Quotes About Safety

To reduce dangers at night, people covered fires with a kind of domed lid called a coverfeu (from which comes the word curfew)

And then you might learn, as we did from a local, that the reason hundreds of starlings in flight will twist and turn in unison is because the ones on the outside are constantly trying to get to the inside where they feel safer. Some

Poor lighting, absence of handrails, confusing patterns on the treads, risers that are unusually high or low, treads that are unusually wide or narrow, and landings that interrupt the rhythm of ascent or descent are the principal design faults that lead to accidents.

When more than one teenager is in a car, for instance, the risk of an accident multiplies by 400 percent.

As many as one-third of all stair accidents occur on the first or last step, and two-thirds occur on the first or last three steps.

Atul Gawande has written, "is getting clinicians like me to do the one thing that consistently halts the spread of infections: wash our hands.

As late as 1921, twenty-seven people perished in a stove fire on a train near Philadelphia.

It costs nothing to buckle up and clearly has the potential to save you from exiting through the windscreen like superman.

was first assigned security protection during the primaries, when I was a governor viewed as a long shot for the nomination.

Nuclear power kills far, far fewer people than cars do. For that matter, it kills far fewer people than any fossil fuel.

High-profile accidents at Three Mile Island in the United States, Chernobyl in the former U.S.S.R., and Fukushima in Japan put a spotlight on all these risks. There are real problems that led to those disasters, but instead of getting to work on solving those problems, we just stopped trying to advance the field.

Every day in America is a day with a shooting.

You don't need a weapon to protect yourself.

Do not fuck with gun nuts because they are nuts about their guns.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

New Rule: For at least the next generation, the Crocodile Hunter clan has to leave nature alone. This week, the late Steve Irwin's youngest son was bitten by a boa constrictor. Authorities don't know exactly what went wrong, but they think the accident might have happened when a bunch of idiots let a four-year-old fuck around with a giant snake.

Guns are made for killing. That's the only thing they're for. And they don't give a flying-flip what they kill. It's the people handling them who have to take all the responsibility. You always handle a gun like your life and the life of anybody around you depends on how safe and careful you are, 'cause it does.

C++ protects against accident, not against fraud.

There is some pleasure in being on board a ship battered by storms when one is certain of not perishing.

All things can be deadly to us, even the things made to serve us; as in nature walls can kill us, and stairs can kill us, if we do not walk circumspectly.

Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be: if there is a precipice below, although his reason may convince him that he is safe, his imagination will prevail.

Why put an alarm where you are not?

d.c. is the nation's capital. It also leads the country in murder