15 June 1890

Safety and Work

An exhibition in the Paleis voor Volksvlijt in Amsterdam opened on June 15, 1890 was the first to focus on safety at work. This exhibition ushered in the Veiligheidsmuseum (Safety Museum), established in 1893, and closing some one hundred years later as the Nederlands Instiuut voor Arbeidsomstandigheden (NIA, Netherlands Institute for work conditions). The IISH has the NIA collection: hundreds of posters from Holland as well as other countries and glass slides about safety at work. Here is the first known poster about safety: "Why didn?t you wear a cap like me? It is dangerous to have your hair unprotected near machinery and other mechanisms."

See also:

•  Exhibition 'Against Risks and Calamities' (in Dutch)

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