100 Safety Quotes to Keep You Safe at Workplace, Home and on Roads

A safe and healthy workplace not only protects workers from injury and illness, it can also lower injury/illness costs, reduce absenteeism and turnover, increase productivity and quality, and raise employee morale. In other words, safety is good for business and startups. Safety quotes and safety slogans are a great way to increase safety awareness and communicate key safety concepts clearly and ensure your team is always on the lookout for potential safety issues at the same time. Here are best safety quotes to keep you and your team safe at workplace, home and on roads.

Safety Quotes

1. “Safety is not a gadget, but a state of mind.” ~ Eleanor Everet

2. “Working safely is like breathing – if you don’t, you die.” ~ Jerry Smith

3. “Tomorrow: your reward for working safely today.” ~ Robert Pelton

4. “Safety brings first aid to the uninjured.” ~ F.S. Hughes

5. “Luck runs out, but safety is good for life.” ~ Safety Slogan

6. “Precaution is better than cure.” ~ Edward Coke
7. “The real enemy of safety is not non-compliance but non-thinking.” ~ Dr. Rob Long
8. “Government’s first duty and highest obligation is public safety.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
9. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
10. “Let’s manage safety recognizing how humans are and stop managing safety the way we wish humans were.” ~ Alan Quilley

Safety Quotes for Work

11. “What matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you’ve got a unionized workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game if your safety reps are taught to examine situations to make sure the workplace is safer. Better informed delegates better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.” ~ Bill Shorten
12. “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 life or die.” ~ Sir Brian Appleton
13. “Respect the unexpected. Think through the risks.” ~ Anonymous
14. “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
15. “Safety work is today recognized as an economic necessity. It is the study of the right way to do things.” ~ Robert W. Campbell
16. “Work injuries and illnesses can affect every aspect of life for workers and their families.” ~ Maine Department of Labor
17. “Don’t be hasty when it comes to safety.” ~ Anonymous
18. “If you want to work out what a safety displacement activity is, take it out of the equation and see if it makes any difference. If there’s no difference, then whatever that activity is, it’s probably a waste of time. ” ~ George Robotham
19. “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
20. “Broken tools can be replaced, you can’t.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes about Safety

21. “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
22. “Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.” ~ Jeff Cooper
23. “It takes leadership to improve safety.” ~ Jackie Stewart
24. “Check yourself before you wreck yourself.” ~ Meg Cabot
25. ”An incident is just the tip of the iceberg, a sign of a much larger problem below the surface.” ~ Don Brown
26. “Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.”~ Aeschylus
27. “There’s no better policy in society than pursuing the health and safety of its people.”~ Ralph Nader
28. “You are your last line of defense in safety. It all boils down to you”. ~ Kina Repp
29. “A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt.” ~ George Carlin
30. “Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless.”~ Anonymous

Safety Quote

31. “Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.” ~ Elon Musk
32. “I’m not a daredevil. I don’t fly without a safety net.” ~ Steve Wynn
33. “Teaching the world to be careful is a constructive service worthy of God’s great gift of life to man.” ~ Justice Harold H. Burton
34. “The economic waste resulting from carelessness is appalling, but anyone who stops for a moment to consider 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
35. “Safety First is Safety Always.” ~ Charles M. Hayes
36. “The best safety lies in fear.” ~ William Shakespeare
37. “The speedway ends at the cemetery.” ~ Anonymous
38. “To develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight.” ~ Jane McGonigal
39. “Safety applies with equal force to the individual, to the family, to the employer, to the state, the nation, and international affairs. Safety, in its widest sense, concerns the happiness, contentment, and freedom of mankind.” ~ William M. Jeffers
40. “When you gamble with safety, you bet with your life.” ~ Anonymous

Quotes about Safe Driving

41. “For every “Drive Safely” sign, shouldn’t there be a “Resume Normal Driving” sign?” ~ Robert Breault
42. “The driver on the highway is safe not when he reads the signs, but when He obeys them.” ~ Aiden Tozer
43. “A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.” ~ Anonymous
44. “If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.” ~ Dean Martin
45. “Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.” ~ Mac McCleary
46. “Leave sooner, drive slower, live longer.”~ Anonymous
47. “The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.” ~ Mario Andretti
48. “To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.” ~ Chinese Proverb
49. “It’s like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” ~ E. L. Doctorow
50. “The best car safety device is a rearview mirror with a cop in it.” ~ Dudley Moore

Workplace Safety Quotes

51. “Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.” ~ Anonymous
52. “Paper doesn’t save people, people save people.” ~ Dan Peterson
53. “My job provides the paycheck but safety takes me home.” ~ Anonymous
54. “The safety of the people shall be the highest law.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
55. “Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give.” ~ Dr. Robert Long
56. “Safety is 30% Common Sense, 80% Compliance, and the rest is good luck.” ~ Barry Spud
57. “Don’t do something detrimental to yourself. In hurting yourself, you obviously do damage to you, but you are part of the team, so when you damage yourself via a poor choice, you are hurting the team as well.” ~ Matt Forck
58. “At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” ~ Jodi Rell
59. “There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.” ~ James Thurber
60. “Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.” ~ Jeff Cooper

Safety Quotes

61. “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
62. “Nothing is of greater importance that the conservation of human life.” ~ Calvin Coolidge
63. “Shallow men believe in luck; wise and strong men in the cause and effect.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
64. “Better a thousand times careful than once dead.” ~ Proverb
65. “Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” ~ George Carlin
66. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
67. “Understand, our police officers put their lives on the line for us every single day. They’ve got a tough job to do to maintain public safety and hold accountable those who break the law.” ~ Barack Obama
68. “True public safety requires a collaboration between law enforcement and the community.” ~ Betsy Hodges
69. “Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will, after a time, give way to its dictates.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
70. “Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Quotes on Safety

71. “Bad news travels at the speed of light; good news travels like molasses.” ~ Tracy Morga
72. “A good safety culture is built over time. It is never given” ~ Anonymous
73. “The danger which is least expected soonest comes to us.” ~ Voltaire
74. “The person traveling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.” ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
75. “Caution is the parent of safety.”~ Anonymous
76. “We must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ~ John F. Kennedy, Former U.S. President
77. “If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.” ~ Anonymous
78. “One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.” ~ Publilius Syrus
79. “A chain is only as long as the weakest link.” ~ Anonymous
80. “A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences” ~ Proverb

Safety Slogans

81. Know safety, No Accidents
82. Safety is free — use it generously
83. If you are aware of it, take care of it
84. Make safety a reality, don’t be a fatality
85. A harness is better than a hearse
86. Normal speed meets every need
87. Hearing protection is a sound investment
88. Lifting’s a breeze when you bend at the knees
89. Organ donor = A person who doesn’t use his or her safety equipment
90. Hand in, hamburger out

Safety Slogans for Workplace

91. Is better to lose one minute in life… than to lose life in a minute
92. Keep safety in mind. It will save your behind
93. Chance takers are accident makers
94. Safety rules are your best tools
95. Think smart before you start
96. To avoid a scene keep your work place clean
97. Safety first, last, and always
98. Be alert, accidents hurt
99. Safety is not for this time, it’s for Every Time
100. Safety first safety must

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