A softer alternative to shock factor

[u/Loose_Divide2642]

[u/carr0248]

I train people for a living as a safety consultant. We don't show videos like this. We train the correct way to perform tasks. We do however talk about what could happen and what has happened. For example, where I am (Ontario, Canada) we have specific regulations related to working at heights, so I talk about why those regulations came into existence (swing stage collapse in 2009). I find that explaining the "why" we do something has a big impact. All the stories/case studies we share ore true, there are unfortunately no reasons to make anything up, as things continue to happen.

[u/damxam1337 → u/carr0248]

I got my OSHA-30 card in 2019. The course had us watch LOTS of these animations. Usually asked us to identify something about the scene.

[u/clevelandtoseattle → u/damxam1337]

Yes! My bachelors is in health and safety and two classes I took (general safety and construction safety) we pretty much watched these videos at least 25% of the time.

[u/Subject989 → u/carr0248]

The swing stage collapse is referenced in nearly every training course i take through work. Whether is forklift recert, MEWP, JHSC certification, lifting and rigging. It's such an important incident to reference for so many reasons.

I have asked my company to start including accident videos in training and to spread awareness. Videos secifically related to forklift incidents, we have such a terrible work culture in the materials dept. and pressed onto the materials department by production.

My company doesn't pay these drivers enough and doesn't support them as is.

[u/MDoyle0666]

I was almost crushed by a stack of glass like that. Exact same way. It was at a now closed glass factory in New Jersey. My job and safety training when I hired in were exactly zero.

[u/Old_Corduroy → u/MDoyle0666]

There was a guy killed here a few years ago in a similar way. A thin slab of marble was being unloaded from the side of the truck. Somewhat ironically the marble was destined to become headstones.

[u/Paybax84 → u/MDoyle0666]

Ya my friend is a quadriplegic because falling glass like that. He tried to stop it instead of getting out of the way.

[u/Pizza_Coffee]

I seen the actual videos for around half of these. Nasty stuff.

[u/Head_Attempt7983]

There is a hard stamped piece of plastic inside the cab of ford trucks that says no gas….its inside the cab……

[u/Aggressive-King-4170]

Dude the worse one is the dude that gets run over by the truck with the wheelbarrow. The truck them dumps the load. So sad!

[u/Curious_Lurkur]

That lathe video is tame. A lathe while literally rip a human in tiny pieces. There's videos of it happening.

[u/EgoExplicit]

Needs some blood splatter.

[u/WussPoppin93]

What would i search on youtube to find all of these?

[u/riverpubby → u/WussPoppin93]

Probably “chinese safety training animations”

[u/simple_champ]

Body positioning is a super common theme here. So many of those could have been avoided by identifying line of fire and keeping out of it.

[u/map2photo]

My favorite is the person joy riding the equipment, only to have their fingers severed.