[ Safety ]

The field of risk management, also sometimes referred to as safety management, includes asset safety: working so that the bridge doesn’t fall down, or the pipeline doesn’t rupture. 

It’s possibly more common to think of ‘safety’ as OHS or WHS, related to workplace safety; oversimplified to hardhats or steel-toed boots.  WHS keeps workers safe; very important. 

I think there are (at least) four types of “safety”: workplace, process, public and personal.  Some of my work is in public safety: preventing asset failure where failure could impact on an innocent bystander (the public).

Each type has differing requirements and particular solutions.