Workplace Safety Education : The backbone for promoting safety awareness at workplace


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Creator/Artist: Kailash Gharat

Category: Communication Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Sudesh Balan


Detailed Description

Accidents are a major cause of death for people working in construction sites. It is an urgent need to address these issues for the betterment of safety workplace. Poor education, lack of proper training and knowledge about workplace safety issues are some of the main causes for construction accidents. This project aims to create safety awareness among workers using animation videos. These videos can be effectively used by the Safety Manager to provide an appetiser to safety through the engaging characters, amusing story line, and a humorous approach. These videos are designed for less literates and are free of language and culture barriers, keeping in mind the wide and diverse audience. Visual safety awareness material can be used, but due to low education levels of the workers it is difficult to communicate at diverse languages. Therefore wordless animated videos have the potential to make safety education more attractive and enjoyable can solve this problem. Issues like ladder safety, working at height, object falling from height, material handling, and their prevention have been communicated through this project. Safe workplaces are vital to the well-being of workers and the strength of economy of an industry or a nation. Thus, to promote safety education, I have decided to contribute as a designer, to improve safety on the job by preventing workplace injuries and illnesses of the worker.