Workplace safety saves lives — there's no doubt about that. Using any equipment correctly and having the right protections can prevent more than one tragedy... but there are times when the message doesn't fully get through, and those who develop instructional videos must resort to slightly more... 'aggressive' techniques to make clear what could happen. The folks at ERI Productions, now ERI Safety Videos, developed a short called "Will You Be Here Tomorrow?" in the late '90s, and to be honest, it's on par with any horror movie.
I imagine many of our readers have had some contact with the "Final Destination" saga. In one way or another, the protagonists manage to escape death, and we all know that the lady doesn't like to leave things half done, so a kind of marathon begins, liquidating people in strange, absurd, and even 'creative' ways. This mechanic allowed the saga to extend over five movies, and most likely there's a sixth, but to be honest, it didn't bring anything new to the horror genre.
In fact, exaggerated deaths have had a privileged place in many previous works, and they're not necessarily limited to movies. As far as we've seen, this kind of content also found a place in videos aimed at workplace safety. If you don't believe me... look at this:
Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
(Warning: The video shows blood, various mutilations, punctures, fractures, burning bodies, and explosions, so it's definitely NSFW. If you can't or don't want to play the video, you should stop now.)
This masterpiece with a copyright from 1998 belongs to ERI Productions, a company that first became ERI Safety Videos, and then called itself AP Safety Training, and continues in the same market, i.e., producing videos aimed at workplace safety. The web address that appears in the video description leads to an empty blog, and judging by the title, the person who uploaded it to YouTube must be Brazilian or Portuguese. The moderate statements from the 'experts' contrast greatly with the screams of pain and dramatic music, and at times, the workers do their jobs so badly that they remind us of the actors in infomercials... with much more serious consequences, of course.
In short: a gem of horror that seems taken from the '80s, but actually belongs to the late '90s. If someone made something like that in these days of politically correct television, the media would be screaming for weeks...
