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  • High-level building maintenance workers using a harness for safety. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • An artificial hand holding a sheet of glass. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris, 1945.
  • Building accidents. Colour lithograph by A. Th. Schwarz, ca. 1934.
  • A plant with fingers growing out of the stem; advertising care in handling machine tools etc. in order to protect the fingers. Colour lithograph after Lewitt-Him.
  • An adjustable spanner placed on a girder from which it could fall. Colour lithograph after Blake.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving, 1737.
  • Bent nails protruding from the lid of an opened crate. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • A bent and rusty nail; advertising tetanus vaccination. Colour lithograph after B. Chadebec, 1987.
  • A hornet, and a metal band which has sprung loose from around a crate, comparing the effects of the two. Colour lithograph after G.R. Morris.
  • A circular saw properly set up and equipped. Colour lithograph after Pat Keely, 1943.
  • Samuel Wood, a man whose shoulder and arm were torn off in an accident at a mill. Engraving.
  • A man tripping up: avoidance of accidents in factories by keeping gangways clear. Colour lithograph by A. Th. Schwarz, ca. 1934.
  • A first-aider tends to a man bleeding profusely after a fall off a broken ladder; a message about HIV/AIDS and accidents in the workplace; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • A booted foot about to tread on hazards (shown as vignettes): a loose bolt on the ground, defective floorboards, and untied laces). Colour lithograph after Arthur G. Mills.