Stop - Your eyes are too delicate to trust to a fellow worker - Get First Aid
A close drawing of an eye shows a worker's finger and a spotted handkerchief corner being pushed at it, under a blue 'STOP'. The fear appeal is the image of possible damage to the eye, paired with the instruction to go to first aid rather than a workmate.
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, Home front
- 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 and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents; artist Pat Keely, 1941. U.S. National Archives, WWII Foreign Posters (44-PF-403).
Text on the object
STOP Your eyes are too delicate to trust to a fellow worker - Get First Aid 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/27 Printed by LOXLEY BROS. LTD. [signature in the artwork:] Pat Keely '41
