Are 'safety' and/or 'security' interchangeable, overlapping, similar or distinctly different? In reality, both are subject to linguistic uncertainty, variance and confusion, often within the same sentence or discussion. What is 'safe' may be 'secure', but what is secure may not be safe. Confused? Indeed. This linguistic drift begins within the national security and public safety narratives and varies across cultures, contexts and industries. Most importantly, they don't exist without its compansion pair. That is, they need each other. Because the absence of safety or security as a conjoined consideration routinely contributes to 'unsafe' and 'insecure', also categories as 'non-safe' and 'non-secure'. Each is a transient, fleeting and dynamic state, not guaranteed into perpetuity. Exhausting, right? 😀 Consider your own context, desires and pursuits? What proportion is actually safety? How much is security? Is a 'competent person' required for each... or will anyone do? What are the scales of knowledge, information and qualifications required? Or can anyone 'do it'? Or, do you just consider it yet another one of those things that managers just 'do'? Once you get this far, now look at the specific laws, regulations and punitive measures. Are they 'safety' or 'security' laws? That is, if found liable, guility or facing punitive measures, are they safety crimes or security crimes? Food for thought #security #securityriskmanagement #securitymanagement #securityrisks #enterprisesecurity #cybersecurity #physicalsecurity #informationsecurity #digitalsecurity #securityoperations #enterprisesecurityriskmanagement #securityassessment #intelligence #threatlintelligence #risk #riskmanagement #safety #safetyfirst #safetymanagement #safetyassessment #safetyrisks #safetyculture #safetyanalysis #personalsafety #workplacesafety #healthandsafety #hazard #danger #peril #threat #PPE #protectivesafety #workplacesafety #risk #risks #enterpriserisk #enterprisesecurityriskmanagement #intelligence #threatlintelligence #riskmanagement #riskanalysis #riskassessment #riskmanagementframework #operationalriskmanagement #projectriskmanagement #projectrisk #operationalresilience #resilience #operationalrisk #riskintelligence #governance #crisis #crisismanagement #complexity #chaos #crisisleadership #crisisplan #crisismanagementplan #stress #governance #decisionmaking #riskmanagement #riskinformed #securitymanagement #securityriskmanagement #resilience #humanfactors #emergency #disaster #emergencyresponse #travelsecurity #travelsafety #travel #businesstravel #tourism #travelrisks #travelriskmanagement
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1yInteresting. I have just handed in my MSC working paper; Safety or Security - does it matter? A research of the history of the words and the semantics related to them.