Work Safely

56 posters on health and safety at work from 1910-2000, from the collections of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. The posters warn, inform, and try to change worker behavior. The page is in Dutch, so here’s a crude translation of the four sections:

• Traditional safety posters, 1922-1963, primarily concerned with preventing accidents.
• Posters on safety and working conditions, 1955-2000, addressing broader working conditions such as those is laid down in the Working Conditions Act.
• Foreign safety posters from outside the Netherlands.
• Historical overview of industrial safety in the Netherlands. An essay in Dutch with links to a few posters.