Zurich ad

[sholay]

In a Zurich Insurance ad, a man falls from a height protected by an inflatable vest that cushions the impact.

This actually seems like a feasible invention (lifeboats are inflated like that) and would surely save loads of lives around the world.

So why doesn't it exist??

[kazza12345]

as the wife of a health and saftey officer i would say the reason it doest exist is that it dosen't need to. In this country there are health and safety laws to protect people who are working at height, to prevent a fall from happening in the first place. I would presume the health and saftey laws in other countries also cover this. The scenario in the advert would never happen in this country with any decent firm who cared about health and safety, and the ones that didn't wouldnt be providing nflateable jackets anyway. Health and safety law in this country first looks to eliminating the risk - eg having a scaffold round the high up sign with some edge protection so that people couldn't just fall over, if that didnt elimante the risk enough, they would be harnessed on and would only look at giving employees personal protective equipment (such as an inflateable jacket)as a last resort if the risk couldn't sufficiently be eliminated or the job couldn't be done another way

[N@NG!E]

yes all very true and i agree but this could be a cheaper more renowned way to prevent this from happening i mean it can take days to put up scaffolding and a safety harness restrict movement and can be uncomfortable

[kazza12345]

but surely the principle of preventing a fall in the first place overrides cost/inconvienence if the company has a good health and safety ethic?

[angeldraws]

Yes, but surely you would have to anticipate that you would fall off a great height before you wore it anyway.....in which case, if you knew you were clumsy - you probably wouldn't put yourself in that situation......Lol...some people are too serious heh?