Jerome F. Lederer famous quotes

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Safety #Risk #Hazards

Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Organization #Safety #Matter

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Errors #Aerospace #Safety

Of the major incentives to improve safety, by far the most compelling is that of economics. The moral incentive, which is most evident following an accident, is more intense but is relatively short lived.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Safety #Incentives #Moral

In less than 70 hours, three astronauts will be launched on the flight of Apollo 8 from the Cape Kennedy Space Center on a research journey to circle the moon. This will involve known risks of great magnitude and probable risks which have not been foreseen. Apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. With 99.9 percent reliability, we could expect 5,600 defects. Hence the striving for perfection and the use of redundancy which characterize the Apollo program.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Moon #Journey #Circles

Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.
-- Jerome F. Lederer

#Risk #Apollo #Information

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.

At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

If you work around at-risk teen students, actually tell them you love them and have faith in their success. No one tells them that. No one.

I don't see the risk, I enjoy performing stunts, and I don't get scared.

Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted in the rapid expansion of the real estate securitization business. This trend could be regarded as a risk factor, as it exposes the real estate sector to at least three potential problems: first, interest rate hikes; second, revisions to securitization business accounting standards; and third, overheating in the real estate market.

I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.