What is Safety

There are many interpretations of the word “safety” that depend on the context of where it is actually used. The most common interpretation is

“The condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss”.

The way to define Safety:

• Safety is the condition of avoiding causing or feeling hurt, injury or loss. An example of such a meaning would be “I feel safe around him”, meaning that a person feels like she is avoiding feeling hurt or getting injured when another person is being present, who provides that feeling of protection.

• “Safety” can be used to name an object whose whole purpose is to prevent or discourage operation of a dangerous weapon or machine without explicit intent to do so. An example usage is “He disabled the safety on the pistol before he shot 5 rounds at the target”.

• Safety is a situation in football in which a member of the offensive team is tackled behind its own goal line that counts two points for the defensive team.

• “Safety” can reffer to a situation in football that is similar to “own goal” in other team sports. It happens when an opponent in possesion of the ball is tackeled in his own end zone. For example, “A safety is usually a team’s last line of defense in football”