Famous Safety Quotes to

Strengthen Your Safety Culture

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“Measuring performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give.” -Dr. Robert Long

“Safety is not an intellectual exercise to keep us in work. It is a matter of life and death. It is the sum of our contributions to safety management that determines whether the people we work with live or die.” -Sir Brian Appleton, safety assessor

“Safety is not a gadget, but a state of mind.” -Eleanor Everet, safety expert

“If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” -Stephen Covey

“A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” -Unknown

“Better to be late in this world instead of early to the next.” -Unknown

“Don’t do something detrimental to yourself. In hurting yourself, you obviously do damage to you, but you are part of the team, so when you damage yourself via a poor choice, you are hurting the team as well.” -Matt Forck, Safetystrat.com

“Shortcuts cut life short.” -Unknown

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re

right.” -Henry Ford

“You are your own last line of defense in safety. It boils

down to you.” -Kina Repp, workplace accident survivor & motivational speaker

“To one who believes that really good industrial conditions are the hope for a machine civilization, nothing is more heartening than to watch conference methods and education replacing police methods.”-Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor

“Error is pervasive. The unexpected is pervasive...What is not pervasive are well-developed skills to detect and contain these errors at their

early stages.” -Karl E. Weick, author, Managing the Unexpected

“A health and safety problem can be described by statistics but cannot be understood by statistics. It can only be understood by knowing and feeling the pain, anguish and depression and shattered hopes of the victim and of the wives, husbands, parents, children, grandparents and friends…”-George Robotham, safety advocate

“An incident is just the tip of the iceberg, a sign of a much larger problem below the surface.”-Don Brown, Owner, Director of Software Products and Services for BasicSafe

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work cultures and compliance with regulatory requirements. Extensive programming based on proven safety methodologies that

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