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Posted By AJM
This may have cropped up before but i was wondering in our quest to win the hearts and minds of people to embrace safety what sort of quotes do people use to capture their audience.
One I use is the old favourite "Safety is everyone's responsibility"
Or during a truck awareness session i finish with there where 70 people killed last year in truck/pedestrian incidents and 70 drivers killed those people, why knowing that wouldn't you act safer out there. There is always one who answers because you don't think it will happen to you. I reply how many of those 140 people do you think woke up that morning as they walked out their house said goodbye to their loved ones and thought it wont happen to me this morning. EVERY ONE!
Hopefully this hasn't come up too many times and some good ones come out. Including how to get people to take risk seriously.
Thanks in advance
Alan
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Posted By Manny
"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 an 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 have never been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort."
Captain Edward John Smith - RMS Titanic
I can't confirm that he actually said it.
Manny
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Posted By Carl West
i alway remember a quote from my good friend Robert Weiland during safety training.
"hey, listen... health and safety is no joke"
simple, but effective....
Carl
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Posted By Robert Weiland
Cheers Carl, I've copyrighted that quote.
My favourite is "In a phrase you cannot legislate against idiocy, therefore you must guard against it".
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Posted By AJM
I just thought of another pearl of wisdom.
"There is nothing less common than common sense"
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Posted By AJM
Thanks for the contributions thus far, I especially like the Titanic one.
It reminds me of I think it was in charge during the Piper Alpha disaster who said " If you think safety is expensive, try having an accident"
Alan
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Posted By Darren J Fraser
Not strictly safety related
Accept that some days you'll be the pigeon and some days you'll be the statue.
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Posted By Glyn Atkinson
Piper Alpha - the quote you wouldn't want to hear, and this is not being flippant in any way -
"So, which of these permits am I looking at ?"
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Posted By Ian Bennett
There are many quote websites around, I've spent many hours being amused by them, then forgetting them when needed.
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Posted By holmezy
dont know where it origionated, and suspect its been modified to suit whichever purpose at the time......
understand the health and safety rules....don't learn by accident!!
If anyone knows where there is a list of this sort of stuff, would be grateful.
Holmezy
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Posted By PaulA
Whilst away with the military I always tell my boss's that they can
"Use me' Abuse me.. Just don't hurt me!!'
It works.. But they do use and abuse!
PaulA
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Posted By Alan Haynes
my favourite
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”
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Posted By Richie
AJM,
How about this regarding safety whilst climbing?
"There are OLD climbers and there are BOLD climbers, but there are no OLD & BOLD climbers"
Richie
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Posted By Alan Nicholls
How true this one is I have no idea. I'm not quite that old.(It does feel like it sometimes.
Battle of Hastings 1066
If you don't watch it you will have someone's Eye out with that arrow.
Alan N
Sounds like a risk assessment to me.
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Posted By John D Crosby
Hi
Recently came across this one:
'Safety is, without doubt, the most crucial investment we make. And the question is not what it costs us, but what it saves'
John C
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Posted By Pete Stewart
How about - Not enough time for health & safety? Then how will you fit in time for the Coroners hearing?
Pete
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Posted By Larry Emmerson
You don't get used to noise
you just go deaf
Larry
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
how about this one. WHY?
Regards
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Posted By Jonathan Sandler CMIOSH
The other quote I use is 'what do I know i'm only a simple safety advisor.'
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Posted By Robert Weiland
One that seems to crop up again and agin with regards to safety...
"HOW MUCH ?"
It's at that point we start to relay the benfits.
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Posted By Mark Morgan
Another Loss message. I use this when training The Management:-
"The first duty of business is to survive and the guiding principle of business economics is not the maximisation of profit – it is the avoidance of loss…”
Peter Druker
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Posted By Gareth W Jones
I use this one in my safety Behaviour Training...To ASSUME makes an ASS of U and ME!!
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Posted By Mrs P
I read this one recently.
...more disasters are caused by those who command than by those who fortuitously turn the wrong knob and dump the wrong chemical.
P.T.W. Hudson
This was a quote relating to Three Mile Island
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Posted By Richie
When dealing with contractual commitments, a golden rule regarding verbal blunders was related to me.
It went "A closed mouth gathers no feet"
I recall it every time I deal with contracts.
Richie
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Posted By Brian John Abbs
I saw one a while ago that went something like
Hug the kids at home, and belt them in the car.
The safest car in the world has all the latest devices. Air bag, seat belts, and a six inch spike on the steering wheel" Ralph Nader
So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes. Steve Irwin
out of this nettle, danger, we grasp this flower, safety. Hotspur in Henry IV. William Shakespeare
I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. William Shakespeare.
I don't want to die without any scars. Tyler Durden in Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk
If it happens once, it might happen again. If it happens twice it will happen again.
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Posted By Carl West
This is one of my all time favourites:
This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody.
There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it.
Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did.
Somebody got angry (about that) because it was Everybody's job.
Everybody knew that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realised that Somebody wouldn't do it.
And (/It ended up that) Everybody blamed Somebody because (/when) Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
PS - dont put this on show if you have a sensitive office environment. A few people may thing its aimed at them....
Carl
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Posted By Carl West
"think" its aimed at them (sorry)
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Posted By Merv Newman
A couple :
"Nothing is so urgent or so important that we can't take time to do it safely"
"Safety is for life"
Merv
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Posted By Roger Uncles
A couple I find that bring home the point.
1. If you think Safety is expensive, try adding up the cost of an accident.
2. Surgeons transplant hearts and lungs, but they can't replace eyes or ears.
3. Cats have 9 lives, but you only have one
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Posted By Anthony Slinger
To be used when talking to electricians :- Red to black, black to red, blue to bits.
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