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title: Follow Safety Rules!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/follow-safety-rules-1942/
description: 'Industrial safety poster: rows of white grave crosses in a dark field, each hung with a work glove, goggles, hard hat, wrench, pick or saw.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Painted rows of grave crosses hung with workers' tools and protective gear. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Follow Safety Rules!, 1942 US poster: Industrial safety poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/follow-safety-rules-1942.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/follow-safety-rules-1942.jpg)

# Follow Safety Rules!

Industrial safety poster: rows of white grave crosses in a dark field, each hung with a work glove, goggles, hard hat, wrench, pick or saw, above a statistic that more American workers were killed and wounded in industrial accidents in a year than all casualties from bombs in Britain in two years of war. The graveyard image is a fear-appeal; the single comparison is offered without a source on the sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Text on the object

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

```
More American workers were killed and wounded in industrial accidents last year than all the casualties from bombs in Britain in two years of war
FOLLOW SAFETY RULES!
WAR PRODUCTION BOARD
War Production Drive Headquarters
WASHINGTON, D. C. A-24
[imprint: U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1942-O-491592]
```

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