See over your load
Workplace safety poster: a figure carries a tall stack of boxes that hides everything above the waist, one foot about to step on a loose pipe, with the words 'See Over Your Load' lettered on the boxes. The technique is an implied-accident fear-appeal aimed at workers handling loads.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1944
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards (reproduced by permission of the British Ministry of Labour and National Service)
- 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, 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)
U.S. Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1696 (NAID 515367).
Text on the object
SEE OVER YOUR LOAD Reproduced by the United States Department of Labor, Division of Labor Standards, Washington, D. C. By Permission of the Ministry of Labour and National Service, London [imprint: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1944, remainder illegible] [handwritten: 44-PA-1696]
