- "Safety is an abstraction – one cannot see it, taste it, feel it. Like electricity, it is difficult to define and often the best one can do is express its characteristics with regard to other things or perhaps describe what happens without it"
- "An accident is an unplanned but controllable combination of events which causes injury or harm to someone or something"
- "Accidents are rare events; hazards are not"
- "A safety-oriented description of accident causation will necessarily involve multiple events".
- "A total systems orientation to accident causation/prevention is essential to assure consideration of all factors"
- "Safety is an integral part of mission accomplishment and not an end in itself"
- "There are identifiable safety tasks within management’s division of work that have demonstrable accident prevention effectiveness"
- "Accident/incident investigation is part of accident prevention, but accident prevention includes far more than investigation"
- "Known precedent is the fundamental ingredient in any accident prevention program"
- "The human operator is a highly adaptive safety device".
- "Rule enforcement and punishment are among the least effective accident prevention measures"
- "Management accountability for safety cannot be denied relative to accident prevention"
You may be surprised that these were authored nearly 5 decades ago! See "S?????? ???????????????????? ???? ???????????????? ???????????????? ????????????????????” ???? ??.??. ????????????, ?????????????? ???? ???????????? ???????????? (???????????? ????????????????????), ??????12 ????3 (1976)
