'Oil - A Slip in Every Drip - Wipe it Up'
A large drop of oil encloses a worker in overalls sliding backwards on a patch of oil, under the line 'a slip in every drip, wipe it up'. The tell is the fear appeal: a small spill is shown as a direct cause of a fall and injury.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Ministry of Labour and National Service, produced by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents; artist Pat Keely; printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd.
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- 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 Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, 50 years from publication, expired before 1996; no URAA restoration)
Ministry of Labour and National Service; artist Pat Keely, 1941; printed by Loxley Bros. Ltd. US National Archives, NAID 44266843 (44-PF-314).
Text on the object
OIL a slip in every drip wipe it up 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. ML/63 Printed by LOXLEY BROS. LTD.
