Safety Safety is the state of being "safe", the condition of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to risk management, the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings There are ...

is the condition of being protected against harmful conditions or events, or the control of hazards to reduce risk. Safety may also refer to:

Places

Safety Island Safety Island () is a small coastal island east of Cape Daly, Antarctica, south of Auster Islands, and northwest of Landmark Point. Mapped by Norwegian cartographers from aerial photographs taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition, 1936–37 ...

, Antarctica

Government

* The

Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act The Internet Safety Act and the Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act (acronymized SAFETY) were two United States bills introduced in 2009 requiring "a provider of an electronic communication service or remot ...

, also known as SAFETY, a United States bill introduced in 2009 *

SAFETY Act The Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act of 2002, or SAFETY Act, was enacted as Subtitle G of Title VIII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 (). The Act creates an exclusive federal cause of action A cause of action ...

, a provision of the Homeland Security Act in the United States

Music

* ''Safety'' (album), a 2002 album by Ty Tabor * ''Safety'' (EP), a 1998 EP by Coldplay

Sports

Safety (cue sports) The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: ''carom billiards'' referring to the various games played on a billiard table without ; '' pool'', which denotes a host of gam ...

, an intentional defensive shot *

Safety (gridiron football position) Safety is a position in gridiron football on the American football positions#Defense, defense. The safeties are defensive backs who line up ten to fifteen yards from the line of scrimmage. There are two variations of the position: the free safet ...

, a type of defensive back *

Safety (gridiron football score) In gridiron football, the safety (American football) or safety touch (Canadian football) is a scoring play that results in two points being awarded to the scoring team. Safeties can be scored in a number of ways, such as when a ball carrier is ...

, a type of scoring play *

Safety bicycle A safety bicycle (or simply a safety) is a type of bicycle that became very popular beginning in the late 1880s as an alternative to the penny-farthing ("ordinary") and is now the most common type of bicycle. Early bicycles of this style were kno ...

, an alternative to the penny-farthing

Computing

Safety (distributed computing) Properties of an execution of a computer program —particularly for concurrent and distributed systems— have long been formulated by giving ''safety properties'' ("bad things don't happen") and ''liveness properties'' ("good things do happen"). ...

, a class of guarantees in distributed computing *

Memory safety Memory safety is the state of being protected from various software bugs and Vulnerability (computing), security vulnerabilities when dealing with random-access memory, memory access, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers. For example, J ...

and

type safety In computer science, type safety and type soundness are the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors. Type safety is sometimes alternatively considered to be a property of facilities of a computer language; that is ...

, classes of guarantees in

programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Most programming languages are text-based formal languages, but they may also be graphical. They are a kind of computer language. The description of a programming ...

Films

* ''Safety'' (2019 film), a French live-action short film * ''Safety'' (2020 film), an American sports drama film

Other

Safety (firearms) Close-up shot of a safety of an M16A2 rifle In firearms, a safety or safety catch is a mechanism used to help prevent the accidental discharge of a firearm, helping to ensure safer handling. Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes suc ...

, a mechanism that prevents the discharge of a firearm when engaged