Public Safety ads

gramar

In two ad breaks on RTE the other day I saw at least four different ads for safety awareness....

- ESB cables
- gas leaks
- driving while tired
- some ad about common sense with inflatable lego men and a fella ending up on the ground at the end


We all know Ireland is a nanny state and there'll be ads about how to wipe your arse soon without giving yourself tennis elbow but does anyone take any notice of these? When you're up a ladder trimming branches out the back do you stop and think of the TV ad you've seen and reassess the situation? When you're driving do you pull over for a bit of shut eye because you saw it on TV?

Lia_lia

I was just thinking that yesterday when I was watching tv (well, tv3 online catch-up). Constant fire safety and gas ads. I find they do work the odd time. Bought a carbon monoxide alarm last week as a radio ad reminded me I didn't have one. The gruesome car crash ads really stuck with me when I was younger.


The roundabout ads they used to show obviously don't work.

Tabnabs

This nanny statism keep us kids alive in the 70s OP!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEssgMQ1O_k

Paulzx

I certainly don't consider warnings about the dangers of high voltage ESB cables/pylons as an indication of a "nanny state"

They're not exactly stopping you expressing your own free will just by trying to warn you about being electrocuted.

If you think messing with ESB cables is a good idea maybe you need to be "nannied":D

jimgoose

In all fairness, it's easy these days in this part of the World to take things like high-tension lines, gas mains, cars, etc. for granted that you even forget they're there, or at least forget that they can be a source of mortal danger. Couple that to the fact that some people haven't the sense God gave a donkey, and you have a case for a certain level of this sort of public safety activity.

Didas

gramar wrote: »

In two ad breaks on RTE the other day I saw at least four different ads for safety awareness....

- ESB cables
- gas leaks
- driving while tired
- some ad about common sense with inflatable lego men and a fella ending up on the ground at the end


We all know Ireland is a nanny state and there'll be ads about how to wipe your arse soon without giving yourself tennis elbow but does anyone take any notice of these? When you're up a ladder trimming branches out the back do you stop and think of the TV ad you've seen and reassess the situation? When you're driving do you pull over for a bit of shut eye because you saw it on TV?

We do?

ScumLord

The best one I ever saw was in the hospital.

"are you old?"
"have you fallen over before?"
"Then you could be in danger of falling over"

I can't remember the poster fully or find copies of it online but it struck as the most obvious poster I'd every seen.

Winterlong

ScumLord wrote: »

The best one I ever saw was in the hospital.

"are you old?"
"have you fallen over before?"
"Then you could be in danger of falling over"

I can't remember the poster fully or find copies of it online but it struck as the most obvious poster I'd every seen.

And some genius got paid how much for designing and coming up with the concept?!

Winterlong

In fairness, you think the safety adverts today are ridiculous...we used to have adverts warning people not to smoke in bed.
This one from the UK.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u72oEl__JQE

gramar

Winterlong wrote: »

In fairness, you think the safety adverts today are ridiculous...we used to have adverts warning people not to smoke in bed.
This one from the UK.

There is only one type of smoking in bed that is acceptable and that isn't it.

One_Of_Shanks

ScumLord wrote: »

The best one I ever saw was in the hospital.

"are you old?"
"have you fallen over before?"
"Then you could be in danger of falling over"

I can't remember the poster fully or find copies of it online but it struck as the most obvious poster I'd every seen.

I want one of those posters!

ScumLord

One_Of_Shanks wrote: »

I want one of those posters!

I think the real one is even better. I'm almost sure it goes into ways of avoiding falling over, IE: Sitting down.

Atlantic Dawn

They are sponsoring radio shows too, has to be costing a fortune.

Pinch Flat

In fairness though, a lot of people are plain stupid. Ads like these are required to remind them of the dangers of electricity, water and not using our roadways properly.

MagicIRL

My Nanny used to give me money at the weekends.

Ireland gives me fuck all.

the groutch

to be fair, road deaths as low as they've been in decades, and I'd like to think that campaigning like this has in some way helped.

ScumLord

the groutch wrote: »

to be fair, road deaths as low as they've been in decades, and I'd like to think that campaigning like this has in some way helped.

Or cars are just much, much better than they where 20 years ago. Air bags as standard, ABS as standard, crumple zones, stability control. The car is taking control from the driver in dangerous situations now.

Paulzx

ScumLord wrote: »

Or cars are just much, much better than they where 20 years ago. Air bags as standard, ABS as standard, crumple zones, stability control. The car is taking control from the driver in dangerous situations now.

Road improvements have to be a massive factor. 20 years ago the road between the 2 main cities in the state was a single lane road with no seperation between traffic going the opposite way, blind bends, blind hills, no hard shoulder, no lighting, traffic able to turn right every couple of hundred yards and constantly changing quality of surface.

The upgrade in roads probably had as much to do with lowering road deaths as safety campaigns at the time. This is why we've probably peaked at road death figures. We've changed our roads, improved car engineering but the human factor will always come into play. there will alwyas be some level of road deaths