We didn’t just have adverts… We got sent on a day trip to ‘crucial crew’ (don’t know if anyone else had to suffer through this?) You learned stuff like fire safety, blah blah… Then there were videos of a kid drowning in slurry, one chopping his friend up with a forklift truck, 2 kids playing in a quarry and getting trapped under loads or rubble… And so it goes on. It was the worst day of my life.

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youknowyourebritishwhen:

When I was in primary school we went to this safety kind of day at a centre in Bristol? It started with really tame stuff like picking up dog poop and gradually got more intense throughout the day. We had to guess how far it would take for a car to slow down at 40mph by standing in the middle of this fake road and they literally walked down pointing out who was dead and who was far enough away to have survived. By the end of the day there was like this one room where you opened the door and the room was supposedly on fire (they had lighting and really warm heaters so opening the door gave the effect) and so we had to ring their emergency services and describe the scene.

We watched a lot of videos and had multiple talks. I don’t know if that’s the same thing you’re describing? 

Edit: This is where I went just for clarification.

I had to visit one of those places! I got to go twice, once with the school and once with the Brownies. Everyone got a chance to call the ‘emergency services’ and report an emergency, and I forgot to give the person on the other end my phone number, although I don’t know why we needed to do that anyway.

Also they had a fire simulation and a fake building site and stuff in there? It was called Hazard Alley, it might have been in Aylesbury or Dunstable…