Canadian Company’s Workplace Safety Video Notches Seventh Award

Calgary, Canada, April 18, 2009 --(PR.com)-- A Canadian company's 45-minute best-selling video on workplace safety has notched its seventh award for excellence in industry-wide competition. Danatec Educational Services Ltd's Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) "Tell Me Your Story" features six fast-paced real life episodes that deliver an up-to-date and versatile case for safety on the job. The survivors themselves explain what happened in each graphic case and how serious injuries, or even deaths, would have been prevented if basic WHMIS principles had been applied.

The result is a sharply-focused training video and entire suite of WHMIS training products that not only motivate employees to become aware of the reality of dangers but also encourage them to ask the right questions and put this positive and practical information into everyday use at work. WHMIS – “Tell Me Your Story” is the centerpiece of Danatec's high-energy suite of WHMIS products – handbooks, self-teach training programs, online training, instructor’s manuals, posters and video – that won the prestigious Canadian Society of Training and Development (CSTD) Gold WOW Award honouring innovative learning products and programs this past fall.

Other recent Danatec WHMIS awards include:

Gold Aurora Award, an international safety industry competition recognizing creativity, message effectiveness and technical excellence in film/video industries.
The Platinum Remi Award for Best Documentary Film Script and;
The Gold Remi Award for best Online Course. Presented at the Worldfest in Houston, which is one of the oldest and largest film and video competitions in the world with more than 4500 entries received from 37 countries. Famous past recipients of this award include Stephen Spielberg, George Lucas, Ridley Scott and the Coen Brothers.
The Silver Brandon Hall Award for Best Use of Video in Danatec's WHMIS Online Training Program. Other winners in this category include IBM and Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
The Award of Excellence for Danatec’s WHMIS self-teach and;
The Award of Excellence for Danatec’s WHMIS handbook. The Apex Awards for publication excellence is an annual competition for writers, editors, publication staff and non-profit communicators.
Safety Video Award of Excellence for WHMIS – “Tell Me Your Story” and;
Information Video Award of Excellence for WHMIS – "Tell Me Your Story." The Videographer Awards is an international awards program directed by communication professionals to honour talented companies in the video production field. Past winners have come from North America and around the world.
The Platinum MarCom Award for outstanding achievement in the Video-Training category and;
The Gold MarCom in the Video Script category. This year’s competition – targeted to marketing and communication professionals – attracted 5,000 submissions from companies worldwide.

Special invitation showing of WHMIS - "Tell Me Your Story" at The World Congress on Health & Safety at Work Conference in Seoul, South Korea this past July.

Ronald Martin, Danatec’s president, welcomed the growing industry acceptance of the firm's new WHMIS product line and catalogue of educational and compliance tools for WHMIS and Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG). "We're on the leading edge of this fresh approach to safety training. We're finding that “Tell Me Your Story” reaches employees on an emotional and practical level. Employees are encouraged to learn about hazards they are working with, to ask questions about them and then use this information to work safely. They realize these dangers are real and can happen to anybody." Added Martin, "That’s what makes our new line of WHMIS products so impactful and useful."

“WHMIS -Tell Me Your Story" is a hit –with industry trainers as well as on factory floors nation-wide.

About Danatec
Established in 1985, Danatec opened its doors in Calgary with a mission to provide reference and training materials for Transportation of Dangerous Goods. Since that time, the company has grown and evolved to become Canada's leading provider of workplace safety training solutions. It is best known for exceptional publications and educational materials in the areas of TDG and WHMIS, and has an unequalled reputation for reliability, practicality and quality in everything it produces. This new WHMIS product line represents the culmination of twenty-four years of developing and delivering the best nationally recognized and innovative workplace safety solutions.

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