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title: Efficient service to those who served can be attained only thru safe and healthy employees
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/efficient-service-bradley-1946/
description: 'Veterans Administration workplace-safety poster: a half-tone portrait of a uniformed general with stars on the collar on an orange ground.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Efficient service to those who served can be attained only thru safe and healthy employees, 1946 US poster: Veterans](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/efficient-service-bradley-1946.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/efficient-service-bradley-1946.jpg)

# Efficient service to those who served can be attained only thru safe and healthy employees

Veterans Administration workplace-safety poster: a half-tone portrait of a uniformed general with stars on the collar on an orange ground, with a quotation about safe and healthy employees above a facsimile signature, 'Omar N. Bradley'. The technique is testimonial, a named military figure's signature put behind a workplace-safety message, with his rank carried over to the request.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Testimonial](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/testimonial/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Efficient service to those who served
can be attained only thru safe and
healthy employees.
[signature:] Omar N. Bradley
[signature:] Warfel
[imprint:] V.A. POSTER 5-1
[imprint:] VETERANS ADMINISTRATION, WASHINGTON D.C.
[imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1946-O-693784
```

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