Head Secure, Shaft Sound [Poster] Leonard Cusden

Artist: Leonard Cusden
Publisher: Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
Date: 1940’s/50’s
Size: 510 x 760
Print: Offset
Condition: (B+) Body creasing. Tanning. Occasional small edge tare.

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This poster, titled "Head Secure, Shaft Sound", is a classic example of mid-20th-century British workplace safety propaganda, designed to promote safe tool use. Created by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), a UK organization founded in 1916 to reduce industrial injuries, it was published during the 1940s or 1950s, a period of heightened safety awareness post-World War II.

Leonard Cusden (1898–1979) was a British commercial artist and poster designer who created hundreds of influential safety posters for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

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