Through the centuries the work place safety was improving gradually. You would be shocked how dangerous it was to be a factory worker in the early days of the industrial revolution. Or how many horrible ways you may die if you would serve on a ship of the East India Company.

Last century with all of its countless strikes, riots, and revolutions has brought us not only a 40-hours work week and a social security, but also a long list of the workplace safety rules.

Not all people are using those achievements of our civilization, though. This Paradoxoff Planet post is full of the truly Not Safe For Work pictures.

• Scary workplace safety posters

Body painting is one of the most beautiful and fascinating forms of body art. Unlike tattoos, this form of body art is temporary, painted onto the human skin.

Such painting stored on the body from a few hours to a couple weeks. Body art festivals annually held all over the world. These festivals bring together professional artists from around the world, as well as the amateurs. The biggest event in this form of art is the World Festival of body art in Portschach in Austria. During this festival thousand of visitors have the opportunity to see the incredible beauty of participants’ works.

• Stunning and realistic body art
• Optical illusions in body art