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title: Accidents are Bottlenecks - Prevent Them
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-accidents-are-bottlenecks-1942/
description: A ship's hull is stuck inside a green bottle, with an anchor and starfish below, under the line 'Accidents are bottlenecks'.
section: Collection
---

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# Accidents are Bottlenecks - Prevent Them

A ship's hull is stuck inside a green bottle, with an anchor and starfish below, under the line 'Accidents are bottlenecks'. The tell for transfer is the borrowing of the wartime production-bottleneck idea to frame workplace accidents as a delay to the war effort rather than only a personal harm.

## 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

```
Pat Keely '42

ACCIDENTS
ARE BOTTLENECKS
PREVENT THEM

Issued by the Ministry of Labour and National Service and produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents,
Terminal House, 52, Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1.
M.L/76
Printed by LOXLEY BROS. LTD.
```

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