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Railway Safety Posters (2022)
- BHSPitMonkey 3y agoReminds me of my favorite high-voltage warning label: > DANGER: NOT ONLY WILL THIS KILL YOU, IT WILL HURT THE WHOLE TIME YOU'RE DYING
- mojo74 3y agoTo be fair BPI were pretty good at scaring the absolute shit out of the general British public in the seventies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g&t=2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0xmSV6aq0g&t=2s
- MarkusWandel 3y agoFor sheer shock value, little can beat the texting-while-driving one. No direct link but you can google "british texting while driving ad". The NZ safe driving ads are also really something. "new zealand safe driving shock ads" brings up one that really triggers, but then again, both the above particularly work if you're a parent.
- dspillett 3y agoI assume https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0LCmStIw9E is the one you are thinking of (there was a shorter version that aired in TV ad breaks). The Think! campaign was always pretty on-the-nose, as you need to be sometimes to get these messages across. The seatbelt and in-town speed limit ones stick in the mind too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKHY69AFstE and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDpOAXfangI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDpOAXfangI respectively. The memorably stark tone and the frequency they were on TV made these spots ripe for parody, for example this one from Monkey Dust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOk9Ln1qOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsOk9Ln1qOY
- post-it 3y agoI'm partial to this Irish one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNL6t-Eu-IY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNL6t-Eu-IY
- BytesAndGears 3y agoWow, that first one is genuinely horrific, I can’t believe they had the guts to release something so strong. Glad they did though, it probably saved a ton of lives.
- nayuki 3y agoI really like this PSA from the British THINK!, juxtaposing celebration and darkness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERT0xNFGo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CERT0xNFGo4
- deepspace 3y agoFor shock value, the Canadian workplace safety ad featuring the chef comes pretty close: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWiUGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noFCekWiUGE
- lostlogin 3y agoThe New Zealand ACC public safety advertising campaign was gold. My favourite is the one at 1min 30 but all are complete classics here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=9ciomPP8MyE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY&feature=emb_logo https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=105&v=9ciomPP8MyE&...
- stickfigure 3y agoEspecially terrifying, in modern light, to watch Jimmy Saville narrate child safety videos.
- drcongo 3y agoThis terrified me for decades after seeing on tea-time TV: http://www.weirdretro.org.uk/the-finishing-line-the-banned-public-information-film.html http://www.weirdretro.org.uk/the-finishing-line-the-banned-p...
- kakwa_ 3y agoIn France, during the late 90ies/early 00ies, we got a bunch of "quite direct" Road Safety ads. The one that traumatized me the most as a child was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNMrcgiAdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNMrcgiAdw
- sneak 3y agoDoes telling someone who might lie on the tracks to not lie on the tracks have much of an effect? Are there people who lie on train tracks who are unaware that doing so is dangerous?
- xwdv 3y agoWhen you’re tired, it’s comforting to lay on a track rather than hard ground. The wood provides a stable level surface, and tracks are cleaned regularly. You can doze off for a nap if you know trains don’t regularly come by.
- the_sleaze9 3y agoYou what
- bornfreddy 3y agoThank you for providing an alternative view of the world, it would never have occurred to me otherwise! Enjoy your nap and stay safe.
- myrmidon 3y agoI feel this misunderstands the posters way of working in the same way that a lot of people misunderstand how ads operate: Just because you don't suddenly get an irresistible urge to drink a gallon of Coca Cola after seeing an ad for it does not mean it wasn't effective-- you are not looking to cause monumental shifts in your targets worldview or values, instead you slowly nudge all their future decisionmaking in a favorable direction... slightly.
- lostlogin 3y agoI’d like to see the numbers. Maimed and deaths pre poster and post poster. I have a sneaking idea that the numbers will be similar.
- atlantic 3y agoWhile driving in a remote area of India late one night, I came across an entire family (from the Dalit caste) sleeping in the middle of the road. Either they had no home, or they were travelling. The location was warm (the asphalt held daytime heat) and clean (the road being bordered by dense jungle). Given the context, it made sense.
- MarkusWandel 3y agoI wonder how many ways these could get attacked in modern litigation culture. I can think of two. 1. The graphical injuries shown are an admission by the railway company that such injuries can happen, increasing its liability when something does. 2. The graphical nature of the posters could "trigger" traumatic experiences in someone...
- giraffe_lady 3y agoAre you literally making up a guy to get mad at here? There are still intense and even gruesome safety PSAs all over the world.
