Funny Safety Images

Safety Images: Fun and Funny

When it comes to advertising, fun and funny ads are often recalled more easily than others and make a larger impact on the potential clientele. This is why many products aim for humor in their appeal: humor works. The same is true about safety: humor works.

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Humorous safety images, just like humorous ads, will produce a larger impact on your audience: your employees. Additionally, a fun or funny poster will often elicit a contagious response. One worker will laugh at the poster and comment on the humor to another employee. That employee will read the poster and may tell another worker, and so on. Within a small window of time, the poster may have made an impact on the majority of your workforce.

With this in mind, how can you begin a humorous safety campaign that can address your workforce most effectively? Let’s look at a few simple and often free ways to inject some humor into safety.

Feature Silly Safety Acts

Most of your employees know what is safe and what is unsafe within each division. The problem within safety often lies not with a lack of knowledge but with time constraints. Employees may cut corners to complete the job more efficiently or more quickly.

However, since they know what is safe, employees will often laugh at pictures of people completing unsafe acts on the job, which can be a connecting force between your safety campaign and their work. For example, a painter knows that it is unsafe to stretch a ladder horizontally across vertical ladders (in an attempt to make a “scaffold”), so if you were to feature a picture depicting this act, you can often make the painter laugh.

Beyond making the painter laugh at the silly behavior of someone else, the picture can also prompt the painter to practice safety at a more thorough level in his own work or encourage him to complete the work without cutting corners. Additionally, the painter may share the funny image with other workers, spreading the safety message farther into your company.

Feature a Fun Image

Another set of safety images that can prove helpful is cartoons. Not just for children, cartoons can be fun and helpful in safety campaigns. A featured character can help build rapport between the safety campaign and the workers, and the cartoon can help introduce safety ideas without putting any person at risk.

First, characters can become beloved. Newspaper comic characters, for example, are almost as well known (and sometimes better known) than politicians. People can begin to identify with Garfield or Charlie Brown. The same can be accomplished with a safety cartoon that you introduce: employees will look forward to their funny safety antics.

Also, if you do wish to feature an unsafe act in your safety campaign, using a cartoon to illustrate the point rather than setting up a photo op with real props will be both safer and less expensive.

Overall, fun and funny safety campaigns can often better impact your employees than a campaign based on repetition, and featuring silly safety acts or cartoons can help you appeal to your employees. So pull out some images or create a cartoon to make safety more fun and more contagious.