Safety Quotes

One earnest worker can do more by personal suggestion to prevent accidents than a carload of safety signs. - Making Paper, January 1923, edited by E.R. Brown


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


Practice "Safety First" to-day: It may be too late to-morrow. - Safety saying, circa early 1900s


Do not depend on others for safety — Help yourself. - Safety saying, circa early 1900s


Every accident is a notice that something is wrong with men, methods, or material — investigate — then act. - Safety saying, circa early 1900s


Safety brings first aid to the uninjured. - F.S. Hughes, c.1912


Your body is a big part of your capital: don't invest it in the "Bank of Careless Habits." - State Safety News, September 1916, published by the University of Arizona Bureau of Mines


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, Golden, Colorado, August 1918


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


Put your soul into your work, not your hand or foot. - State Safety News, September 1916, published by the University of Arizona Bureau of Mines


Accidents are some one's fault. Don't let them be yours. - Gary Works Circle by Illinois Steel Company, 1916 [Alternate: "Accidents are someone's fault. Be careful and they'll not be yours!" Also early 1900s. —tεᖇᖇ¡·g]


The motive power of the safety-first movement is a realization of the fact that lives and limbs need not be sacrificed to any desired result... - The Anode by the Bureau of Safety of the Anaconda Copper Mining Co., March 1917


Cultivate a habit of caution. - Safety saying, circa early 1900s


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


It is as much your duty to be careful and comply with safety rules as it is to properly perform your work. - Safety saying, circa early 1900s


Don't kid about Safety; you may be the goat. - Gary Works Circle by Illinois Steel Company, 1916


When you say "accident" perhaps you mean "crime." - Colorado School of Mines Magazine, Golden, Colorado, August 1918


[O]ut of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. - William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I




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


Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Author unknown


"Safety First" is "Safety Always." - Charles M. Hayes


Better a thousand times careful than once dead. - Proverb


Precaution is better than cure. - Edward Coke


As soon as you see a mistake and don't fix it, it becomes your mistake. - Author unknown


Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Author unknown


Who can hope to be safe? who sufficiently cautious?
Guard himself as he may, every moment's an ambush.
- Horace


Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen — they are caused. - Ernest Greenwood


Prepare and prevent, don't repair and repent. - Author unknown


Chance takers are accident makers. - Author unknown


Hug your kids at home, but belt them in the car. - Author unknown


It's better to crash into a nap than to nap into a crash. - Author unknown


Luck runs out but safety is good for life. - Author unknown


There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. - James Thurber


Accidents hurt — safety doesn't. - Author unknown


Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it. - Author unknown


The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense. - Author unknown


Working without safety is a dead-end job. - Author unknown


Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury. - Author unknown


We now have unshakable conviction that accident causes are man-made and that a man-made problem can be solved by men and women. - W.H. Cameron


Carelessness doesn't bounce; it shatters. - Terri Guillemets


Safety never takes a holiday. - Author unknown


Danger never takes a vacation. - Author unknown


When you gamble with safety, you bet your life. - Author unknown


If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline. - Paul Laforest


Is better to lose one minute in life than to lose life in a minute. - Author unknown


While on a ladder, never step back to admire your work. - Author unknown


Hearing protection is a sound investment. - Author unknown


To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one. - Author unknown


Safety glasses: making foresight 20/20. - Author unknown


Your safety gears are between your ears. - Author unknown


Broken tools can be replaced. You can't. - Author unknown


Personal protective equipment is self-defense. - Author unknown


Tomorrow: your reward for working safely today. - Attributed to Robert Pelton


Unsafe acts will keep you in stitches. - Author unknown


Don't learn safety by accident. - Author unknown


If you mess up, 'fess up. - Author unknown


Road sense is the offspring of courtesy and the parent of safety. - Australian traffic rule, quoted in Quotations for Special Occasions by Maud van Buren, 1938


Safety isn't expensive, its priceless. - Author unknown


Be alert! Accidents hurt. - Author unknown


Alert today, alive tomorrow. - Author unknown


Better dead sure than sure dead. - Author unknown


If you don't think it's safe, it probably isn't. - Author unknown


When safety is a factor, call in a contractor. - Author unknown


Wishing won't keep you safe — safety will. - Author unknown


Working safely is like breathing — if you don't, you die. - Author unknown


The safest risk is the one you didn't take. - Author unknown


Safety isn't just a slogan, it's a way of life. - Author unknown