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Concept

Industrial safety

Images

  • 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.
All images (12)

Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

    | Date: [1938]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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.

    Lukács, Endre, 1906-2001. | Date: 1950 | Reference: 663458i
    • Books

    The little book of safety solutions / Safetyshop.

    Signs & Labels Ltd. Safetyshop. | Date: [2003]
    • Pictures

    Three profiles of a forearm, warning how the three main kinds of tissues can be damaged by using handtools wrongly. Colour lithograph for the Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften, 2001.

    Vereinigung der Metall-Berufsgenossenschaften. | Date: 2001 | Reference: 757149i
    • Pictures

    A worker operating a pneumatic drill, with all but the drill bit out of focus, representing invisible detrimental effects of noise on health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1993.

    | Date: [1993?] | Reference: 814492i
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