SAFETY MEMES

SAFETY MEMES – the best and funniest

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This idea of memes is not something one finds in a discussion on culture and safety. Yet, there are many safety memes that also have a presence on most social media (https://www.facebook.com/WorkplaceSafetyMemes/; https://cheezburger.com/15506949/workplace-safety-memes-for-the-responsible-coworkers-out-there; https://memes.com/tag/safety ). A search for ‘safety memes’ brings up 27 million results.

What is a meme? The official definition is: A meme (/ˈmiːm/ meem) is “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture”. It could include a captioned image, a hyperlink, a video or even a hashtag. Examples have included the recent planking craze or the harlem shuffle videos – both of which resulted in people losing their jobs due to breaching safety rules whilst filming. See article: Our Obsession with Forbidden Pleasures–Applying it to Safety …

For many years safety fail videos and pictures have very popular, perhaps for all the wrong reasons (see why here). We don’t agree with the use of safety memes and other voyeuristic techniques as, although they may create awareness and get attention they can lead to desensitisation (see: A Case of Desensitisation)

Since safety seems to have a culture of its own, then it makes sense that safety memes will flood facebook, the internet and training presentations. Oh well, if you can beat em, join em. Here is a collection of safety memes and links to more. Please carefully consider what you do with these and the long term harm they may cause.

Safety memes are humorous images or videos that are created and shared on social media platforms or other online forums to promote safety awareness and encourage safe behaviors. They often use clever or funny captions or images to convey a safety message in a memorable and engaging way.

Some examples of safety memes include:

1. A picture of a person standing on a chair to change a lightbulb, with the caption “Safety first, unless it’s inconvenient.”
2. A cartoon image of a person wearing a hard hat and holding a sign that says “Safety doesn’t happen by accident.”
3. A photo of a person wearing a face mask and holding a sign that says “Wearing a mask isn’t just about protecting yourself, it’s about protecting others too.”
4. A picture of a person about to step on a wet floor, with the caption “Stop, slip, and fall.”
5. A cartoon image of a person using a ladder to climb onto a roof, with the caption “Don’t risk your life for a view.”

Safety memes can be a fun and creative way to promote safety awareness and encourage safe behaviors. However, it’s important to ensure that the message is clear and that the humor doesn’t detract from the seriousness of the safety issue.

MORE SAFETY MEMES

The Meme Center

The meme center contains a large collection of quite funny safety memes using some of the safety fail photos you may have seen a few times already.

Make your own safety meme with their Meme Builder

Quick Meme

Not many safety memes on this site but you might find some of their others quite funny – warning easy to waste a lot of time in there!

Delta Flight Safety Video

See How Many Internet Memes Delta managed to cram Into This Ridiculous In-Flight Safety Video:

Please send us any good safety memes you have seen or created. But please don’t send in any more SAFETY FIRST memes – its too easy to poke fun of the “over safetyfication” of everything (Safety Compulsive Obsessive Disorder)

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