Quotes About Safety

How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Stressful conditions from outside school are much more likely to intrude into the classroom in high poverty schools. Every one of ten stressors is two to three times more common in high poverty schools-- Student hunger, unstable housing, lack of medical and dental care, caring for family members, immigration issues, community violence and safety issues.

Mercaptan. They add it to natural gas so you can smell it if you have a leak in the house.

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Scuba diving is itself a hazardous sport. To do it without any training is tantamount to playing Russian roulette with a loaded revolver.

Nothing is more dangerous than a place of safety.

Si se encuentra en el exterior de su casa y al aire libre, no puede hacer nada salvo aceptar su destino —anunciaba el artículo—. Si está en su casa, mire por las ventanas para ver si caen pájaros de los árboles, gatos y perros, personas que caen al suelo y se ahogan, coches que chocan y pánico general, se trata de todos los signos de que se ha producido un ataque con gas.

It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat.

The simplest, most plausible explanation I can think of is that somebody offered her a lift. A car pulled up—" "Or a van," said Strike. Robin had, indeed, reached the same conclusion he had. "Someone she knew—" "Or someone who seemed safe. An elderly man—" "Or what she thinks is a woman." "Exactly," said Robin.

Naval aviation, they believed, was not inherently dangerous. Sure, there were risks, but if you were good—really good, like they were—nothing bad would happen.

Most of the time they buy what other people buy. They move in great schools, like bluefish, all identical. There is safety in numbers. If one wants Schnabel, they all want Schnabel, if one buys a Keith Haring, two hundred Keith Harings will be sold.

The vigilant cyclist expects serious ineptitude from strangers in traffic, and therefore is not surprised or angry when it has to be endured. The vigilant cyclist keeps the head up and the eyes forward unless absolutely necessary to look elsewhere. The vigilant cyclist is not a trusting cyclist, but makes up for this lack with a load of patience. [...] The vigilant cyclist will not be faked out or lulled into complacency by the semisadistic urban spirits and their tricks.

But if you want to make a place safe for people to take on culprits, and admit their own bad behaviors too, it's crucial to treat alleged jerks with dignity and respect. That means starting with calm and backstage conversations with them and giving them chances to change. It also means realizing that some people aren't usually jerks, but there is something about the characters they work with, their customers

fear of taking responsibility, especially the sense that it is safer to do nothing, or something bad, than the right thing.

it's sometimes wise to add rather than remove communication barriers—and physical distance is one of the most protective barriers.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside. —Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge. – Psalm 91:4

The fear of man brings a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord shall be safe. – Proverbs 29:25

He who keeps you will not slumber. – Psalm 121:3