health and safety

Risk prevention standards

Health and safety refers to regulations, practices, and conditions designed to prevent injury or illness, especially in workplaces: The factory was cited for health and safety violations.

Often appears as an adjective: health and safety standards, health and safety training.

In British usage, the phrase sometimes carries connotations of excessive caution or bureaucratic overreach: You can't do that anymore—health and safety.

Opposites
risk management approach

health and safetyreckless disregard

Conscious indifference to risk

negligence · danger · endangerment · recklessness · carelessness

regulatory philosophy

health and safetyderegulation

Removing governmental business restrictions

laissez-faire · non-compliance · unregulated · risk tolerance · lawlessness

cultural attitude

health and safetydaredevilry

Reckless boldness seeking thrills

cowboy culture · devil-may-care · living dangerously · thrill-seeking · calculated risk

Family

safe, health, healthy, safety, unhealthy, safeguard, safely, hale, safer

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G