Worker compensation is a jolly unexampled affair , see only back to the Labor Movement in the former 1900s . Before that , accidental injury on the job were usually do by with either indifference or tatty take — after all , the median factory actor was making simple cents a day , so half a year ’s pay was patsy alteration for large companies .
But with doer rights came worker condom . And the problem of how to pass it , if not every worker was literate . Vivid , often gruesome posters depict the bad case scenario — electrocution , carbon monoxide poisoning , chopping of your thumb , etc.—became the average . A late post on the instance blog,50 Watts , unearth some fantabulous object lesson culled from a Dutch history archive .
It ’s gripping to see how styles changed as graphic design evolved . In the 20s and 30s , chemical and electrical energy were anthropomorphize as actual monsters , ghouls , and fauna . But as the Bauhaus ethos and Swiss design figure the picture , danger became an nonfigurative figure — a serial publication of semblance , typefaces , and symbols stage artfully on the varlet . Wonder which approach was more effective ? [ memory board of the Netherlandsvia50 Watts ]
get to the doors and window before you start the motor , from 1925 .
One speck . Monsters lurk on electric wires , from 1925 .
That ’s what find when the emergency door is barred ! from 1926 .
The lens hood was too high , from 1942 .
Carbon monoxide is an subtle threat , do n’t run generators in the service department , from 1942 .
Regularly check for safety gadget , from 1972 .
Protect your health ! from 1977 .
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