- HPsquared 3y agoAlso the simple PR / marketing issue... Discouraging customers and making more more NIMBY activity
- bluGill 3y agoGenerally modern litigation assume you follow the following steps: design the problem out, guard it out, then warn it out. Those are ordered steps, so if you can fix the problem with a different design you can't put guards on and call it good, but if there is danger remaining after looking at the design and adding guards then a warning sign is a way out of liability. Many of the dangers listed cannot be solved with a design or guards, so signs noting the danger are the correct response and will be used in court to show they knew of the danger and tried their best to prevent it in the only way left. Note that these are from the mid 1960s - there is technology today to design out some of those hazards that didn't exist then. Platform screen doors for example didn't exist back then, but because they do now you can no longer warn about someone getting to close to the platform edge, you need to design it out by adding those doors (such doors do not work on curved platforms so signs are still useful for some really old stations that are impossible to remodel). For all the others you have a good case against the railroad if you get hit by a train since they should have doors, fences, and quad arm crossing guards which by design make it nearly impossible to get on the track and thus there is no danger of getting hit.
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- kd5bjo 3y agoIceland has some PSAs running right now about e-scooter safety that have a similar vibe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUNZ3quITA&list=PL3prAqz9YEX5y3LyOSGTiv6mfW31tiC1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSUNZ3quITA&list=PL3prAqz9YE...
- FriedPickles 3y agoIt's easy to laugh at the Thai posters for how obvious the precautions seem. But this is a good reminder that there are new technologies today for which we don't yet know the "obvious" precautions.
- hn_throwaway_99 3y agoI didn't feel the precautions were particularly obvious. Sure, maybe individually. But in total, I think they serve as a very potent reminder: trains are dangerous, and your mindset around them should be one of precaution. In many places like Thailand and India, trains are a much more commonplace part of everyday life. Familiarity breeds complacency, and these posters serve as a potent reminder of how dangerous trains actually are. The same dynamic exists with cars in the US. One thing I've found helpful is that, every time I get into a car, I just take a single deep breath and remind myself I am piloting a potentially lethal machine. I find it really helps put me in the right mindset to take better appropriate care when I'm driving.
- schoen 3y agoMaybe, compared to those in more developed countries, more of the trains in Thailand and India run through rights-of-way with less separation from places that people and animals are commonly found? Or maybe more of their crossings used to lack warning equipment and barriers?
- Animats 3y agoI grew up on the south side of Chicago, where there are tracks at ground level with no barriers. How to walk along and cross railroad tracks was covered in first grade. Chicago has so much railroad track that this was as important as how to cross streets. The tracks near where I grew up are still unfenced and at ground level.
- everybodyknows 3y agoThis was a big improvement over the usual walls of text we were seeing back in 2020: https://www.who.int/images/default-source/wpro/countries/malaysia/infographics/three-3cs/final-avoid-the-3-cs-poster.jpg https://www.who.int/images/default-source/wpro/countries/mal...
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- eterm 3y agoDoesn't compare to Roald Dahl's guide to train safety: https://tygertale.com/2014/06/25/final-warning-roald-dahls-guide-to-railway-safety/ https://tygertale.com/2014/06/25/final-warning-roald-dahls-g... The Quenin Blake illustrations of decapitation really hit the point home.
- jenscow 3y agoI was just thinking about this. Thanks for digging it out
- rob74 3y agoThat's a classic of course, but for me, these exaggerated cartoon/comic style depictions are not as disturbing as the more realistic Thai posters, because they make you think of other classics (Road Runner & Coyote, Tom & Jerry etc.) where the protagonists regularly suffer gruesome mutilations, only to be perfectly fine again in the next scene...
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- gumby 3y agoMy favorite rail poster of all time was an Indian dual-use one from the early 80s. It had a picture of mum, dad, daughter, and son walking across the platform together each carrying a single suitcase. Along the top it said "Travel Light: Plan your Trip." Across the bottom it said "Plan your Family". I so wanted to take a photo but no cameras were allowed in the train station.
- jstanley 3y agoWhy were no cameras allowed in the train station?
- albert_e 3y agoYear 2007, I was visiting US for first time. Found Atlanta fascinating. Clicking pictures everywhere. Waiting for metro (marta?) I took video of a train arriving. The conductor? of the train stepped out , said that's not allowed, and insisted I delete it immediately.
- don-code 3y agoThat I know of, photography is still prohibited on the MBTA in Boston, but you see it all the time. I think the Overton window has shifted to the point where the ability to take a photo is now assumed to be a given, and enforcement otherwise would be difficult because "everybody's doing it".
- cantSpellSober 3y agoIt's generally legal anywhere in the US you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy (like publicly accessible spaces)
- Anechoic 3y agoThe T backtracked on that a while back: https://patch.com/massachusetts/northend/yes-you-can-take-photos-on-the-mbta-583df69c https://patch.com/massachusetts/northend/yes-you-can-take-ph... (the original MBTA link is long gone)
- Brajeshwar 3y agoWhile UK struggled to make people understand that using the Ticket Machine was a piece of cake! https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/19704146340/in/datetaken-public/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/brajeshwar/19704146340/in/date...
- physhster 3y agoThis is hilarious because Thai trains are anything BUT fast.
- mikeInAlaska 3y agoI remember a Thai train slowing to a near standstill, followed by an excessive tilt to the side for a couple car lengths of movement, then back up to speed. Also remember lines of Thai people being stopped by a guard with a machine gun for searches while my pale colored wife and I were waved right through into the train station. I would like to go back to Thailand it was a fantastic vacation.
- usrusr 3y agoAll the more likely to underestimate the danger. We are not good at estimating the speed of large objects because so much of our perception of the speed of objects happens in "units of relative length over time". When a small dog walks beside a horse the dog will appear much faster.
- deepspace 3y agoThe one with the bridge reminds me of the trestle scene in "Stand by Me".
- Modified3019 3y agoWe need a poster for here in Oregon to inform the public that they should shouldn’t shamble into the road without looking, and should cross with due haste. You’d think this was something to learn as a two year old, but I guess not.
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- tialaramex 3y agoWhy? Humans were here first, the cars should adapt to the existing presence of humans. "Jay walking" is a way for car makers to pretend that the problem they're causing is someone else's fault.
- freeopinion 3y agoAnybody who's ever been a youth counselor anywhere in the world can sympathize. "Don't play Frogger with real cars." "Don't shoot Roman Candles at each other." "Don't drink laundry detergent."
- ChrisArchitect 3y ago(2022)
- Lammy 3y agoI like how the last few seem like a sabotage manual in disguise. ̶D̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ throw stones at the trains. ̶D̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ destroy communication equipment. ̶D̶o̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ bring animals to tend on the tracks. Makes sense since these were from 1965–1968: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Thailand#After_1932_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Thailan...
- mdturnerphys 3y agoThe Thai anti-smoking ads are pretty straightforward/gruesome as well, and cigarette companies are required to include them on their packaging.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoThere's one about giving your dog lung cancer which is pretty hard to forget
- Animats 3y agoNetwork Rail in the UK has many rather scary safety videos. Here's one that's relevant to the SF bay area.[1] It's about the dangers of aluminum Mylar helium balloons near overhead wire. Those balloons are conductors, and so are their shiny metallized ribbons. If one of those things gets close to high voltage overhead wire, the holder will be electrocuted. In wet weather, ordinary non-metallic strings become conductive. Network Rail has deaths this way regularly. The SF bay area now needs that warning. CALTRAIN electrification is close to power-up. That's expected in Q4 2023.[2] This is the first time the SF Bay Area has had 25KV overhead wire close to ground level. (SF Muni is 600VDC. BART is 1000VDC. Most power transmission lines at higher voltages are much higher up than railroad power. Caltrain wire is at roughly 5 meters.) Balloons on long strings are now deadly near the tracks. Tell people this. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udaS3NDCkk0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udaS3NDCkk0 [2] https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification/construction https://www.caltrain.com/projects/electrification/constructi...
- ww520 3y agoAre the rail safety videos popping up recently in response to teens videoing themselves on rails for likes? https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/teens-electrocuted-600-volts-after-30705747 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/teens-electrocuted-600...
- jahewson 3y ago> Network Rail has deaths this way regularly. No they don’t? But they do make the trains late.
- binarymax 3y agoJust in general, while it's not easy to notice in these specific posters, Thai art is absolutely incredible. It's strikingly and fundamentally different from the art in the West. If you ever have the chance to visit Thailand, visit their contemporary art galleries.
- mvdtnz 3y agoCan you recommend some galleries in Bangkok? I'm visiting in November. I already have MOCA on my list, is that enough or should I plan more?
- binarymax 3y agoA little while since I've been, so I recommend first checking out TCDC: https://www.tcdc.or.th/ https://www.tcdc.or.th/ then asking around for other fresh exhibits in the area
- ipsin 3y agoReminds me of this old favorite, Chraňte Děti. http://cardhouse.com/a/distress/distress.htm http://cardhouse.com/a/distress/distress.htm
- jameshart 3y agoLove the contrast with the previous article on the same site: https://www.thaitrainguide.com/2022/06/05/day-trip-to-the-market-on-the-railway-tracks/ https://www.thaitrainguide.com/2022/06/05/day-trip-to-the-ma... Clearly these 1960s posters were not very effective.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoThe 'Dumb Ways to Die' video from a few years ago, from Australia, was quite funny and memorable (which I think is the aim for these campaigns): https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw https://youtu.be/IJNR2EpS0jw Be safe around trains.
- teddyh 3y agoFor forklifts, see: Staplerfahrer Klaus <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAWGv5O7Zs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psAWGv5O7Zs> (If you have not seen it, I implore you to watch the entire thing.)
- srvmshr 3y agoJust a benign observation: The list starts with brutal and graphic, going progressively benign to harmless ones. Shock effect expected.
- toddmorey 3y agoThe “Don’t stand on the steps” poster sure looks like the other passenger threw him from the train. But resisting throwing out other passengers is also good advice.