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#1 Posted : 27 February 2006 15:58:00(UTC)
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Posted By JayneAnne Ridgway
Help

Can anybody help me please!

I am shortly running a health and safety awareness week, and one of the objectives given me is to find inspirational quotes re Health and Safety and post on our e.mail (at work) system to all users, I have to find a fresh quote a day, so I need 5 quotes, and I can't even think of one, or where to find on the internet any inspirational quotes - can anybody help please!

many thanks
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#2 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:11:00(UTC)
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Posted By Ken Chappell
Safety first there is no second chance
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#3 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:12:00(UTC)
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Posted By JayneAnne Ridgway
Thanks Ken

My first Quote of the week!

really appreciated
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#4 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:14:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bob Thompson CMIOSH
Quote from HSE 2000

of all the accidents investigated in the past year, almost all of them could have been prevented by a little thinking and doing beforehand.

I like this one
Bob
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#5 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By Bob Thompson CMIOSH
we ran a design a poster campaign at work for staff and families the winning entry came from a 10 year old with the slogan

"Im a Hazard sombody stop me"
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#6 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:16:00(UTC)
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Posted By I H
there is a risk and cost to an action, but its insignificant next to the risk and cost of comfortable inaction. JFK I think.
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#7 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:22:00(UTC)
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Posted By Gordon Thelwell
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. ~Safety slogan of unknown origin

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused. ~Ernest Greenwood

Chance takers are accident makers. ~Author Unknown

It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash. ~Author Unknown

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~James Thurber

Accidents hurt - safety doesn't. ~Author Unknown

We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a manmade problem can be solved by men and women. ~W.H. Cameron

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

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
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#8 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:26:00(UTC)
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Posted By Richard Mathews
Regarding working off ladders:

No matter how quickly a job can be done. There is always time to fall.

Richard
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#9 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:26:00(UTC)
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Posted By JayneAnne Ridgway
Wow!!

Many thanks to you all

You have been a great help, I have so many too choose from now - where do I begin.

thank you once again
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#10 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:32:00(UTC)
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Posted By David J Jones
"Quality first, safety ALWAYS!"

David
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#11 Posted : 27 February 2006 16:33:00(UTC)
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Posted By Margaret Stokes
See http://www.consultnet.ie/Safety%20Slogans.htm

lots of slogans that may help.

Regards

Margaret
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