Quotes About Prevention

interlocks as forcing functions to prevent people from opening the door of the oven or disassembling the devices without first turning off the electric power: the interlock disconnects the power the instant the door is opened or the back is removed. In automobiles with automatic transmissions, an interlock prevents the transmission from leaving the Park position unless the car's brake pedal is depressed.

Ask "Why?" as many times as may be necessary to get to the root cause of the problem and then fix it so it can never occur again.

First, most accidents do not have a single cause: there are usually multiple things that went wrong, multiple events that, had any one of them not occurred, would have prevented the accident.

Cadence is the use of a regular, predictable rhythm within a process. This rhythm transforms unpredictable events into predictable events. It plays an important role in preventing variability from accumulating in a sequential process.

Suddenly my life wasn't boring or meaningless. There was something I had to do in order to keep a bad thing from happening.

Eliminate the cause of a mistake. Don't just clean it up.

He that would be safe from the acts of evil, must widely avoid the occasions.

but if you do not take the trouble with your children when they are young, they will give you trouble when they are old. Choose which you prefer.

Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.

But you can count the dead bodies from alcohol, tobacco, and legal pharmaceuticals by the millions.

Nobody had the power to bury a gun violence prevention bill, take a nap on immigration, or sweep major legislation under the rug and not vote on it.

Much as we do not permit convicted pedophiles to teach kindergarten or convicted hijackers to board airplanes, common sense dictates that individuals who have been imprisoned for plotting violence against abortion clinics should never again be permitted anywhere near such facilities.

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The best way to end a war is to make certain that it never happens. The best way to win a war is to change the shape of the battles to suit your needs.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Worry is throwing good shillings at trouble that hasn't happened yet.

As Mrs. Carter in another context observed, there are adequate financial resources available to fund adequate mental health if we simply invest in the right kinds of programs—the ones that we know work—rather than squandering millions and millions of dollars and lives in jails and prisons.

In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights spelled out a framework for holding governments accountable, followed in three years by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide.

The relatively new field of "adolescent medicine" focuses not only on the traditional medical model of diagnosis and treatment, but, perhaps more than any other subspecialty of medicine, on education and prevention.

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.

Learning from mistakes helps prevent the repetition of negative patterns.

A bowl of blueberries every other day has proven to dramatically reduce your chances of getting cancer or developing heart disease.