Ryan Holiday Quotes

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

Really, being a librarian is a much more dangerous job than you realize.

There's always more employers can do to protect their employees.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Latinos are disproportionately more likely to be injured on the job than other ethnic groups.

Hollywood is a far safer place to work than working abroad, because of the skill level, and because of the safety considerations that experience and unionization have created.

I can always go back to construction. That's great money, but the problem is you can cut off your hand.

In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

I would not wish to imply that most industrial accidents are due to intemperance. But, certainly, temperance has never failed to reduce their number.

In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and comes home bruised and dirty and often proud of the work that they're doing.

We cannot play with the lives of our own staff beyond a certain limit. Our people in the field are increasingly desperate.

Whether we, as individuals, are motivated by simple humanity or by simple economics, we can no longer permit profits to be dependent upon an unsafe or unhealthy work site.

There is a dire need to create awareness regarding proper and safe use of laboratory equipment among lab workers and assistants, since it not only affects the worker but the people attached to them.

OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.

The union movement has achieved a huge amount in the past century or so. It has secured important rights at work, tackled unfair discrimination and ensured that Britain is one of the safest places in the world in which to go to work.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Injuries are part of the job.

Nobody ever wants to see a guy get hurt, because this is how we feed our families.

You can be an astronaut, knowing it can be super dangerous but understand intuitively what the risk issues are. Not having the same usable knowledge about the risk of football, or any line of work, doesn't work.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

Never wear your necktie while you're operating a lathe.