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The Health and Safety ClipArt gallery offers 35 illustrations of locks, fire and burglar alarms, vermin traps, and other illustrations of proper and improper practices related to household health and safety.

Burglar alarms like this one are designed to alert the user to danger. Sensors are connected to a control unit through a low voltage wiring that interacts with a response device.

Burglar Detention Alarm

Burglar alarms like this one are designed to alert the user to danger. Sensors are connected to a control…

A shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out.

Fire Alarm

A shout or bell to warn that fire has broken out.

A device, such as a siren, used in announcing the outbreak of a fire.

Fire Alarm

A device, such as a siren, used in announcing the outbreak of a fire.

The evils of alcohol. "The chap that closes many a good establishment."

The Evils of Alcohol

The evils of alcohol. "The chap that closes many a good establishment."

A steel bucket filled with sand which is used to put out fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted bright red and have the word 'Fire' stencilled on them in white lettering. They are placed in prominent positions in rooms or corridors.

Fire Bucket

A steel bucket filled with sand which is used to put out fires. Typically, fire buckets are painted…

This is a waste container featuring a refuse cover, in this container waste is temporarily stored.

Cover for Garbage Receptacle

This is a waste container featuring a refuse cover, in this container waste is temporarily stored.

Dental floss is either a bundle of thin nylon filaments or a plastic ribbon used to remove food and dental plaque from teeth. The floss is gently inserted between the teeth and scraped along the teeth sides, especially close to the gums.

Dental Floss Holder

Dental floss is either a bundle of thin nylon filaments or a plastic ribbon used to remove food and…

Armed robbery is less likely to happen than burglary, but it is a more dangerous threat to you, your employees, and your customers. Robbers choose targets that have cash readily available, accessible, and have loose security procedures. Even with the best precautions, robberies still occur

Device for Protection Against Robbers

Armed robbery is less likely to happen than burglary, but it is a more dangerous threat to you, your…

This is the illustration of the speaker implement to a burglar alarm equivalent, designed to alert the user to a specific danger.

Alarm Signal Device

This is the illustration of the speaker implement to a burglar alarm equivalent, designed to alert the…

A fire door is a type of door or movable barrier used as part of a passive fire protection system within buildings to prevent the spread of fire or smoke between separate sections. It is usually the only means of allowing people to pass through a fire resistant wall.

Fire Door

A fire door is a type of door or movable barrier used as part of a passive fire protection system within…

A structure or device, such as an outside stairway attached to a building, erected for emergency exit in the event of fire.

Fire Escape

A structure or device, such as an outside stairway attached to a building, erected for emergency exit…

An illustration of a man hold a woman's hand as they escape a fire.

Man and Woman Escaping Fire

An illustration of a man hold a woman's hand as they escape a fire.

A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control small fires, often in emergency situations. It is not intended for use on an out-of-control fire, such as one which has reached the ceiling, endangers the user (i.e. no escape route, smoke, explosion hazard, etc.), or otherwise requires the expertise of a fire department. Typically, a fire extinguisher consists of a hand-held cylindrical pressure vessel containing an agent which can be discharged to extinguish a fire.

Fire Extinguisher

A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device used to extinguish or control small fires, often…

"Fire extinuishers often contain a device for generating carbon dioxide rapidly, as by mixing sulphuric acid (b), or alum solution with sodium carbonate (a)." -Brownlee 1907

Fire Extinguisher

"Fire extinuishers often contain a device for generating carbon dioxide rapidly, as by mixing sulphuric…

A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device, easily portable by hand. Handheld extinguishers like these weigh anywhere from one half to fourteen kilograms.

Hand Fire Extinguisher

A fire extinguisher is an active fire protection device, easily portable by hand. Handheld extinguishers…

This portable fire extinguisher is a classic copper building type soda acid extinguisher. This can contains a mixed solution of water and sodium bicarbonate with tartaric acid, producing a propellant CO2 gas.

