Health and safety organisations typically use a variety of strategies to get their messages across to the general public, from posters to roadside billboards, from radio and television announcements to stalls at shopping centres and fairs. Free booklets and pamphlets carry take-home information - but where should the householder keep them for quick reference in an emergency? The owners of this particular set of booklets logically decided that the family car was the appropriate place to store advice on first-aid, accident-scene procedures, drink-driving, holiday safety and venomous bites. Their glove-box accumulation from the 1980s augments the Museum's collection of material documenting the constants and variables in approaches to accidents and emergencies over the years.

Published for the Federal Office of Road Safety, Department of Transport, Commonwealth of Australia by the Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra. It was printed by Finepress Offset Printing Pty Ltd. The copyright date is 1985.

'Before other help arrives' was amongst a collection of other safety and first aid booklets kept in the glove-box of the donor's family car since the 1980s.

Booklet, safety and first aid, 'Before other help arrives', paper, published by the Federal Office of Road Safety / Department of Transport / Commonwealth of Australia, Australia, 1985

This 16-page booklet has a coloured cover, mostly yellow with black and red text. It provides information on what to do at the scene of a car accident.

Made: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory; 1985

Used: Sydney, New South Wales

2005/3/4

1985

210 mm

147 mm

1 mm