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Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time

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Researchers Reveal the Top 10 Most Effective Safety Slogans Of All Time Using a new iphone app, a team of social psychology experts has analysed every meaningless aphorism and every condescending platitude ever displayed in the workplace to come up with a list of the most effective safety slogans of all time. Research project leader, […]

How to write your own safety slogans

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Safety Slogans:  How to Write Your Own Safety Slogans 500 OF THE BEST WORKPLACE HEALTH and SAFETY SLOGANS 167 CATCHY and FUNNY SAFETY SLOGANS FOR THE WORKPLACE Safety slogans have been proven to increase safety in the workplace.  In a quick glance, an employee can read a slogan, and a simple slogan is really easy […]

The Risk of Getting Newspaper Headlines Wrong

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The Risk of Getting Newspaper Headlines Wrong It must be a lot more fun writing Newspaper Headlines than Safety Slogans in order to get people’s attention to an important issue – and just as easy to get very wrong? Thanks to Sheri Suckling for pointing these out – a great way to start the week. […]

Safety as Faith Healing

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Just yesterday I was told, again, that if If don’t believe in zero harm then I must want people to get hurt and therefore have no right to be in safety! Our recent article on the problems with “fire and brimstone safety” stirred up some debate about the ineffectiveness of negative safety stories and goals. […]

Safety Aphorisms and Platitudes

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Safety Aphorisms and Platitudes Someone recently posted a photo of an old safety sign from NC Transport Museum on LinkedIn. Its a great find of an interesting artefact. I am not sure how old it is and it was probably considered to be amazingly insightful in its day. We often laugh at these very early […]

Safety Slogans Don’t Save Lives

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Unfortunately one of the most popular pages on this blog is our Safety Slogans Page (last week, during Indian Safety Week, it was getting 40k hits per day!).  Rob Long wrote of the futility and danger in using safety slogans here: Sayings, slogans, aphorisms and the discourse of simple. Hopefully we can introduce the safety […]

Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple

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‘Tis the season to be decorating the workplace with safety slogans so I thought I should republish this classic: Sayings, Slogans, Aphorisms and the Discourse of Simple One of the most annoying things about social media, especially Linkedin (as its intention is to be professional), is the constant flooding of the airwaves with the quest […]

Zero Plus Infinity Times 10 = ?

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Zero Plus Infinity Times 10 = ? Following Dr Rob Long’s recent article Semiotics and Safety about the mindless gobbledygook that is terms like “Beyond Zero” and “Target Zero”, and the negative subconscious meanings they prime, a very despondent safety person sent us this photo. Is it any wonder many are saying – I‘m Just […]

Safety Slogan Resources

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safety slogans 2013 Safety Slogans 2013 Safety Slogans Seems like a few companies like to kick safety off each year with fresh new safety slogans or even boost awareness by running a safety slogan competition based around the new year. Here are a few we have been sent already. Thanks to Bev and Joe: Don’t […]