Good quotes are the kind that inspire us to do better. The safety industry is a tough gig. So we thought you might need some extra inspiration to turn to on a bad day. Quotes pick us up when we’re feeling unmotivated and can be a great tool to help keep your employees focussed on safety. Display them around your workplace, or add them to internal newsletters. Make an impact and get your point across. Without further ado, here are those nuggets of wisdom we’ve sought out.

1. Top 20 Safety Quotes To
Improve Your Safety Culture

2. One earnest worker can do more by
personal suggestion to prevent accidents
than a carload of safety signs.
-Making Paper

3. Safety saves sickness, suffering, sadness.
-Safety saying, circa early 1900s
-Safety saying, circa early 1900s

4. Every accident is a notice that something
is wrong with men, methods, or material -
investigate - then act.
-Unknown

5. Safety brings first aid to the uninjured.
-F.S. Hughes

6. You don’t need to know the whole alphabet
of safety. The a, b, c of it will save you if you
follow it: Always Be Careful.
-Colorado School of Mines Magazine

7. Do not think because an accident hasn’t
happened to you that it can’t happen.
-Safety saying circa early 1900s

8. Carefulness costs you nothing.
Carelessness may cost you your life.
-Safety saying circa early 1900s

9. For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.
-Eleanor Everet

10. An incident is just the tip of the iceberg, a sign
of a much larger problem below the surface.
-Don Brown

11. Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.
-Unknown

12. Measuring performance by the numbers of
injuries you have is liked measuring parenting
by the number of smacks you give.
-Dr. Robert Long

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

14. A chain is only as long as the weakest link.
-Unknown

15. Shortcuts cut life short.
-Unknown

16. You are your last line of defense in safety. It
boils down to you.
-Kina Repp

17. Luck runs out but safety is good for life.
-Unknown

18. Working safely may get old, but so do those
who practice it.
-Unknown

19. Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless.
-Unknown

20. It takes leadership to improve safety.
-Jackie Stewart

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