safety (redirected from safety specifications)

safety

Activities that seek to minimize or to eliminate hazardous conditions that can cause bodily injury. Occupational safety is concerned with risks in areas where people work: offices, manufacturing plants, farms, construction sites, and commercial and retail facilities. Public safety is concerned with hazards in the home, in travel and recreation, and in other situations that do not fall within the scope of occupational safety.

---

safety

See machine safety, intrinsic safety, safety integrity level, safety instrumented system and safety network.

---

safety

American football

a. either of two players who defend the area furthest back in the field

b. a play in which the offensive team causes the ball to cross its own goal line and then grounds the ball behind that line, scoring two points for the opposing team

---

safety [′sāf·tē]

(engineering)

Methods and techniques of avoiding accident or disease.

(ordnance)

A locking or cut-off device that prevents a weapon or missile from being fired accidentally.

---

elevator car safety, counterweight safety

A mechanical device attached to an elevator car frame or to the frame of the counterweight; slows down, stops, and holds the car or counterweight in the event of excessive speed or free fall of the car, or if the wire ropes slacken, break, or pull out of their fastenings.

---

safety - See safe, safety-critical system.