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title: On with the Job! Get It Done the Safe and Sure Way
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/on-with-the-job-get-it-done-safe-sure-way-1941/
description: 'Industrial safety poster: a worker in goggles and bib overalls holds a pneumatic tool against a salmon-red ground.'
section: Collection
---

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[![On with the Job! Get It Done the Safe and Sure Way, 1941 US poster: Industrial safety poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-with-the-job-get-it-done-safe-sure-way-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/on-with-the-job-get-it-done-safe-sure-way-1941.jpg)

# On with the Job! Get It Done the Safe and Sure Way

Industrial safety poster: a worker in goggles and bib overalls holds a pneumatic tool against a salmon-red ground, with 'On with the job!' in large white type and 'Get it done the safe and sure way' in a dark panel. The ordinary working figure and the slogan tie careful work to defence output (plain-folks).

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/) [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

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

```
ON
WITH
THE
JOB
!
GET IT DONE
the Safe AND Sure Way
[emblem:] NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CONSERVATION OF MAN-POWER IN DEFENSE INDUSTRIES
[seal:] DEPARTMENT OF LABOR DIVISION OF LABOR STANDARDS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
[imprint:] U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1941
```

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