Portable Fire Extinguisher

This portable fire extinguisher is a classic copper building type soda acid extinguisher. This can contains…

"Why no one should spit on floors or sidewalks and why flies should be kept away from food." —Davison, 1910

Flies outside window

"Why no one should spit on floors or sidewalks and why flies should be kept away from food." —Davison,…

This fly trap was intended to prevent pest intrusion from household windows. This trap features a fold down screen which allows a view of the immediate outside area, while restricting entrance to flies and other pests through a see-through screen.

Window Purpose Fly Trap

This fly trap was intended to prevent pest intrusion from household windows. This trap features a fold…

A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, which is usually made out of metal or plastic. This can is suspended by a wooden framework, making it more accessible to dispose into.

Garbage Receptacle on a Stand

A waste container is a container for temporarily storing waste, which is usually made out of metal or…

Safety glasses are usually made with shatter-resistant plastic lenses to protect the eye from flying debris. Although safety lenses may be constructed from a variety of materials of various impact resistance, certain standards suggest that they maintain a minimum 1 millimeter thickness at the thinnest point, regardless of material. Safety glasses can vary in the level of protection they provide.

Round Safety Glasses

Safety glasses are usually made with shatter-resistant plastic lenses to protect the eye from flying…

A pipe or spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of an aqueduct or reservoir.

Hydrant

A pipe or spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of an aqueduct or reservoir.

A fire hydrant is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, and rural areas with municipal water service to enable firefighters to tap into municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire.

Fire Hydrant

A fire hydrant is an active fire protection measure, and a source of water provided in most urban, and…

An air freshener that disinfects and cleans rooms from unpleasant odors.

Hygiene Lamp

An air freshener that disinfects and cleans rooms from unpleasant odors.

This illustration shows how putrefying animal matters from a leaky drain and an overflowing cess-pool soak diagonally into the well and contaminate the well-water, which is pumped up and used by the family without, perhaps, a thought of danger from this terrible sanitary defect.

Leaky Drain

This illustration shows how putrefying animal matters from a leaky drain and an overflowing cess-pool…

A cigarette is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco leaves and reconstituted tobacco, combined with other additives then rolled or stuffed into a paper-wrapped cylinder

Cigarette Packer

A cigarette is a product consumed through smoking and manufactured out of cured and finely cut tobacco…

A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one end.

Tobacco Pipe

A device for smoking, consisting of a tube of wood, clay, or other material with a small bowl at one…

This refuse receptacle features a swivel handle for easy emptying access, removable lid for odor control, and is relative small enough for a wide variety of purposes.

Refuse Receptacle

This refuse receptacle features a swivel handle for easy emptying access, removable lid for odor control,…

A fire-proof chest or closet for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.

Safe

A fire-proof chest or closet for containing money, valuable papers, or the like.

A common household safe used to store valuable items.

Safe

A common household safe used to store valuable items.

An iron or iron and steel receptacle for protecting valuables against burglers and fire. Documents and possessions of value were protected in ancient times by placing them in ironbound oaken chests and in the charter-rooms of old mansions, but these have given way to fire and burglar-proof safes of modern construction.

Safe

An iron or iron and steel receptacle for protecting valuables against burglers and fire. Documents and…

An open spittoon sitting on the floor, near a table.

Open spittoon

An open spittoon sitting on the floor, near a table.

An active fire protection measure, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, onto which fire sprinklers are connected.

Automatic Sprinkler

An active fire protection measure, consisting of a water supply system, providing adequate pressure…

This is a household object intended to draw flies into a stick type board which traps pests.

Fly Trap

This is a household object intended to draw flies into a stick type board which traps pests.

a rat trap is a trap designed to catch rats.

Rat Trap

a rat trap is a trap designed to catch rats.

How the well often becomes impure and carries disease. A well near a barnyard or cesspool is likely to be unsafe for use. The liquids enter the soil, and sometimes follow along the crevice in rocks a hundred feet or more. Sewage, which is household waste, garbage, or dead animals cast into a stream, or placed near a well or spring, may cause many deaths among those using the water.

Well Water

How the well often becomes impure and carries disease. A well near a barnyard or cesspool is likely…