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Industrial safety

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Accidents - Prevention

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Images from the collections

Images about Industrial safety

13 images from works
  • A worker in construction or in heavy manufacturing industry looking favourably at items of protective clothing; advertising the use of protective clothing in heavy industry. Colour lithograph, 1982.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • People on a skiing holiday with safe equipment; promoting use of iron-reinforced safety boots in the industrial workplace. Coloured lithograph by Atelier Börmel, 196- (?).
  • A skull, a tumbler of beer and a bottle of alcoholic drink; advertising the danger of alcohol as a cause of industrial accidents in Czechoslovakia, and contrasting it with milk. Colour lithograph, 193- (?).
  • Two men carrying a ladder. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • Explosion of an industrial oxygen container in a factory, causing death: before filling the reservoir of a gas motor, either nitrogen or carbon monoxide should have been used first. Colour lithograph, 192-.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • A hand which has lost two fingers, owing to attempts to clean dangerous machines while they are running. Colour lithograph by Jacob Jansma, 1949.
  • A hand which has suffered a bad wound while in contact with machinery owing to a finger ring which has broken and torn the flesh. Colour lithograph by E. Lukács, 1950.
  • A boy being introduced to safe industrial practices by an older man wearing a cloth cap. Colour lithograph.
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Works from the collections

242 works

    • Ephemera

    Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

    | Date: [1938]
    • Ephemera

    First ais for health & safety training budgets : 25% savings / Training Direct.

    | Date: [1996]
    • Ephemera

    Health and safety in small firms : discussion document / Health & Safety Commission.

    | Date: 1995
    • Ephemera

    Don't wait.. .. until an inspector calls : essential facts for small businesses and the self-employed / Health & Safety Commission.

    | Date: 1992
    • Ephemera

    Guidance to employers whose employees are not members of recognised independent trade unions : Safety Committees / Health & Safety Commission.

    | Date: 1990
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Related topics

Industrial accidents
World War II
Industrial hygiene
First Aid
Breathing apparatus
Germany
Occupational Health
Eye Protective Devices
Training
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