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Safety

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

Safety is the need to ensure that the people involved with the company, including employees, customers, and visitors, are protected from harm.

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Notes on Measurement

freedom from risk which is not tolerable

ISO/IEC TS 5723:2022(en) Trustworthiness — Vocabulary

property of a system such that it does not, under defined conditions, lead to a state in which human life, health, property, or the environment is endangered; [safety involves reducing both the probability of expected harms and the possibility of unexpected harms].

Wordset Dictionary

(baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely

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a score in American football

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contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse

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a device designed to prevent injury or accidents

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a safe place

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the state of being certain that adverse effects will not be caused by some agent under defined conditions

Classifications

Entity Type

Requirement0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

50%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

synonym
base hitcondomfield goalguardprophylacticrefugerubbersafesafety devicetouchdown
plural
Safeties
possessive
Safety's
pluralpossessive
Safeties'