Libba Bray Quotes

Every job carries occupational hazards.

There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.

I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant - that plant kills people.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a few.

Injuries are part of the job.

I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes, like the old boys' network. And sometimes discrimination against women becomes discrimination against men: in hazardous fields, women suffer fewer hazards.

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

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

No pound of coal is worth getting hurt over.

I'm not necessarily in a vocation where I'm at risk; it's not like I'm a police officer. I'm a musician, so when I leave home, my family expects me to come back.

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.

To be sure, police do a dangerous job and take tremendous personal risks to safeguard the public. Most officers just want to do their jobs and go home alive.

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

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.

Non-criminal sexual harassment on the job is not a problem for the virtuous woman except in the rarest of cases.

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

If any job should give you a company car, it's the car bomb business.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

Any job that posts a price list for your body parts is a bad job.

Every day, almost as many men are killed at work as were killed during the average day in Vietnam. For men, there are, in essence, three male-only drafts: the draft of men to all the wars; the draft of Everyman to unpaid bodyguard; the draft of men to all the hazardous jobs or 'death professions.