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: a man in a yellow hard hat reaches to the green board of the Angang Machinery Manufacturing Plant (鞍钢机械制[造厂], AN GANG JI XIE ZHI...) headed 警钟长鸣事故为零 ('Let the alarm bell ring long — zero accidents'), its tiles showing 1985年7月 and 182天为0 ('182 days at zero'). The caption explains the director-pulls-the-tag system (厂长拔牌制): the director's first act on arriving each day was to pull the safety-information tag.

Significance to the comparison

Everyday material evidence of working life at Angang (Anshan Iron & Steel), contributed from a family collection. Objects like this are the physical trace of the danwei world the oral histories describe.

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).