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 Famous Safety Quotes

• “Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give” – Dr Robert Long
• “Telling me to be careful is very different to saving my life” – Phil LaDuke
• “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”― Albert Einstein
• “Concern for man himself and his safety must always for the chief interest of all technical endeavors.” -Albert Einstein
• “Anyone who believes that they have common sense has simply forgotten who taught them what they know.” – Alan Quilley
• “A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” Proverbs 22:3
• “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” ― Albert Einstein
• “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” ― Albert Einstein
• “What is now proven was once only imagined.” Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain! – William Blake
• Was it wrong to have sex with the cleaning woman on my desk?  If I had only seen the safety compliance video, this wouldn’t have been a problem. George, Seinfeld
• “People don’t care what you know until they know you care” – Corrie Pitzer, Safemap International, from 2009 PPHSA presentation

• “Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity” – Einstein
• Sir Brian Appleton after Piper Alpha:  “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”.
• Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.  ~William Shakespeare
  • For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.  ~Eleanor Everet
  • Safety doesn’t happen by accident.  ~Author Unknown
  • “Safety First” is “Safety Always.”  ~Charles M. Hayes
  • Better a thousand times careful than once dead.  ~Proverb
  • Precaution is better than cure.  ~Edward Coke
  • Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy.  ~Author Unknown
  • Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
  • Guard himself as he may, every moment’s an ambush.  ~Horace
  • Safety means first aid to the uninjured.  ~Author Unknown
  • Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen – they are caused.  ~Ernest Greenwood
  • Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.  ~Author Unknown
  • Chance takers are accident makers.  ~Author Unknown
  • Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car.  ~Author Unknown
  • It’s better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash.  ~Author Unknown
  • Luck runs out but safety is good for life.  ~Author Unknown
  • There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.  ~James Thurber
  • Accidents hurt – safety doesn’t.  ~Author Unknown
  • Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.  ~Author Unknown
  • The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.  ~Author Unknown
  • Working without safety is a dead-end job.  ~Author Unknown
  • Know safety, no injury.  No safety, know injury.  ~Author Unknown
  • We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a man made problem can be solved by men and women.  ~W.H. Cameron
  • Carelessness doesn’t bounce; it shatters.  ~Hartman Jule
  • Safety never takes a holiday.  ~Author Unknown
  • When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.  ~Author Unknown
  • While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work.  ~Author Unknown
  • Hearing protection is a sound investment.  ~Author Unknown
  • To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.  ~Author Unknown
  • Your safety gears are between your ears.  ~Author Unknown
  • Personal protective equipment is self-defense.  ~Author Unknown
  • Tomorrow – your reward for working safely today.  ~Author Unknown
  • Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches.  ~Author Unknown
  • Don’t learn safety by accident.  ~Author Unknown
  • Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety.  ~Australian Traffic Rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938
  • Safety is as simple as ABC – Always Be Careful.  ~Author Unknown
  • Safety isn’t expensive, its priceless.  ~Author Unknown
  • Be alert!  Accidents hurt.  ~Author Unknown
  • Better dead sure than sure dead.  ~Author Unknown
  • When safety is a factor, call in a contractor.  ~Author Unknown
  • Wishing won’t keep you safe – safety will.  ~Author Unknown
  • Working safely is like breathing – if you don’t, you die.  ~Author Unknown
  • The safest risk is the one you didn’t take.  ~Author Unknown
  • Safety isn’t just a slogan, it’s a way of life.  ~Author Unknown