Safety engineering is an applied science strongly related to systems engineering / industrial engineering and the subset System Safety Engineering. Safety engineering assures that a life-critical system behaves as needed even when components fail.
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Famous quotes containing the words safety and/or engineering:
“Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
—Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)
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—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)