Posted By John Webster Try this environmental one "There is no cost benefit to us in driving improvements. If we help develop new technologies, the legislators will tighten controls just because it can now be done. We at (major international oil company) will continue to put stuff down the pipe for as long as we are allowed to put stuff down the pipe" Said to me by a senior oil company exec about 10 years ago when I was trying to get them to sign up to a programme to evaluate technologies for reducing toxic hydrocarbon discharges into the sea from offshore production facilities.

Posted By Derek Holt see not seen :)

Posted By Gareth Williams "Safety is never first" Ron Mckinnon

Posted By Tony Brunskill Iceburg, what Iceburg? Guess Who!!

Posted By Malcolm Fryer To enlarge more on Tony's posting above. "When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident ... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort". Captain Smith was regarded as a 'safe captain' and, for the period, he probably was. Yet he had been in command of the Germanic when on 16 February 1899 she capsized at her New York pier from ice accumulations in her rigging and superstructure. And he had commanded RMS Olympic when she had been damaged in collision with H.M.S. Hawke in September 1911. Earlier, in June 1911, while maneuvering Olympic into a New York pier, he had damaged a tugboat with the thrust from one of the liner's propellers. It seemed that Captain Smith - along with most contemporary liner captains - had much to learn about the displacement effects of so huge a hulk of the vessel he now commanded. Titanic RMS Captain,E. J. Smith, Quote 1907

Posted By sylvia I wonder if Sir JHJ was simply paraphrasing Louis Allen to whom the quote "minimising loss is as much improvement as maximisation of profit" is attributed.

Posted By Descarte One I picked up recently, not safety related but a good one all the same Never argue with an idiot, they bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience

Posted By Jonathan McCoy "Its all fun and games until someone loses an eye"

Posted By Gary IMD(UK) Or more sensibly... 'Safety is, without doubt, the most crucial investment we can make. And the question is not what it costs us, but what it saves' Robert E. McKee, Chairman & MD. Conoco (UK) Ltd. Take care!

Posted By JWG "Infamy, infamy, the HSE has got it in for me" Network Rail bosses (joking)

Posted By Tony Brunskill An old boss of mine: In the world of the blind a one eyed man is king! Must be quoting someone else cos he was not that bright.

Posted By Gilly Margrave Not a H&S one but more a marketing and training one. My old dad used to say "If you put Sh*t in a jar and label it ginger some begger will buy it" Gilly

Posted By Dave Dowan " iF you think Health and Safety is expensive , try having an accident " Stelios (easy jet) Dave