“Ford Motor Company's sluggish and piecemeal approach to its automotive responsibilities betrays motorists' safety.” ResponsibilityCompanyApproachSafetyBetrayalBetrayMotorSluggishFord Motor Author:Ralph Nader
“Women do not enter a profession in significant numbers until it is physically safe. So until we care enough about men's safety to turn the death professions into safe professions, we in effect discriminate against women. But when we overprotect women and only women it also leads to discrimination against women. ...If [an employer works] for a large company for which quotas prevent discrimination, they find themselves increasingly hiring free-lancers rather than taking on a woman and therefore a possible sexual harassment lawsuit.” IfsMenEnoughCareTurnsNumbersCompanyEffectsSafeSafetyProfessionSignificantDiscriminationEmployersHiringHarassmentLawsuitQuotaLarge CompaniesSignificant Numbers Author:Warren Farrell
“In a democracy it is ultimately for us, the citizens, to judge where to place the balance between security and privacy, safety and liberty. It's our lives and liberties that are threatened, not only by terrorism but also by massive depredations of our privacy in the name of counter-terrorism. If those companies from which governments actually take most of our intimate details want to show that they are still on the side of the angels, they had better join this struggle for transparency too.” IfsWantStillsShowsGovernmentNamesSidesCompanyLibertyStruggleDemocracyOur LivesSecurityJudgingBalanceCitizensAngelSafetyDetailsTerrorismIntimatePrivacyMassiveThreatenedTransparencyCounter Terrorism Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“The whole time I was a union leader, we had to put up with John Howard and Tony Abbott attacking workers' conditions. I'm proud of being a moderate trade union official, working co-operatively between employees and employers. I'm interested in better wages for workers, better safety, job security, and, profitable companies, because I understand that if you get co-operation in the workplace, everyone wins.” IfsWholeJobsWinningCompanyLeaderConditionsSecurityProudSafetyTradeUnionsWorkersOperationsOfficialsEmployeeWorkplaceWagesModeratesEmployersAttackingProfitableTrade UnionsEmployees And Employers Author:Bill Shorten
“What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.” IfsKnowsMatterHelpingAbleGamesCompanySituationTeachingTaughtSafetyUnionsVery GoodShopsResolveWorkplaceDisputesEmployersWorkforceDelegatesStewardsRules Of The GameWorkplace Safety Author:Bill Shorten
“Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, "This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives," the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, "Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life," that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision.” WantMadeSaidEndsRealityCareAsksFoundDecisionDealsExistenceCompanyCarCostResourcesDoctorsAskingSafetyTradeSavedMade ItFeaturesHeroicFiniteEnd Of LifeExplicitTrade OffsMemos Author:Bill Gates
“Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.” ResponsibilityCompanyRiskSafetySellsBrandsRecallsTaking Responsibility Author:Andy Kennedy
“To suppose that safety-first consists in having a small gamble in a large number of different companies where I have no information to reach a good judgment, as compared with a substantial stake in a company where one's information is adequate, strikes me as a travesty of investment policy.” FirstsDifferentNumbersCompanyInformationPolicyJudgmentSafetyInvestmentInvestingStrikesStakesAdequateGambleLarge NumbersDiversificationGood JudgmentTravestySafety First Author:John Maynard Keynes
“When you have a food safety system that's voluntary and not mandatory, you're in a situation in which everybody wants everybody else to go first. So as a normal course of doing business, food companies cut corners and don't want to take the kind of trouble and the kind of testing and the kind of careful procedures that are required to produce the safe food because they don't have to.” WantFirstsKindCoursesCompanySituationCuttingTroubleProduceSafeNormalSafetyCarefulCornersTestingProceduresFood SafetySafe Food Author:Marion Nestle
“We don't measure whether an economy is developing. We just measure whether companies are selling more, whether inventories are up or down, not whether the health, safety and economic well-being of people are being advanced.” PeopleWellsCompanyEconomyEconomicSafetySellingDevelopingWell BeingInventorySelling More Author:Ralph Nader