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Maryland State Fireman's Association, Wylie Donaldson Jr., Maryland State Fireman's Association, Unknown

Wylie Donaldson Jr. is the Vice President of the Odenton, Maryland Volunteer Fire Department and winner of the National Volunteer Fire Council’s…

Tags: Firefighting, Local, Maryland, Safety, State, Volunteerism

Travin, V., Why are you luring my people away from me, Rutgers, 1973

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1973

The people choose to work in those places
That have well-organized and clean…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Fighting Pencil, Labor Safety, Safety, Satire, Soviet Union

Wellbee Poster, CDC, 1964

In this poster, Wellbee cheerfully reminds the viewer to “be well” and “be clean” by washing his or her hands regularly, suggesting a clear connection…

Tags: Campaign, CDC, Cleanliness, Fitness, Health, Polio, Safety, Wellbee

Salem News, Unsung Heroine Program, Salem News, 2012

Victoria Budson, left, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, meets with Kimberly Flynn at the end of the Unsung Heroines…

Tags: Massachusetts, Mental Illness, Safety, Unsung Heroines, Victoria Budson, Women, Workers

National Archives, Tenement House Act, National Archives, ca. 1900

In 1867, 495,000 people in New York City were living in tenement buildings. Overcrowding (in some areas, a population density of 240,000 people per…

Tags: Housing, New York, NYC, Overcrowding, Safety, Tenement House

U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, No date given

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work. This law created…

Tags: Health, Labor, OSHA, Safety, Security

NASA, NASA Safety/Health Reporting Sequence, NASA, 2017

Everyone at NASA is responsible for using established procedures to report suspected safety or health hazards to appropriate officials. No employee…

Tags: Hazards, Health, NASA, Safety, Space

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Magnet Safety Poster, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Undated

This safety poster was issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, under the Neighborhood Safety Network project. It warns parents about…

Tags: Consumer Product Safety Act, Magnet Safety Poster, Magnets, Safety

Lipton, Lipton's Coffee Label, National Archives, 1906

"After the Pure Food and Drugs Act passed in 1906, labels began to cater to sensitive consumers. This coffee label promises “absolutely pure coffee…

Tags: Coffee Label, Eating, FDA, Safety

Part of the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks, Florence Kelley, Secretary, National Consumers' League, Library of Congress, Undated

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
Florence Kelley, National Consumers League…

Tags: Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Florence Kelley, National Consumers' League, Safety, Workers