Health vs Safety - What's the difference?
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The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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, title= A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
Physical condition.
(obsolete) Cure, remedy.
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*:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
(countable) A toast to prosperity.
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The condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.
(mechanics) A mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing.
(American football) An instance of a player being sacked or tackled in the end zone, or steps out of the end zone and off the field, resulting in two points for the opposite team.
(American football) Any of the defensive players who are in position furthest from the line of scrimmage and whose responsibility is to defend against passes as well as to be the tacklers of last resort.
Preservation from escape; close custody.
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As nouns the difference between health and safety
is that health is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness while safety is the condition or feeling of being safe; security; certainty.health
English
(wikipedia health)Alternative forms
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(en-noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
Derived terms
* healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health workerReferences
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English
Noun
(wikipedia safety)- If you push it to the limit, safety is not guaranteed.
- Be sure that the safety is set before proceeding.
- ''He sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety .
- The free safety made a game-saving tackle on the runner who had broken past the linebackers.
- Imprison him, / Deliver him to safety ; and return.