Safety


Safety refers to those words and images which emphasize the safe and harmless qualities of the product itself, or in using it.

Safety words are often backed up with images associated with protective authority figures (police, fire fighters, doctors, nurses, parents), or established institutions (AMA, ADA, Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval, Underwriter's Laboratory, FDIC Insured).

Safety ads often use the scare-and-sell technique: to intensify a problem, then offer the product as the solution. Thus, ads may use negative words (such as unsafe, harmful, dangerous, poisonous) and images (such as fires, crashes, criminals) associated with the opposite, unsafe things which are undesired or feared.


Product-centered ads make claims and promises to stress the good qualities of the product: explicitly said in words, or implicitly suggested using words and images
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Key Words


assure
burglar proof
care, careful, caring
certain
child proof
fail safe
fire proof
fire resistant, fire retardant guard, guardian
guarantee
harmless
immune
nonflammable
peace of mind
prevent, prevention protect, protected
pure
rest assured
risk free
safe, safety
safeguard
shatter proof
shielded
sure
tested
unadulterated uncontaminated, unpolluted
withstands
worry free.

 

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