Safety slogans based on absolutes and intolerance No injuries to anyone, ever The goal must be zero accidents Zero compromise on safety Zero in on safety Zero in on zero accidents Zero tolerance on safety Be a safety hero, score an accident zero Safety slogans uncategorised Accidents big or small, avoid them all At Work, At Home, Let Safety Be Known At work, at play, let safety lead the way Best be safety today Don’t lose your head to gain a minute, you need your head, your brains are in it Don’t put your life on the line Failing to plan for safety is planning to fail Leave horseplay to horses Life does not begin by accident, don’t end it as one Macho does not prove mucho. Do it safely Make safety a priority New Year Resolution; if its unsafe, I will find a solution Safety is like breathing, you never want to stop Safety is our goal, what’s yours? Safety pays every day To be or not to be, safety is no question You will regret if you forget safety Look after number one, if you need help, just ask Safety quotes in literature ‘Tears are the safety valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on it.’ -Albert Smith ‘Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.’ -Jeff Cooper ‘Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ‘safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.’ -Douglas Adams, British comic writer, 1952 -2001 ‘When you’re safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you’re having an adventure you wish you were safe at home,’ -Thornton Wilder, American writer of innovative plays and novels, 1897 -1975 ‘The way to be safe is never to feel secure… Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety. ‘ -Henry H Tweedy ‘Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!’ -Edna St Vincent Millay, American poet and dramatist, 1892 -1950 ‘He that’s secure is not safe.’ -Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventor, 1706 -1790 ‘The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.’ -James Madison, American president and founding father 1751 -1836 ‘The American people must be willing to give up a degree of personal privacy in exchange for safety and security.’ -Louis Freeh ‘Security is the chief enemy of mortals.’ -William Shakespeare, English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564 -1616 ‘Not a gift of a cow, nor a gift of land, nor yet a gift of food, is so important as the gift of safety, which is declared to be the great gift among all gifts in this world.’ -Mary Shafer ‘Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.’ -Mary Shafer ‘I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world.’ -William Shakespeare ‘Blame is safer than praise.’ -Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and lecturer, 1803 -1882 ‘The trodden path is safest.’ -Legal maxim ‘There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.’ – James Thurber, American writer, 1894 -1961 ‘We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.’ – Mark Twain, American humourist and lecturer, 1835 -1910 ‘We will never have real safety and security for wage earners, unless we provide for safety and security for wage payers and wage savers.’ -William JH Boetcker ‘Culture is everything you don’t have to do.’ –British music innovator Brian Eno, cited by corporate culture consultant Steve Banhegyi Ambiguous attitudes to safety slogans While everyone agrees on the need to set risk tolerance levels ‘high’, and to advocate healthy and safe behaviour, employers and workers alike hold a range of views of slogans. Highly diverse attitudes to health and safety slogans could exist in the same organisation, and even in the same individual. Two quotes from the same author sum up this ambiguous attitude, revealing that slogans are subject to other priorities and changeable attitudes, seldom representing immutable values; ‘Not a gift of a cow, nor a gift of land, nor yet a gift of food, is so important as the gift of safety, which is declared to be the great gift among all gifts in this world.’ -Mary Shafer. Elsewhere the same author writes; ‘Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don’t have the balls to live in the real world.’ Source: http://sheqafrica.com/motto-slogan-list/
