# Ladder Safety Claude Animated Explainer Prompt

> A copyable Claude Design brief for a continuous ladder-safety explainer, with explicit approved-rule inputs and a final safety-review gate.

*Prompt · September 23, 2026*

> **Safety boundary:** This is a creative-production prompt, not a safety procedure. Before using any resulting video for training, a qualified safety professional must approve every rule, figure, visual, and voiceover line for the specific jurisdiction, ladder type, work environment, and employer program. Do not rely on this prompt as authority or replace the manufacturer's instructions. The bracketed approved-rule inputs below are intentional.

Copy the prompt below into a fresh Claude Design project after replacing the bracketed inputs with approved content.

## Approved inputs to supply first

- `[JURISDICTION_AND_PROGRAM]` — governing standard, employer program, and review owner.
- `[LADDER_TYPE_AND_USE]` — for example, non-self-supporting extension ladder used to access an upper landing; do not mix rules for different ladder types.
- `[APPROVED_POWER_LINE_CLEARANCE]` — the approved clearance rule and source for this work context.
- `[APPROVED_SET_UP_RULE]` — the approved angle or ratio for the stated ladder type and use.
- `[APPROVED_LANDING_EXTENSION]` — the approved landing-access extension rule, if applicable.
- `[APPROVED_CLIMBING_RULES]` — approved contact, body-position, tool-carrying, and top-rung/step guidance for the stated ladder type.
- `[APPROVED_QUIZ_ANSWERS_AND_RATIONALES]` — three reviewed questions with exact answers and source references.
- `[REVIEWER_NAME_OR_ROLE]` — the person or role approving the final cut.

