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Yeah, this was just too funny not to write up. Shake Hands with Danger is a safety training short film for operators of heavy equipment and machinery in factories and similar workplaces. A couple of weeks ago, I went down this rabbit hole of safety precautions videos, real and parodies, and ended up stumbling within this one and it was too hard to resist.
The short is directed by Herk Harvey (director of 1962's Carnival of Souls) and presents different scenarios in which employees might get injured while working with heavy equipment and power tools. But the thing is that it does so in relatively gruesome ways, at least by the standards of your typical safety training videos, which I think sets it apart as some sort of interesting curiosity.
Now, I work IT but in a warehouse for a multinational company where power equipments and safety measures are daily routines, so I was definitely intrigued by the video from that angle as well (I might consider presenting it to our EHS Supervisor as a training option
) But I also found it to be competently made and overall engaging.
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SHAKE HANDS WITH DANGER
(1980, Harvey)
(1980, Harvey)
"♫ Shake hands with danger
Any guy oughta know ♪
♫ I used to laugh at safety
But now they call me... Three Finger Joe ♪"
Any guy oughta know ♪
♫ I used to laugh at safety
But now they call me... Three Finger Joe ♪"
Yeah, this was just too funny not to write up. Shake Hands with Danger is a safety training short film for operators of heavy equipment and machinery in factories and similar workplaces. A couple of weeks ago, I went down this rabbit hole of safety precautions videos, real and parodies, and ended up stumbling within this one and it was too hard to resist.
The short is directed by Herk Harvey (director of 1962's Carnival of Souls) and presents different scenarios in which employees might get injured while working with heavy equipment and power tools. But the thing is that it does so in relatively gruesome ways, at least by the standards of your typical safety training videos, which I think sets it apart as some sort of interesting curiosity.
Now, I work IT but in a warehouse for a multinational company where power equipments and safety measures are daily routines, so I was definitely intrigued by the video from that angle as well (I might consider presenting it to our EHS Supervisor as a training option
) But I also found it to be competently made and overall engaging.Grade: