--- title: Keep your eyes on your work url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-your-eyes-on-your-work-1944/ description: An orange sheet with a large drawn palm, each finger and the palm labelled with an injury and its cause, such as 'Removed guard from machine' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. Keep your eyes on your work [![Keep your eyes on your work, 1944 US poster: An orange sheet with a large drawn palm, each finger and the palm labelled](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-your-eyes-on-your-work-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/keep-your-eyes-on-your-work-1944.jpg) # Keep your eyes on your work An orange sheet with a large drawn palm, each finger and the palm labelled with an injury and its cause, such as 'Removed guard from machine' and 'Punctured palm drilling thru metal'. The slogan 'KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR WORK' runs below. Bodily injury is the fear-appeal; the one statistic, 23% of Navy accidents, is a selected figure. ## 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 ``` DIDN'T TAKE TIME TO USE PUSH STICK TOOK EYES OFF WORK WHEN USING PORTABLE SANDER REMOVED GUARD FROM MACHINE INFECTED FROM SPLINTER. CAUSED BY NOT WEARING GLOVES. PUNCTURED PALM DRILLING THRU METAL TOOK EYES OFF WORK WHEN USING HAMMER AND CHISEL 23% OF ALL NAVY ACCIDENTS OCCUR TO FINGERS & HANDS. NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER KEEP YOUR EYES ON YOUR WORK [signature:] Thorndike 662 440322 [imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944-O-574429 ``` [← Keep These Under Cover](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keep-these-under-cover-1944/) [Keeping war workers well and fit →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/keeping-war-workers-well-and-fit-1944/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Miniature of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, Les Passages d'outremer (BnF Fr. 5594, fol. 19r)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/passages-doutremer-council-of-clermont-colombe-1474/) (France · 1474 · Testimonial, Fear appeal). Content note: Medieval religious imagery and a French text describing alleged killings and captivity of eastern Christians, as used to argue for the First Crusade; the text is shown as written. - [Anacoana fut pendue sans raison (engraving in Le miroir de la cruelle et horrible tyrannie espagnole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/anacoana-hanged-miroir-tyrannie-espagnole-1620/) (Dutch Republic · 1620 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Engraving of a hanged, bare-breasted Taino woman, burning huts and people being killed by Spanish soldiers. - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (Holy Roman Empire · 1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Kingdom of Great Britain · Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [Proclamation de Sonthonax en créole, Cap-Français (Proclamation of Commissioner Sonthonax in Creole)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sonthonax-proclamation-creole-1793/) (France · Aug 29, 1793 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating). Content note: Colonial-era proclamation on slavery and emancipation in Saint-Domingue; speaks of slaves, whips and 'Nègues' in period terms. - [Gazette of the United States, "The Jeffersoniad" no. VIII, 14 August 1800](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/gazette-us-jeffersoniad-1800/) (United States · Aug 14, 1800 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Tyrants Prostrate, Liberty Triumphant (pro-Polk cartoon on Dorr), 1844](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/tyrants-prostrate-liberty-triumphant-polk-1844/) (United States · 1844 · Name-calling, Fear appeal). Content note: Speech balloons contain anti-Catholic and nativist wording ('the ruins of Popery') in the mouths of the Whig figures, written by a Democratic cartoonist and shown unaltered. - [Brolej Žemajčiaj! (Brothers Samogitians!): hand-painted broken-cross poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brolej-zemajciaj-broken-cross-1862/) (Russian Empire · 1862 · Fear appeal, Transfer)