Quotes About Safety

It has to do with being open, with a willingness to share information about safety problems without the fear of being nailed for them.

This is at the heart of the professional pilot's eternal conflict," writes Wilkinson in a comment to the November Oscar case. "Into one ear the airlines lecture, "Never break regulations. Never take a chance. Never ignore written procedures. Never compromise safety." Yet in the other they whisper, "Don't cost us time. Don't waste our money. Get your passengers to their destination—don't find reasons why you can't.

Safety improvements come from organizations monitoring and understanding the gap between proceedures and practice

Oh, and what about the nurse? She was fired and charged as a criminal. That's Newton, too. If there are really bad effects, there must have been really bad causes. A dead patient means a really bad nurse. Much worse than if the patient had survived. So much worse, she's got to be a criminal. Must be. We can't escape Newton even in our thinking about one of the most difficult areas of safety: accountability for the consequences of failure.

Indeed, automation does not fail often, which limits people's ability to practice the kinds of breakdown scenarios that still justifies their marginal presence in the system. Here, the human is painted as a passive monitor, whose greatest safety risks would lie in deskilling, complacency, vigilance decrements and the inability to intervene in deteriorating circumstances.

Safety and risk are made and broken the whole time, throughout your organization. You are not the custodian of an otherwise safe system that you need to protect from erratic human beings.

The question that drives safety work in a just culture is not who is responsible for failure, rather, it asks what is responsible for things going wrong. What is the set of engineered and organized circumstances that is responsible for putting people in a position where they end up doing things that go wrong?

And when the war is done and youth stone deadI'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

In bitter safety I awake, unfriended; And while the dawn begins with slashing rain I think of the Battalion in the mud. 'When are you going out to them again? Are they not still your brothers through our blood?

But death replied: "I choose him." So he went, And there was silence in the summer night; Silence and safety; and the veils of sleep. Then, far away, the thudding of the guns.

Making a dream come true is like taking control of an airplane high up in the stratosphere and landing it safely on the ground – a measure of forethought, skill and courage is definitely required.

Nadie le decía: Toñito, no juegues con la soga.

The scientific world is to be less threatening than was feared. It is to made safe for human beings. And the way to make it safe is to reflect on the foundation of knowledge.

Isn't it true, that in times of danger we strive with all our strength, and with all our hearts to protect our children?

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

Love isn't about honesty. It's about protecting the people you love from things that will hurt them. That's love

Better to live with one sheep, than be crowded with wolves.

Shield your heart from being stabbed, by giving it to no one.

See me safe up, and for my coming down let me shift for myself.

I deserve to have boundaries, and my boundaries are respected. I love and honor myself. I am safe. All is well.

Loving someone is such an inherently dangerous act. And yet, love, that's where safety lives.