safety
Let an agent explain safety as a condition and a practice, relay principles of risk management and major safety domains from standards and regulatory sources, describe safety culture, and distinguish safety from security and from specific regulated domains.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain safety as a condition and a practice, relay principles of risk management and major safety domains from standards and regulatory sources, describe safety culture, and distinguish safety from security and from specific regulated domains.
The condition of being protected from harm, injury, loss or danger, and the practices, systems and disciplines that achieve it, spanning occupational and industrial safety, food safety including infant food safety and meat inspection, product, road, fire and patient safety, and emerging fields such as AI safety concerned with reliable and beneficial artificial intelligence; safety is managed through hazard identification, risk assessment, standards, regulation and safety culture, and is distinguished from security, which addresses intentional threats.
What it is for: Protecting people, property and systems from harm.
It can be explain the concept; relay risk management principles; describe domains; distinguish from security.
Distinguishing features
Harm prevention
Risk-based management
Standards and regulation
Many domains
What it looks like
Not a visible object; signs, equipment, procedures and systems.
Physical character
global occupational deaths: about 2.9 million - per year, ILO estimates
foodborne illness cases: about 600 million - per year, WHO
How it is recognised
Freedom from harm and the practices ensuring it
Occupational, industrial, food, product, road, fire, patient and AI safety
Security concerns intentional threats; reliability concerns functioning; health concerns wellbeing broadly
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is a kind of - in registry terms
is achieved through - and standards
is contrasted with - which addresses intentional threats
In practice
Families and kinds
occupational and industrial safety
food safety including infant food safety and meat inspection, by country such as Australia
product and consumer safety
road, rail, aviation and maritime safety
fire safety
patient safety
process and nuclear safety
AI safety
Standards and regulation
ISO 45001 occupational health and safety
Codex Alimentarius and national food safety laws
ISO 31000 risk management
Sector regulators for products, transport, fire and health care
Emerging AI safety frameworks and regulations
Failure modes and hazards
Normalisation of deviance and weak safety culture
Compliance without effectiveness
Presenting contested AI safety debates as settled
Confusing safety with security
Also called
+11
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.safety-location
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What safety is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is safety, and how does it differ from security, reliability and health? definition
- Is the question about safety in general, a specific domain such as food or AI safety, or a specific hazard? boundary
Domains
Domains.
Domains
Domains.
- What are the main safety domains, from occupational and food safety to patient and AI safety? definition
- Which entry fits the specific domain? action
Manage Managing safety.
Practice.
Risk
Risk management.
Risk
Risk.
- How are hazards identified, risks assessed and controls chosen using the hierarchy of controls? action
- Which references are standard? provenance
Culture
Safety culture.
Culture
Culture.
- What is safety culture, and what do investigations of major accidents teach, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits safety culture? action
Regulate Standards and regulation.
Regulation.
Standards
Standards.
Standards
Standards.
- What standards such as ISO 45001, ISO 31000 and Codex govern safety? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Regulators
Regulators.
Regulators
Regulators.
- Which regulators oversee safety in different sectors and countries, such as food safety in Australia? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific regulator? action
Context Emerging and history.
Attribution.
AI
AI safety.
AI
AI.
- What is AI safety, and what do researchers and policymakers debate, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
History
History.
History
History.
- How did safety regulation develop from factory acts to modern systems approaches? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of occupational safety? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should occupational safety, food safety and AI safety be separate primary entries?
- How should standards be linked by domain?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming domains and a national programme; should they be split off?