Excellent gallery of old British safety posters

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Can I just say that “Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents” is a marvelous thing?

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Years ago a website I used to contribute to did a take on that one with an alternate caption - something to the effect of:
The snake men from Mars invaded again last week. We beat them back handily with our superior rotating shaft technology. Buy war bonds to keep our boys turning!

I got the one above from where I used to work - on a Union Bulletin Board (they apparently felt following the customer’s contractual specifications was offensive, customer had audacity to cite product for non-compliance)

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The absolute best reason for a rocket launch failure I have ever head of was “malicious compliance”. In other words, “I know how this job should be done, but you insist I do it your way, so I will, & see how you like it.”

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