This training film opens with a resoundingly patronising scene as two male British Rail managers mock their female colleague for her efficiency. All three managers are the main characters in this dramatised safety awareness film and their taxi journey to a hotel for a meeting is the framing device of this video - whose intended audience was BR managers across Southern Region.

A disconcerting consequence of this focus upon managers is that it is the impact of accidents on the higher ranks that is foregrounded for much of the film, rather than their devastating effect on the families of staff killed or injured. Each manager has an interior monologue and reconstructed flashback to a previous accident in their area, culminating in them wishing to themselves that the latest accident isn't on their 'patch'.

The concluding section switches the focus to the devastated families with a powerful scene - again filmed from the perspective of a boss - as he knocks on a front door to deliver terrible news to the cheerful wife who initially believes she's welcoming a guest to the surprise party that she's throwing for her father in law.

This scene dramatises the bleak statistic at the close of the film: 'In 3 years... 51 BR employees have been killed in accidents of which 6 were from Southern Region... leaving 6 wives without husbands and 6 children without fathers'.