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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.

Pigments: mills for grinding colours, and a man grinding at a muller, with a ventilator hood above. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1824.

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.

A boy being introduced to safe industrial practices by an older man wearing a cloth cap. Colour lithograph.

Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

The little book of safety solutions / Safetyshop.

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.

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.

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Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

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.

The little book of safety solutions / Safetyshop.

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.

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.