Inspiring Safety Quotes: A Collection to Empower and Motivate

"I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure."

- Princess Diana

"The sorrow and desolation which is brought into thousands of lives each year by utter thoughtlessness must feel a new resolve to make a habit of safety first."

- W. C. Durant

"Ask the people who work in the warehouse to start thinking about safety, and on a regular, periodic basis, review and discuss how they might work better. I encourage people to put a meeting on a calendar, once a month, at least to come together for an hour or 90 minutes to discuss ideas for improvement."

- Joseph Flahiff

"You are your own last line of defense in safety. It all boils down to you."

- Kina Repp

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The greatest responsibility of a leader is to give the people in your span of care grounded sense of hope for the future"

- Bob Chapman

"Safety has to be everyone’s responsibility… Everyone needs to know that they are empowered to speak up if there’s an issue."

- Captain Scott Kelly

"Safety is not an intellectual exercise to keep us in work. It is a matter of life and death."

- Sir Brian Appleton

"Safety has to be everyone’s responsibility… everyone needs to know that they are empowered to speak up if there’s an issue."

- Captain Scott Kelly

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."

- Henry Ford

"Train your employees on rack safety and they’ll identify and report the damage. Empower them to report damage and you’ll avoid accidents."

- Robert Bouchard

"Safety is our first concern, not deadlines. Nothing will happen until everything is ready, and we’re absolutely confident. This will be a safe operation."

- Mikhail Manin

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety."

- Proverbs 11:14 (King James Version)

"Any worker should be able to stop work if they feel there is a danger to continuing operations."

- Sean Lucas

"If you don’t know, ask. Working with people is far better than working against them — always bring together all the people and information available to you!"

- Aidan O’Shannessy

"I’m glad to see how young people are stepping up when it comes to safety. They are focused on safety rather than being told to be safe. It makes a difference when people own things."

- Scott Cam

"Work injuries and illnesses can affect every aspect of life for workers and their families."

- Maine Department of Labor

"Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal."

- David A. Morse

"Safety is not an intellectual exercise to keep us in work. It is a matter of our contributions to safety management that determines whether the people we work with live or die."

- Sir Brian Appleton

"It is my sincere wish and hope that the day will come when the protecting arms of Universal Safety will spread out over all industry and reach all the millions of workers who make industry possible."

- Charles M. Schwab

"Safety applies with equal force to the individual, to the family, to the employer, to the state, the nation and to international affairs. Safety, in its widest sense, concerns the happiness, contentment and freedom of mankind."

- William M. Jeffers

"There’s no better policy in society than pursuing the health and safety of its people."

- Ralph Nader

"The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise."

- Tacitus

"People don’t care what you know until they know you care."

- Corrie Pitzer

"Occupational safety and health are vital to the dignity of work."

- Juan Somavia

"You are your last line of defense in safety. It boils down to you."

- Kina Repp

"How employees manage health and safety in the workplace or how labor rights are respected are issues important for employees and investors alike. Companies can, and should, do good right alongside doing well."

- Tim Smith

"I do care a great deal about the environment. Still, my real work and my greatest challenge are trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety."

- Erin Brockovich

"If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow."

- Stephen Covey

"The future of the safety movement is not so much dependent upon the invention of safety devices as on the improvement of methods of educating people to the ideal of caution and safety."

- Walter Dill Scott

"One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard."

- Publilius Syrus

"If the owner or manager does not show an interest in preventing employee injury and illness, then the employees will probably not give it much thought either."

- Rhode Island Small Business Recovery Program

"Safety work is today recognized as an economic necessity. It is the study of the right way to do things."

- Robert W. Campbell

"Safety is never ‘attained’ but a work in progress in tension between ALARP (As Low As Reasonably Practible) and the Precautionary Principle."

- Rob Long

"The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking."

- Rob Long

"Your employees learn by example. If they don’t see you practising good safety habits, they won’t think safety is important."

- Electrical Construction & Maintenance

"Tomorrow: your reward for working safely today."

- Robert Pelton

"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Working safely is like breathing – if you don’t, you die."

- Jerry Smith

"If you don’t think it is safe, it probably isn’t."

- Jerry Smith

"For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind."

- Eleanor Everet

"Alternate tasks whenever possible, mixing non-computer-related tasks into the workday. This encourages body movement and the use of different muscle groups."

- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

"Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands."

- Jeff Cooper

"Paper doesn’t save people, people save people"

- Dan Petersen

"Safety brings first aid to the uninjured."

- F.S. Hughes

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"

- Benjamin Franklin

"Safety should never be a priority. It should be a precondition."

- Paul O Neill

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature."

- Helen Keller

"No trial is so large we can't overcome it together."

- Neil L. Andersen

"Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general."

- Surya Das

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety."

- Virgil

"Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Safety First is Safety Always."

- Charles Melville Hays

"We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers."

- William J. H. Boetcker

"Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security."

- Andy Stanley

"I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people."

- Donald Trump

"Safety is 30%. Common Sense, 80%. Compliance and the rest is good luck."

- Barry Spud

"Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality."

- Herman Kahn

"Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing."

- Will Smith

"Do not think because an accident hasn’t happened to you that it can’t happen."

- Safety saying, circa early 1900s

"Let's put the safety and security of the American people first."

- Mike Pence

"Safety is never a permanent state of affairs."

- Davos Seaworth

"Luck runs out but safety is good for life."

- Author Unknown

"Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless."

- Author Unknown

"Don’t learn safety by accident."

- Jerry Smith

"Better a thousand times careful than once dead."

- Proverb

"Safety saves sickness, suffering, sadness."

- Safety saying, circa early 1900s

"When a man touches a woman's body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul-parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security."

- Jim Anderson

"No Safety, Know Pain. Know Safety, No Pain."

- Author Unknown

"Carefulness costs you nothing. Carelessness may cost you your life."

- Safety saying, circa early 1900s

"The outcome of safety is the sum of decisions and actions of the individuals in a workplace."

"If you are the proprietor or managing director of a company, you are ultimately responsible for the health and safety in all aspects of the business."

"It costs less to be safe every day than to make one careless mistake along the way."

"Think! Do it the safe way; do it the right way; do it every day."

- Unknown

"Let’s manage safety recognizing how humans are and stop managing safety the way we wish humans were."

"Every accident is a notice that something is wrong with men, methods, or material. Investigate—then act."

"Every accident is a notice that something is wrong with men, methods, or material — investigate — then act."

- Unknown

"Safety doesn’t happen by accident."

"Luck runs out, but safety is good for life."

"Save lives, from the workplace to anyplace."

"Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy."

"Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent."

"Safety first, progress must. Every day is a safety day; safety has no holiday. Life is rare; live with care."

"Check yourself before you wreck yourself."

"Accidents hurt, safety doesn’t."

"Shortcuts cut life short."

- Unknown

"What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger; Except for workplace hazards, if they don’t kill you, they can leave you with a life long disability."

"Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it."

- Unknown

"Don’t turn your back on safety, if it’s unsafe, report it!"

"Safety does not come with luck. It has to be prepared."

"A great safety culture: when people continue to work safely, and do the right thing, even when no one is watching."

"Work safely today. Remember, somebody expects you home tonight."

- Unknown

"When safety is first, you last."

- Unknown