Arco Am/Pm
Dude and Buddy
IN 2000, Jason was a employee of
an Am/Pm mini mart in Northern
California. His boss had seen the
Paradise Surplus commercials
and asked him to produce a safety
video for the staff.
Using Foam and Felt puppets he
filmed a 20 min video about the
store's safety policy. An article
was published about the project in
the national ON SITE Magazine.


Puppet Plays It Safe

After eight years as an ARCO site
manager with safety record
second to none, Michael Vezinaw
found a void in safety training and
filled it by creating a video
starring a set of colorful puppets
and his own employees.

"I wanted to make it fun and
memorable for them," he says.
"Plodding through this HSE
(Health, safety, and
Environmental) manuals just
wasn't working." With a
shoestring budget, Vezinaw
recruited fellow employee Jason
Ropp, who had a small puppet
theater business, and together
they developed a script.
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