The Source
The Book Behind the Film
Think and Work Safe: The Movie stands on a book — Douglas Tatlow's Think and Work Safe, fourteen lessons of personal development aimed at the one promise every working person makes: to come home.
The Book
Safety Is a Personal Development Problem
Think and Work Safe is not a safety manual. It is a personal-development book written for the people safety rules are written about — the workers on the steel, in the trucks, at the gates — and for the supervisors responsible for sending them home.
The book's argument is simple and quietly radical: safe work is not compliance, it is character. The same disciplines that build a career — desire, faith, planning, decision, persistence — are the disciplines that guard a life. Tatlow spent a career in heavy industry before writing it down, and the book carries that experience the way a veteran talks across the lunch table: plainly, without slogans, with respect for the listener.
Every chapter became a movement in the film. Read the book and you will recognise the story; watch the film and you will want the book.
50+
Years in industry behind the message
14
Lessons, one per chapter
1
Promise — everyone goes home
“Their next few moments may depend on the answer they receive.”
Inside the Book
The Fourteen Lessons
Each chapter takes one idea from personal development and lands it where it matters most — on the decisions a working day demands.
I
Desire
II
Faith
III
Autosuggestion
IV
Specialized Knowledge
V
Imagination
VI
Organized Planning
VII
Decision
VIII
Persistence
IX
The Power of the Mastermind
X
Transformational Leadership
XI
The Subconscious Mind
XII
The Brain
XIII
The Sixth Sense
XIV
How to Outwit Fear
The Author
Douglas Tatlow
Douglas Tatlow writes from a working life in heavy industry — the kind of career where safety is not a slide deck but the reason a family stays whole. Think and Work Safe gathers what those years taught him into fourteen lessons, and gives each one the dignity of a chapter.
His voice is the book's strength: never a lecture, always a conversation between people who understand the stakes. It is that voice the film set out to keep.
From the Page to the Screen
See how fourteen lessons became one working day in the film's storyline — or bring the story straight to your crews.