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Workplace Safety in the UK suffers from an absence of TV advertising to promote the importance of why workplace Safety matters. This wasn't always the case in the UK, during the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's Public Information Films produced by the film unit of the Central Office of Information did cover some workplace safety issues as well as comprehensively raising awareness of public safety issues surrounding Road Safety, Fire Safety, Safety risks to children and public health issues.
In other countries - modern public information commercials have successfully tackled workplace safety issues and we put links to these here.
Many of the public information films of this period were so menacing they drove the message home and some still give us nightmares 40 years on, but most were effective at the time. There are literally hundreds of these short films which guided the public yet because of governmental departmental juristiction workplace safety was never covered.
UK Road Safety
Clunk Click (1966)
Green Cross Code 1(1975)
Green Cross Code 2 (1975)
Green Cross Code 3 (1975)
Splink John Pertwee (1976)
Staying Alive Hedgehogs (2001)
UK Fire Safety
Fire Kills: Make your Plan (1990's)
Chip Pans (1990's)
Child Safety
Charlie Says Falling into Water (1973)
Lonely Water (1973)
Home Safety
The Fatal Floor (1974)
This was a home safety film but in 30 seconds makes a point valid to many commonplace and preventable workplace slips, trips and falls. With a shift away from carpets toward dangerously slippery solid floors in workplaces, ROSPA reported a 400% increase in people falling foul of polished floors from 2,900 to 12,300 between 1998-2004.
Public Health
AIDS Don't Die of Ignorance (1987)
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