Quotes can be a good way to keep employees focused. Using them in memos, displaying them on bulletin boards, and/or featuring them in employee newsletters on a regular basis can help plant the seed of awareness in each employee’s heart and mind. Given that today’s workplace experience unprecedented situation due to COVID-19 outbreak, using workplace safety quotes could help encourage employees to be more mindful with their health at work.
As a manager, you should know the key to using safety quotes effectively, which is to find ones that help you get your point across in a way that will be particularly meaningful to your employees. For example, you can create a safety quote that sounds like a meme for young employees who love memes. But always remember that effective quotes are those that are easy to remember. Here are some of the examples you might consider:
“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
“Carefulness costs you nothing. Carelessness may cost you your life.” – Safety saying, early 1900’s
“For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” – Eleanor Everet
“Prepare and prevent, don’t repair and repent.” – Unknown
“Working safely may get old, but so do those who practice it.” – Unknown
“Safety does not happen by accident.” – Unknown
“Worker injuries and illness can affect every aspect of life for workers and their families.” – Maine Department of Labor
“You are your last line of defense in safety. It boils down to you.” – Kina Repp
“ It takes leadership to improve safety.” – Jackie Stewart
“Safety isn’t expensive, it’s priceless.” – Unknown
“Your employees learn by example. If they don’t see you practicing good safety habits, they won’t think safety is important.” – Electrical Construction & Maintenance
“Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.” – Aeschylus
“Better a thousand times careful than once dead.” – Proverb
“At the end of the day, the goals are simple: safety and security.” – Jodi Rell
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