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  • 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 boy being introduced to safe industrial practices by an older man wearing a cloth cap. Colour lithograph.
  • The danger of leaving a hammer on top of a step-ladder. Colour lithograph.
  • Two men carrying a ladder. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • Two men carrying a ladder. Colour lithograph, ca. 1948.
  • High-level building maintenance workers using a harness for safety. Colour lithograph after Sompek, 1929.
  • Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.
  • Builders on a wooden scaffold let a bucket and some bricks fall down into the street. Colour lithograph after G. Kurt, 192-.
  • 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.
  • Look to the right : look to the left.
  • Don't play on the road : pasteurised milk.
  • Look first : there is sure to be a vehicle coming!
  • The face of a man wearing goggles, his right goggle cracked. Colour lithograph after L. Cusden.
  • Run no risks : phone 498 : pasteurised milk / Greenhill Farm Dairy Ltd.
  • 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- (?).
  • A hand protected by a guard from getting caught in the cogwheels of a machine. Colour lithograph by H. Kominek, ca. 1957.
  • A painter on a crane, eating a meal, while a cleaner tells him to eat his food elsewhere; advertising the value of cleanliness for safety in the building trades. Colour lithograph after L. Fries, 192-.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1979.
  • 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.
  • 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-.
  • 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-.
  • Bilston, England: men making steel in the melting shop of the British Steel steelworks. Aquatint by H.N. Eccleston, 1981.
  • A working man with two children; advertising an exhibition in Essen on occupational health and accident prevention. Colour lithograph, 1925.