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Workplace Safety Defined
Safety is the condition of being protected against failure, damage, error, accidents, or harm.
It is the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions;
The reciprocal of safety is risk.
Safety guard: a device on machinery designed to prevent injury
A judgment of the acceptability of risk (a measure of the probability of an adverse outcome and its severity) associated with using a technology in a given situation, eg, for a patient with a particular health problem, by a clinician with certain training, or in a specified treatment setting.
The expectation that a system does not, under defined conditions lead to a state in which human life is endangered. Scope of safety can be expanded for specific program in the "System Safety Program Plan".
Freedom from those conditions which can cause injury or death to personnel, damage to or loss of equipment or property.
the provision and control of work environment systems and human behaviour which together give relative freedom from those conditions and circumstances which can cause personal injury, disease or death, or property damage.
Safety denotes a status, which is extensively free of adverse effects or is regarded as non-dangerous. [...] Security concepts are constructed and used to reach the status of safety. Measures of security are effective when they fend off expected and unexpected damnifications. [...] (wikipedia.de)
The quality or state of being safe; freedom from harm or danger.
Action taken to protect from injury or loss of life due to such conditions as fire, electrical hazard, unsafe building or site conditions, and the presence of hazardous materials.
Identifies and addresses potential hazards in the use of the procedure.
Safety describes a state in which the remaining risk is judged to be acceptable. There is still a possibility, even in a state of safety, that harm could occur. The concept of safety as an absence of hazard is of little practical use in most contexts, since risks exist even if an activity is avoided.
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