-teens.mpg
It's uneccesarily realistic, and seems to be saying that if you get run down, it's your own damn fault kiddies. There's just such a lack of campassion/sensitivity in the way it's been handled I want to punch whoever made it in the face.
There's also a bunch of ads they've been plastering all over the buses around here: graphic posters of the aftermaths of road accidents (Ie, a guy partially scalped by a steering wheel) with captions like "First date?" and "Night out with your mates?". It's like they've taken a long hard look at the line between hard-hitting and direspectful and pissed all over it.
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People need to know how dangerous things can be. You can't communicate that by pussyfooting around the issue. And if a few kids are scared shitless of ladders, well, so much the better I say. They'll not run the risk of falling off any, and they'll be sure that nobody around them does either.
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On topic, I don't really see what's wrong with them. They're not going to be aired on YTV or Teletoon, and probably won't be on during family-oriented programming. They serve a good purpose and are a damn sight better than the crap that I've had to watch during staff training with CSC. (Although the hostage video was pretty fucked up. Simulated rape FTL.) They'll probably get some letters, but for the most part they'll be effective in transmitting their message.
Besides, I think kids are more resilient than many give them credit for. I enjoyed my nightmares, anyway. :P
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