Safety Film

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to well that happens slices in history in an
easily digestible form, and this is mere a perative, a
palletwetter for your main banquet, which is to come. And
we're looking unsafe safety films today. You remember those sort
of films. Don't let your child play in the fast
lane of the M six, don't let your child operate

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a smelting plant unattended, don't let a child under six
on any account design a municipal building. And this is
one of the much the same sort of things. Actually,
if you come to it, remember the British Aircraft Corporation, Yes,
course you do. You remember the British Aircraft Corporation back
that's what they would called, that was their acronym. In

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nineteen seventy six they had a safety film out and
the film itself became somewhat legendary. As we shall discover,
the film was in fact about wearing goggles and the
dangers that can be had if operatives a certain sort
of manufacturing equipment weren't wear the protective eyewear that was
prescribed in the film. Unfortunately, this film was a little

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bit too graphic and indeed led to one man falling
off his chair and needing seven stitches in his head,
while another thirteen employees at the Preston plant had to
be treated for sickness and injury. Several others complained of
nausea and would let out ashen face to be tended
to in the first aid room. This film was actually
the most dangerous part of the thing, and caused more

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injuries in the thirty five minutes that the film lasted
than the firm had actually had in the previous twenty
years of operation. This has been your friendly well that
happened