Quotes

No matter what the rules say, don't do anything stupid.

Glenn Fowler
Former Vice-President, Sandia

It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet (attributed)

There are no new accidents. Rather there are old accidents repeated by new people.

Dame Judith Hackitt
Former Chair, Health and Safety Executive

Complexity is the enemy of safety.

Sir Charles Haddon-Cave, QC
Chair, Nimrod Review

Organisations have no memory.

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.

Trevor Kletz OBE
Process safety specialist