Safety Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk. Meanings The word 'safety' entered the English language in the 1 ...

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, Antarctica

Government

* The Internet Stopping Adults Facilitating the Exploitation of Today's Youth Act, also known as SAFETY, a United States bill introduced in 2009 * SAFETY Act, 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), an intentional defensive shot *

Safety (gridiron football position) Safety (S), historically known as a safetyman, 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 var ...

, 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 (also known as an "ordinary" or "high wheeler") and is now the most common type of bicycle. Ear ...

, 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 progra ...

, a class of guarantees in distributed computing *

Memory safety Memory safety is the state of being protected from various software bugs and security vulnerabilities when dealing with memory access, such as buffer overflows and dangling pointers. For example, Java is said to be memory-safe because its ru ...

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 ...

, classes of guarantees in

programming language A programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languages are described in terms of their Syntax (programming languages), syntax (form) and semantics (computer science), semantics (meaning), usually def ...

Films

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

Other

Safety (firearms) file:M16A2 Safety Closeup.jpg, Close-up shot of a safety of an M16 rifle, 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 ge ...

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