## Copyable prompt

```text
Build a 60–105 second animated training explainer in Claude Design about ladder safety for field technicians. Treat the approved inputs below as the only source of safety rules, figures, and on-screen claims. This is a training-design task, not a request to infer safety guidance.

APPROVED INPUTS
- Jurisdiction and program: [JURISDICTION_AND_PROGRAM]
- Ladder type and intended use: [LADDER_TYPE_AND_USE]
- Power-line clearance: [APPROVED_POWER_LINE_CLEARANCE]
- Set-up rule: [APPROVED_SET_UP_RULE]
- Landing-extension rule: [APPROVED_LANDING_EXTENSION]
- Climbing rules: [APPROVED_CLIMBING_RULES]
- Quiz answers and rationales: [APPROVED_QUIZ_ANSWERS_AND_RATIONALES]
- Final reviewer: [REVIEWER_NAME_OR_ROLE]

If any approved input is missing, do not invent, generalize, or imply a numerical rule. Leave a visible [REVIEW REQUIRED] placeholder in the storyboard and voiceover instead. Keep every rule specific to the stated ladder type and work context. Do not claim the finished video is compliant, certified, complete, or safe to use without the named review.

FORMAT AND ENGINE
- Create a 1920×1080 animated explainer on one continuous timeline: one persistent element tree rendered from a single time axis. Objects persist, move, and morph across scene boundaries rather than cutting between disconnected slides.
- Declare the scene list as data: scene name, duration, and one-line description. Make every duration easy to trim.
- Build entirely with HTML, CSS, and SVG driven by that clock. Do not use footage, stock imagery, or illustrative character art.
- Use `easeOutCubic` for entrances, `easeInOutCubic` for camera moves and draw-ons, and a restrained `easeOutBack` only for tiny confirmation pops. Nothing snaps.

VISUAL SYSTEM
- Palette: warm paper `#F4F1EA`, sky `#E9E4D8`, ink `#1B2430`, secondary ink `#4E5867`, charcoal panels `#141A22`, safety amber `#F2A33A` as the single accent, deep amber `#A85F00` for amber text on light, and red `#D9432F` reserved for hazards or review-required states.
- Type: Barlow Condensed for headlines and pills; Barlow for body and captions. Nothing under 24px. Headline statistics, when approved, are 96–170px.
- Style: flat, diagrammatic, geometric technical illustration. No gradients, drop-shadow soup, emoji, or hand-drawn SVG figures. Represent people as abstract dots and capsules only.

THE PERSISTENT WORLD
- Use one side-elevation world for every section: a house wall on the right with clapboard lines, two windows, roof edge, and eave; ground plane with a soil band; a utility pole and overhead line crossing the upper left; and a service van with roof rack.
- The ladder physically lives on the roof rack, comes off for the set-up sequence, and returns to the rack at the close.
- Camera keyframes: begin tight around 2.0× at the ladder foot; pull to 1.0× for the wide; push to around 1.45× for set-up; return to 1.0× for the close. Ease every camera move.

SCENE-BY-SCENE STORYBOARD
1. Open — approximately 5 seconds. Start on a charcoal panel with a generic `Field Safety Series` tag, `Module 04 · Technician training`, a large `LADDER SAFETY` title, an amber rule, and a footer line. Slide the panel upward to reveal the persistent world; do not cut.
2. Why it matters — approximately 12 seconds. Show an intentionally unsafe ladder set-up only as a clearly marked hazard demonstration. The ladder pivots at its foot and tips backward; show a ground-impact ring and brief camera shake. Use only approved opening copy. Do not use unverified fatality statistics or causal claims about falls.
3. Stakes — approximately 5 seconds. Pull to the wide world and let three outlined chips rise: `Your safety`, `Compliance`, and `The customer's home`. These are context labels, not claims of certification.
4. Inspect and prepare — approximately 12 seconds. The van arrives with the ladder on its rack. Show three cards with an amber confirmation pop and paired in-world indicators: ladder condition, ground quality, and overhead-line awareness. Display the power-line clearance only when `[APPROVED_POWER_LINE_CLEARANCE]` is supplied; otherwise show `[REVIEW REQUIRED: approved clearance]` rather than a number.
5. Set the ladder — approximately 14 seconds. Push the camera in. Pivot the same ladder about its top contact point from an unsafe demonstration position to the approved position while its foot slides out. Draw dimension lines only for `[APPROVED_SET_UP_RULE]`. Extend the ladder past the roof edge only when `[APPROVED_LANDING_EXTENSION]` applies. Show a tie-off only when it is an approved part of the supplied program. Do not substitute a universal rule.
6. Climbing — approximately 13 seconds. Dim the persistent world and show three close-up inset cards. Each begins with `CLOSE-UP`, then uses only the supplied approved climbing rules:
   - Contact sequence — animate the approved contact pattern without implying it applies to every ladder type or task.
   - Body position — show the approved safe corridor between rails; mark an out-of-bounds posture as a hazard only if the supplied program uses that rule.
   - Upper-rung or step limit — show only the reviewed limit for `[LADDER_TYPE_AND_USE]`. Do not use a generic `top two rungs` rule.
7. Wrap — approximately 5 seconds. Return the ladder to the roof rack and let the van drive out. Slide the charcoal panel upward from below.
8. Quiz — approximately 30 seconds. On the charcoal panel, show three approved questions in sequence. Each has three lettered options, a 3-second amber countdown ring labelled `THINK`, then a reveal: the approved correct row turns amber and the reason appears underneath. Use the exact reviewed wording from `[APPROVED_QUIZ_ANSWERS_AND_RATIONALES]`. Leave the timer silence in the voiceover.
9. Close — approximately 6 seconds. Return to the opening panel with `Module 04 · Complete` and a reviewed closing line. Do not claim completion of a qualification, certification, or safety training requirement.

SUPPORTING LAYERS
- Add a centred, rounded, near-opaque white caption pill at the bottom. It carries narration line by line, stays within roughly 62% width at 38px, and is toggleable for voiceover finishing.
- Keep a small `Field Safety Series` tag in a top corner, but hide it in the set-up section if it conflicts with approved dimension callouts.
- Add controls for captions on/off and any review-safe visual variants.

VOICEOVER
- Produce a timecoded voiceover at approximately 135 words per minute in a calm peer-to-peer senior-technician tone, not announcer energy.
- Every spoken technical rule must be identical in meaning to the approved input and must appear on screen; do not add orphan facts.
- Deliver separate exportable blocks for story, Q1, A1, Q2, A2, Q3, A3, and closer. Leave three seconds of silence after each quiz question.
- If a recording is supplied, detect its pause boundaries and retime the animation clock to the recording rather than asking the voice to match the animation.

FINAL REVIEW GATE
- Before export, produce a plain-text review list of every numerical value, safety rule, source reference, and visual hazard shown.
- Mark any item not present in the approved inputs as `[REVIEW REQUIRED]` and omit it from the final voiceover and visual copy.
- Include this final slate in the project notes: `Creative brief only. Final safety review: [REVIEWER_NAME_OR_ROLE].`
```

## What to verify before publishing a video

This prompt intentionally uses placeholders because rules depend on the ladder type, task, jurisdiction, and employer program. For example, OSHA's construction standard specifies a one-in-four working-length angle for non-self-supporting ladders and a three-foot extension when a portable ladder is used to access an upper landing surface; it also has exceptions and context-specific provisions. Its ladder fact sheet discusses keeping ladders and tools at least ten feet from power lines and maintaining three points of contact while climbing. These are not a substitute for local requirements, the ladder manufacturer's instructions, or qualified review.

- [OSHA: 29 CFR 1926.1053, Ladders](https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1926/1926.1053)
- [OSHA: Safe Use of Extension Ladders fact sheet](https://www.osha.gov/sites/default/files/publications/OSHA3660.pdf)
- [OSHA: Worker Position on a Ladder](https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3755.pdf)

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