1980s safety-album page

Description

Page of a 1980s Angang safety-work photo album, each photograph mounted with a typed caption strip; from a private family collection. This page: an oval green sign reading 事故为零 ('Zero Accidents') mounted below massive gas pipelines at a plant road, potted flowers at its base, a truck passing under the bridge beyond. The caption records that at the end of 1983 Angang, breaking with the assumption that deaths and major equipment accidents were inevitable in a giant metallurgical enterprise, set 'zero accidents' as its fighting goal.

Significance to the comparison

A date-stamped turn in industrial culture: the 1983 'zero accidents' goal, photographed as street furniture. The safety world of the 1990 'Safety Weekly' photos begins here.

Provenance

Field collection

Photographed in Anshan, July 2026; contributed by a participating family. Original held by the family.

Evidence media

• Photograph of the object (web copy shown; original held privately).

Sources single-source record — corroborating source pending

1. Anshan field collection, July 2026 (photograph; original held by the contributing family).