Oh, not fun! (and not for the squeamish)

[Achilles]

Go to YouTube and search for "WSIB".

 

There are about half a dozen videos. Workplace safety will never be the same again.

[MdKnightR]

Go to YouTube and search for "WSIB".

 

There are about half a dozen videos. Workplace safety will never be the same again.

 

 

Don't you suppose something like this should be in Kavar's instead of Ahto? I see lots of room for discussion on a serious topic in this one.

 

By the way, that ad with the chef slipping on the grease brought back bad memories. I had a similar incident when I worked at Pizza Hut about 12 years ago. I slipped on a wet floor carrying a pot of boiling water (about the same size as the one in the commercial). When I fell, it poured into my lap and down my legs. The hot water spread underneath me as I thrashed about trying to get away from it. I ended up twisting my back out of alignment, cracked my tail bone, and had 1st and 2nd degree burns on my knees and ankles. Thanks to some quick thinking fellow employees, the cold water and ice prevented my injuries from being a lot worse.

 

So take it from someone with experience, workplace safety is of paramount importance.

[dandelionwine]

No one would argue that workplace safety is not important. However, these gory ads are an elaborate social marketing campaign orchestrated to manipulate the public into talking about accidents, safety and prevention rather than talking about the failure of workers compensation boards to compensate the victims. WCBs in each Canadian province (and in the US) have come under a lot of scrutiny for their avoidance of paying fair compensation to disabled workers. The fact that people are talking about the ads rather than the dysfunctionality of the WCB system shows that this orchestrated social manipulation campaign is working.

 

WCBs in Canada and the US represent employers (the only ones paying into the fund). Therefore WCBs will do whatever they can to lower fees for corporations. One way is by denying compensation payments to disabled workers. But this would be socially unacceptable unless the public can also be manipulated into believing that the worker is somehow negligent or at fault for causing the accident. In this social marketing campaign, WCBs are subtly adopting the language of the anti-drunk-driver campaign - " zero tolerance" "negligence", etc. to manipulate public attitudes towards injured workers. They also use the term "accidents" rather than "injuries" to take the focus away from the person and onto the event. These ads, and other orchestrated 'social engineering' techniques lay the foundation for WCBs to justify a reduction in injury compensation payments to disabled workers by manipulating public attitudes toward disabled workers.

 

Those injured workers in the videos would realistically spend the rest of their lives in poverty fighting the WCB for compensation.

 

The way to reduce injuries is to make companies accountable for workplace safety violations through realistic fees, not protect unsafe companies from these higher fees by denying disabled workers' claims.

 

If you think the WSIB's ads are scary, check out the Canadian Injured Workers Society at http://www.ciws.ca for a real eye-opener!

[Negative Sun]

^ These kind of first posts always scare me, it's like secret government agencies are spying on Ahto, which is unacceptable I say!