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EDITORS LETTER According to Wikipedia there are two slightly different meanings of safety For example home safety may indicate a building s ability to protect against external harm events such as weather home invasion etc or may indicate that its internal installations such as appliances stairs etc are safe not dangerous or harmful for its inhabitants Discussions of safety often include mention of related terms Security is such a term With time the definitions between these two have often become interchanged equated and frequently appear juxtaposed in the same sentence Readers unfortunately are left to conclude whether they comprise a redundancy This confuses the uniqueness that should be reserved for each by itself When seen as unique as we intend here each term will assume its rightful place in influencing and being influenced by the other Safety is the condition of a steady state of an organisation or place doing what it is supposed to do What it is supposed to do is defined in terms of public codes and standards associated architectural and engineering designs corporate vision and mission statements and operational plans and personnel policies For any organisation place or function large or small safety is a normative concept It complies with situation specific definitions of what is expected and acceptable Using this definition protection from a home s external threats and protection from its internal structural and equipment failures see Meanings above are not two types of safety but rather two aspects of a home s steady state Security is the process or means physical or human of delaying preventing and otherwise protecting against external or internal defects dangers loss criminals and other individuals or actions that threaten hinder or destroy an organisations steady state and deprive it of its intended purpose for being Using this generic definition of safety it is possible to specify the elements of a security program REISE PAGE 3
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