Running in work areas is strictly forbidden
Navy Department safety poster: a stylised figure in blue overalls sprints across an orange field, one foot about to land past a crate marked 'Handle with care', above the text 'Running in work areas is strictly forbidden'. The technique is faint: an implied injury and damage warning delivered as a flat prohibition.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Navy, Navy Department Safety Poster
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- 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, Navy Department Safety Poster. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1650 (NAID 515317).
Text on the object
HANDLE WITH CARE RUNNING in work areas is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN NAVY DEPARTMENT SAFETY POSTER N675 ☆ U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—588769 [handwritten:] Navy safety safety —
