Safety App Of Week

April 14, 2014 No Comments

Below is this week’s “Safety App of the Week“.  Every Monday we publish an article that reviews and rates a new workplace safety app.  Our testing is done on Apple iPads and Samsung Galaxy Tab 3s.  We rate each app from ♥ to ♥♥♥♥♥ (♥♥♥♥♥ is the best).  Prior app of the week articles are archived here.–

SafetyCinema–

Official Description  

“Safety Cinema™ presents short, concise, and easy to understand topics to help everyone stay safe at work and at home. The entire program is designed to reach a wide audience.

Install “Safety Cinema” for these features:

•Eleven short, animated videos—closed-captioned in English and six other languages

• Additional flyers, posters, and presentation slides

• Common-sense, technical information in a personal, informal, and entertaining format

Developed by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Safety Cinema provides an icebreaker for genuine conversations about safety, emphasizing the need for everyone to take care of each other.“¹

Thumbs Up

• cost is free
• no registration or sign in required 
• easy to use without any instructions
• terrific sound quality
• content is good and factual
• each video is only about 2-minutes long
• videos can be shown “full screen”
• accompanying each video is a:  flyer, poster and transcript
• app will work off-line

Thumbs Down

• only 11 videos
• the videos cover general safety messages at a very basic level (6th or 7th grade level)
• the visual quality of these videos is only “average” 

Overall Rating

• iPad / iPhone – ♥♥♥
• Android – ♥♥♥

¹ Descriptions courtesy of iTunes

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