Safety education hits the big screen

Siemens Energy & Automation recently took to the stage in 45 theatres across the U.S. to promote safety in the manufacturing workplace.

Safety: Uncover the Competitive Advantage—which features a top-drawer cast of safety industry experts—launched in Albany, N.Y., on January 30, criss-crossing the country before closing in Toledo, Ohio, on February 27.

The full-screen movie treats topics including The Changing Landscape of Safety in the U.S., How Safe is Safe Enough, and Technology: the New Basics. Case studies explain initiatives at OPEL, KUKA, and CAMotion. Mike Taubitz of General Motors, Bruce Main of Design Safety Engineering, and Mark Harned of Astec Industries are among the featured contributors.

Companies that screen the movie also can schedule “lunch-and-learn” sessions as onsite follow-up to the “cinemeeting.” Movie viewers receive a safety workbook with reference materials for on-the-job use.

“Siemens was looking for an innovative way to educate the marketplace on safety,” says Mike Krampe, Siemens press officer. “We worked with our distributor partners around the country to identify what cities were convenient to the largest concentration of customers to make it easy for them to attend. Our goal was to attract company employees from the plant floor to upper management.”

Siemens Energy and Automation offers strategies for meeting changing safety standards, controlling operating costs through risk mitigation, and improving productivity by proactively designing safety into the process.

For more information, go to www.safetythemovie.com