Don't wait --- report every injury for first aid
Text-only workplace safety poster in yellow lettering on dark blue, telling workers to report every injury for first aid without waiting, with 'every' underlined. The technique is faint here: the only persuasive device is the urgency of 'Don't wait', a mild fear-appeal about untreated injury that the sheet never spells out.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Health, Labor, Home front
- 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)
Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-698 (NAID 514179).
Text on the object
DON'T WAIT --- report every injury for FIRST AID FEDERAL WORKS AGENCY WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-484128
