Preventing accidents at work: Advertisement

[mlc2000]

Saw this banner ad on a website, its pretty funny...


http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y188/itsfatboy/prevent-it.jpg

[MrWizard]

They are all over public transit now, YRT and TTC.

[Ryan]

I hate these ads.

[kitbor]

That is a very distasteful ad. No all teens are balloon-head and only live to party. If I were teen, I would be very outraged. But if you are teen and find it funny, then the ad suites you well.

[squall458]

I hate these ads.

Me too. These ads are worse than those stupid.ca ones, and I hated those with a grudge.

[Carnage]

I saw one on the bus last week which had a bandaged up bloody hand trying to grab an Xbox360 controller.

Caption was something about preventing workplace accidents so that you can play Xbox360.

Is our society really gotten so dumb that we need to get them to be careful by saying prevent injuries so that you can still play video games?

I would have thought loss of life/health/etc was good enough reason.

[alv077]

I saw one on the bus last week which had a bandaged up bloody hand trying to grab an Xbox360 controller.

Caption was something about preventing workplace accidents so that you can play Xbox360.

Is our society really gotten so dumb that we need to get them to be careful by saying prevent injuries so that you can still play video games?

I would have thought loss of life/health/etc was good enough reason.

You haven't walked into a high school for a long time, have you?

[actuary]

Take a look at the website. Its much more graphic than the subway ads.

http://www.youngworker.ca/en/flash/preventitville.html

In my opinion, they should not have to resort to gore to get their point across. By the way, the website is restricted to those over 14. I wonder if that should apply to their ads in the subway as well?

[duckling.]

There's an ad in the theaters as well. That one is pretty graphic. I was watching a PG movie (Pirates), I feel sorry for the kids.

[reborn_phoenix]

Honestly, I can't believe they allowed this type of ad to go on...

[lixstix]

Yeah, when I first saw these on the TTC, I was like "WTH?" and thought they were very distasteful. But, I think they're meant to have a sort of 'shock' value to them. Why? Because the ads have definitely stuck in my brain. And look, we're now discussing them too.

In a way, the ads have done their job in getting people to take notice and to cause discussion among people. For those who haven't seen the ads yet, if they hear about "this ad that seems distasteful" then obviously they're going to go and look at the ad too to see what all the fuss is about. This may or may not have been a direct reaction that the ad creators were looking to induce, but it's certainly an effect that increases awareness (and therefore exposure) of the ad.

[sxz]

Well seeing as how the whole point of these ads were for the shock value, suffice to say they've done their job and done it well. I've personally seen the severed/bandaged hand with XBOX360 controller and the missing ear with MP3 player. I found them funny because of the reasons they stated (*gasp*). For most kids these days they take their health for granted so saying they'll lose their life or something is not as effective as you may think. Shock value + teen humour = getting the attention of their target audience and thus their message across.

[MrDisco]

Is our society really gotten so dumb that we need to get them to be careful by saying prevent injuries so that you can still play video games?

Yes.

That is a very distasteful ad. No all teens are balloon-head and only live to party. If I were teen, I would be very outraged. But if you are teen and find it funny, then the ad suites you well.

It got your attention didn't it? Even prompted someone to come and post a thread about it. How many threads did you see when a similar TTC ad campaign was held about a year ago which had stories of brothers lost, limbs maimed, etc? pretty safe to Zero. Those type of ads just blur into the background and hardly get anyone's attention. A guy with a bloody stump and an Xbox is more likely to drive home the message.

Take a look at the website. Its much more graphic than the subway ads.
In my opinion, they should not have to resort to gore to get their point across.

Sure they do. Workplace accidents are not pretty, and worse they occur in places and situations where you least expect it. No one is going to click on a boring government website, but sure as heck more people will click on a site just to see how much gore they've packed in.

(P.S., unless you're a young adult don't bother with the contest as it has an age restriction LOL).

[kitbor]

It got your attention didn't it? Even prompted someone to come and post a thread about it. How many threads did you see when a similar TTC ad campaign was held about a year ago which had stories of brothers lost, limbs maimed, etc? pretty safe to Zero. Those type of ads just blur into the background and hardly get anyone's attention. A guy with a bloody stump and an Xbox is more likely to drive home the message.



To get the attention / to get the message across are different. This ad just get the attention and then vaporize form anyone mind in 0.01 sec. What ad was that again?

[corrupt123]

Is there anything that society does condone anymore?

I can understand where you're all coming from, but these ads are nothing worse than 8PM public television and they're for a better cause.

[kevin01]

seriously i seen the xbox 360 one and stared at it my whole bus ride trying to figure out what it meant. I never knew if it was an ad for the 360 or a general injury prevention ad.