I always wear goggles near wire brush operations
Navy Department safety poster: a large goggled worker in the foreground and a smaller hard-hatted worker using a wire brush on a hull plate, under a first-person quotation about wearing goggles. The quoted speaker is an unnamed ordinary worker (testimonial, plain-folks) and the instruction is a single safety rule.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy Department Safety Poster (artist Thorndike)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health
- 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. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1029 (NAID 514555).
Text on the object
"I ALWAYS WEAR GOGGLES NEAR WIRE BRUSH OPERATIONS!" [signature:] THORNDIKE NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-610754
