Play safe! Your work needs you every day
Workplace safety poster: a cartoon bald man in a long coat stands on two crutches beside a bandaged, starred foot. The slogans tie staying uninjured to the war job and tell workers to get first aid for any accident. The fear-appeal is mild and comic in tone.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Safety Division, U.S. Compensation Commission (reproduced by NYC WPA War Services); artist Ginny Moore
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Home front, 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)
Safety Division, U.S. Compensation Commission. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1516 (NAID 515182).
Text on the object
...PLAY SAFE! your work needs you every day no accident is too minor GET FIRST AID IMMEDIATELY [signature: ginny moore] [imprint: REPRODUCED BY NYC WPA WAR SERVICES] [imprint: SAFETY DIVISION U.S. COMPENSATION COMMISSION]
