“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”
– George Santayana
“The first duty of business is to survive, and the guiding principle of business economics is not maximizing profit, it is the avoidance of loss”
– Peter Drucker)
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
– Benjamin Franklin, statesman and political philosopher
“If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.”
– Stephen Covey
“Safety is not an intellectual exercise to keep us in work. It is a matter of life and death. It is the sum of our contributions to safety management that determines whether the people we work with live or die.”
– Sir Brian Appleton, Technical Adviser to the Enquiry on Piper Alpha Accident
“Paper doesn’t save people, people save people”
– Dan Petersen, Safety Professional
“An incident is just the tip of the iceberg, a sign of a much larger problem below the surface.”
– Don Brown
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman statesman
“The danger which is least expected soonest comes to us.”
— Voltaire, 18th-century French author
“There’s no harm in hoping for the best as long as you’ve prepared for the worst.”
— Stephen King, author
“The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness.”
— Barry Eisler, author
“Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.”
— Jeff Cooper, military and police instructor
“[Responding to a] crisis situation is a team sport. You gotta get in there and work your options together.”
— Jeff Hahn, author
My company has had a safety program for 150 years. The program was instituted as a result of a French law requiring an explosives manufacturer to live on the premises with his family.
Crawford Greenwalt (former president of Dupont)
‘‘To avoid paralysis resulting from waiting for definitive data, we assume we have greater knowledge than scientists actually possess and make decisions based on those assumptions.’’
William Ruckleshaus
Risk assessment data can be like the captured spy; if you torture it long enough, it will tell you anything you want to know.
William Ruckelshaus - Risk in a Free Society
Underlying every technology is at least one basic science, although the technology may be well developed long before the science emerges. Overlying every technical or civil system is a social system that provides purpose, goals, and decision criteria.
Ralph Miles Jr.
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"Most accidents are not the result of unknown scientific principles, but rather of a failure to apply well−known, standard engineering practices."
"Accidents, with a few exceptions, are not caused by lack of knowledge, but by a failure to use the knowledge that is available."
“There’s an old saying that if you think safety is expensive, try an accident. Accidents cost a lot of money. And, not only in damage to plant and in claims for injury, but also in the loss of the company’s reputation.”
“For a long time, people were saying that most accidents were due to human error and this is true in a sense but it’s not very helpful. It’s a bit like saying that falls are due to gravity.” – Dr Trevor Kletz
“Organizations have no memory.”
“What you don’t have, can’t leak.”
“Try to change situations, not people…”
"It might seem to an outsider that industrial accidents occur because we do not know how to prevent them. In fact they occur because we do not use the knowledge that is available. Organisations do not learn from the past or, rather, individuals learn but they leave the organisation, taking their knowledge with them, and the organisation as a whole forgets." [Book Lessons from Disasters. How organisations have no memory and accidents recur]
– Dr Trevor Kletz (British author on the topic of chemical engineering safety. Central figure in establishing the discipline of process safety)
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