Are you wearing the RIGHT safety equipment?
Navy safety poster in cartoon style: a muscular figure in padded leg guards and a wire face mask holds an air hose that blows against his own chin, with a large dark shadow of a fist on the wall. The headline asks 'Are you wearing the RIGHT safety equipment?' The exaggerated figure and threatening shadow imply injury from wearing the wrong gear.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy Department, Safety Poster (artwork signed Thorndike)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Own forces
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- War and the military, Labor
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Navy Department, Safety Poster. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-421 (NAID 513880).
Text on the object
Are you wearing the RIGHT safety equipment? NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER [signature: Thorndike] [imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944 565961]
