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 Transfer

Date: 1946
Period: Cold War
Made by: Veterans Administration (artist signature: Warfel)
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Poster
Issuer type: State
Regime: Truman Administration
Leader: Harry S. Truman
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Mobilize or secure compliance
Themes: Labor, Health
Event: World War II
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)
Veterans Administration. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-716 (NAID 514203).

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