Safety
Safety is the state of being "safe" (from French sauf), the condition of being protected against physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consequences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any other event which could be considered non-desirable. Safety can also be defined to be the control of recognized hazards to achieve an acceptable level of risk. This can take the form of being protected from the event or from exposure to something that causes health or economical losses. It can include protection of people or of possessions.
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Some articles on safety:
... The Department of Public Safety provides law enforcement services for the Allendale Campus ... The Department of Public Safety also employs several students who assist the department by performing a variety of clerical and security based duties and services ... entity distinct from the Department of Public safety, and handles security and public safety issues for the Grand Rapids Pew Campus and all Regional Centers including the Holland (MI ...
... the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) New Car Assessment Program crash testing, the 2010 Dodge Grand Caravan achieved a five star (top ...
... The Vaccine Safety Datalink Project (VSD) was established in 1990 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to study the ... Data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink Project have been utilized to address a number of vaccine safety concerns examples include a study clarifying the risk of anaphylaxis after vaccine ...
... In 2012 Mansfield celebrated the 75th anniversary of Safety Town, a free program developed in Mansfield for pre-kindergarten children about pedestrian safety ... Over the years the program, through the efforts of the National Safety Town Center, has been improved to include all aspects of child safety ...
More definitions of "safety":
- (noun): A score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line.
- (noun): A device designed to prevent injury.
Synonyms: guard, safety device
- (noun): Contraceptive device consisting of a thin rubber or latex sheath worn over the penis during intercourse.
Synonyms: condom, rubber, safe, prophylactic
- (noun): The state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions.
Example: "Insure the safety of the children"; "the reciprocal of safety is risk"
Famous quotes containing the word safety:
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.... Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.”
—Joseph Heller (b. 1923)
“The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)