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.

The booklet was produced by HBA ('Registered as a hospital and medical benefits organisation') with assistance from the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories and the Royal Life Saving Society, Australia.

"Watch out' 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, 'Watch out: surviving venomous bites', paper, published by HBA, Australia, 1983

The 16-page illustrated booklet has a mainly yellow cover with graphics of snake, spider and octopus, stating that it is a 'Revised 1983 edition'. It provides advice on how to manage venomous snake, spider and marine bites with contact details for the Poisons Information Centre in each Australian state.

Made: Australia; 1983

Used: Sydney, New South Wales

2005/3/1

1983

207 mm

144 mm

1 mm