The Malaga Red Cross headquarters hosts the exhibition “Prevention Posters of the 20th Century”
The capital of the Costa del Sol hosts the exhibition “Prevention Posters of the 20th Century”, organized by This is the second time that the exhibition has been installed in the city, after having been seen in 2017 at the capital's airport.
Luis Utrilla, president of the provincial assembly of the Red Cross of Málaga, welcomed the attendees, whom he thanked for their presence and to whom he highlighted that the exhibition is open to all citizens, "specifically to the different cultural concerns related to safety and occupational health, as well as the provision of services to third parties." “The work of the Red Cross is very simple, we are people who help people,” he concluded.
Silvia Vela, Director of Communication and International Relations of "We are very fond of the Red Cross not only for its great social work, but also because various Red Cross Assemblies from different provinces have submitted to our Escolático Zaldívar awards, which reward the best practices in occupational risk prevention," to conclude by stating that "of the thirteen times they have submitted to the awards, they have achieved it five times, and for this reason I once again convey to you our satisfaction for this collaboration," he concluded.
Antonio José Millán, director of the AXA Prevention Chair, was later responsible for taking a guided tour of these posters to review the history of risk prevention labor in Spain during the last century.
They also attended the appointment Sonia Medrano, Southern Territorial Director of Almirón, second vice president of the College of Social Graduates of Málaga, and Cristina Rivera, director of the Fraternidad-Muprespa Fuengirola delegation.
This is the exhibition of Prevention Posters of the 20th century
The exhibition has accumulated 40 locations in 25 provinces and has traveled 30,000 kilometers, reaching an audience of about ten million people. Belonging to the La Retrografia collection and focused on the themea of safety at work, prevention and health labor, each poster of those that are part of the exhibition, makes a free audio guide available to the visitor using a QR code, to better understand each work and contextualize the exhibition.
In addition to the value of the posters as testimony to the way in which risk prevention was communicated in the last century, they are also first-rate artistic works, signed, in some cases by important poster artists from a hundred years ago, such as Callejo, Niebla or Cerro.
After exhibiting in Santander, Vigo, Granada, Murcia, Orihuela, Ciudad Real, Valencia, León, Éibar and Oviedo, its next stops will be Pamplona and Almería.
