I have been asked to write a short presentation for some of our managers to deliberately use a shock and scare tactic on failure to follow safety procedures and generally breaching safety on site. Putting aside if using this type of training works or not (we are using other types) but we deliberately want to make them feel very uncomfortable about their attitude and actions towards safety. Does anyone have or can point me towards material that I could use with the items I already have. Thanks, Richard

Richard Show a few pictures of the inside of a prison and emphasise what would happen if they were prosecuted as an individual. Loss of job, loss of income, criminal record, possible imprisonment. Ask them how they would tell a family a member of their work force was killed by their lack of following safety procedures. At a previous employer we got in a company that uses actors for various scenarios. It helped change attitudes.

Are you looking for assistance to help you deliberately emotionally / mentally harm your staff? How about also injuring a few physically as well to show them what might happen? I think it's reasonable to talk about consequences, and for that I favour the SGB 'Cost of Accidents' video, but deliberately scaring people has no more place in H&S training than deliberately injuring them, in my opinion.

Back in the day John Cleese was responsible for some - his type of safety video.

Sometimes a good video or testimony from someone involved in a life changing accident can have far more effect than slide after slide of legalese. Whilst I was at the IOSH conference, I came across a screening of a DVD made by Ian Whittingham, who was disabled by a fall through a roof. Funny at some points, heart breaking at others. He sadly died seven years ago, but I think you can get the DVD from the BOHS. Sometimes you have to be careful. As a parent governor at my daughters' school many years ago, I was asked to give a talk to the students about to go out on work experience. Rather than droning through slides, I looked for something they could relate to, and found a video called 'No Going Back' about a singer in a band suffering a disabling fall down stairs. All was going ok until the moment of the fall, when I could hear an audible gasp from the children, and concluded that I had traumatised them for life. I never got asked to do another one!

Hi Richard, Some people here are getting a bit hot-under-the-collar, by the terms 'shock' and 'scare'. I think there is definitely a place for more hard-hitting stuff. You are looking for something akin to the recent drink-driving campaigns which really drive home the reality of the dangers. However, I'm sure a quick search of Youtube should yield results

Just remembered there is another film called "In the real world" which I believe centres on a court case after an accident - but I don't know much more than this. It may also be an idea to present a case study around the Alton Towers incident, although it may lack a little punch as (I don't think) they have been sentenced/fined yet. You could ask the managers to estimate the fine? One of the initial press releases suggested the operator was at fault, but as we know, the company (not the operator) were prosecuted. For the full on experience, Ken Woodward used to do presentations about his accident and I also believe Jason Anker (has his own website...) also does presentations after he had a fall from height. Why not get them in to tell it like it really is...? HTH

i see no harm and i believe using not so much shock and scare tactics but simply the truth. sometimes the truth is grim, people do die sadly, they do sustain life changing injuries and accidents do ruin lives. telling true and direct stories is what people need to hear and not hypothetical what if's I ran a workshop on my last project, essentially a guy at the early stages of the project had a serious accident and as a result was unable to work for 9 months, he came in and told his story. money issues, family time etc this had a real impact on the staff as this wasn't some manager with a tool box talk but someone they could relate to directly. again with management, show recent examples of fines, imprisonments etc. not scare tactics just real life. just my thoughts

I was subjected to shock and scare films for years in the military. Not sure of value. Similarly Bradford fire etc - shocking, yes, but what's the lesson? Although the film 'No Going Back' was in it's day, 1991 I think, so well produced it could have been a TV story, with Cherie Lunghi and other well-know actors (then), I was still uncertain as to it's learning value, as it featured a good, caring company to whom a classic swiss cheese failure event caused a heartbreaking injury. No really bad behaviour. Bad luck. It depends entirely on the audience and the learning objective. HSE Chris idea is the one which will engage workers. Managers need to see the implications on them - not the same as those who could be hurt. I agree that some shock & scare can be justified for this group. Nothing like the police turning up as the ambulance leaves, and declaring a 'crime scene' to make management really wake up. Talk them through that kind of scenario, waiting to be interviewed by police / HSE, being asked to attend interview under caution, arrest, DNA, fingerprints, photos, scary stuff all right. Who goes to see the family . . . etc. Many still think the consequence of an accident at work is all about insurance and civil claims. Really!

Ideally you want to find something that directly relates to your industry if possible as this will give the guy something that they can directly relate to themselves. If not try this video which I think is pretty hard hitting