---
title: 'Safety record: hours lost through avoidable accidents. ''Get yourself a Zero too!'''
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/safety-record-get-yourself-a-zero-too-1944/
description: 'War Department safety poster: a smiling woman war worker in a cap points her thumb at a chalkboard on which the heading ''Hours lost through avoidable'
section: Collection
---

1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/)
2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/)
3. Safety record: hours lost through avoidable accidents. 'Get yourself

[![Safety record: hours lost through avoidable accidents. 'Get yourself a Zero too!', 1944 US poster: War Department safety](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/safety-record-get-yourself-a-zero-too-1944.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/safety-record-get-yourself-a-zero-too-1944.jpg)

# Safety record: hours lost through avoidable accidents. 'Get yourself a Zero too!'

War Department safety poster: a smiling woman war worker in a cap points her thumb at a chalkboard on which the heading 'Hours lost through avoidable accidents' ends in a hand-drawn zero. A smiling airman in goggles and flying helmet sits at lower left. The slogan 'Get yourself a Zero too!' borrows the name of the Japanese fighter plane for a perfect safety record, a transfer of combat success onto factory work.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

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

```
SAFETY RECORD
Hours Lost Through
AVOIDABLE ACCIDENTS
"GET YOURSELF
A 'ZERO' TOO!"
[signature: ADOLPH TREIDLER]
WAR DEPARTMENT SAFETY COUNCIL
[emblem text, small: U.S. ARMY SAFETY PROGRAM]
[imprint: U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1944—O—[illegible]]
```

[← ...Remember Me? I'm Still Fighting You! (Official Navy Poster)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/remember-me-still-fighting-you-navy-1944/) [Sh-h-h! Silence means security! →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/shh-silence-means-security-1944/)

## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques

- [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer)
- [Clay cylinder with the Ehulhul inscription of Nabonidus, king of Babylon, describing work on three temples](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cylinder-nabonidus-ehulhul-inscription-555bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Seated limestone statue of Hatshepsut as king, with feminine royal titles on the throne, reassembled from fragments broken up at Deir el-Bahri](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/hatshepsut-seated-statue-limestone-met-1458bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer, Testimonial)
- [Glazed-brick panel with a striding lion, from Babylon (reign of Nebuchadnezzar II)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ishtar-gate-panel-striding-lion-nebuchadnezzar-ii-604bce/) (Neo Babylonian Empire · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Limestone relief block of Ramesses II wearing the White Crown, a jubilee relief from his temple at Herakleopolis](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/jubilee-relief-ramesses-ii-herakleopolis-met-05-4-256/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Transfer)
- [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account.
- [Gypsum alabaster slab inscribed in cuneiform, from Nimrud (Kalhu), reign of Ashurnasirpal II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/nimrud-slab-ashurnasirpal-ii-inscription-883bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Transfer, Glittering generalities)
- [Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed with the name of Xerxes the Great in four languages (Old Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Egyptian), 486 to 466 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/xerxes-jar-four-languages-486bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Transfer)