'Tell Me Your Story' DVD a Big Winner for Workplace Safety

"Those stories are going to help a lot" says the trailer for the powerful workplace safety stories produced in a series of DVDs by Canadian company, Danatec. A few seconds into it, I see a man severely disfigured on face and arms by burn scars, a woman discussing the occupational disease that has made her a victim, and a pair of lab workers discussing the need for WHIMS training.

BUT it's NOT dull! Rather, the trailer is fast-paced, with an engaging soundtrack, cutting to images of varying workplaces, and still cram-packed with valuable information aimed at saving lives at work.

Dantec has produced a 45-minute training DVD that includes six real life-episodes that deliver a versatile case for safety on the job. The survivors themselves explain what happened in each graphic case and how serious injuries, or even deaths, would have been prevented if basic WHMIS principles had been applied.

We at MySafeWork have long lamented the lack of powerful, engaging workplace safety training material - and Danatec is showing everyone how it can be done!

The trailer is available at Blip.tv - a progressive social media site (more than 1 million viewers a month) that shares video (there are dozens of popular video sharing sites beyond YouTube) and this in itself is indicative of the kind of leading-edge approach the company is taking.

They're not content to settle for dusty three-ring binders of MSDS fact sheets, nor 20-year old videos of talking heads droning on about safety.

And Danatec has won seven prominent awards for its innnovative approach to workplace safety training, including the Gold Aurora Award, an international safety industry competition recognizing creativity, message effectiveness and technical excellence in film/video industries.

I challenge MORE COMPANIES to get on the ball and make this kind of safety training material and disseminate it as widely and successfully as Danatec is doing.

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