personal safety
Individual bodily security
Personal safety refers to protection from physical harm, danger, or threat to one's wellbeing.
The term appears in contexts ranging from workplace regulations to self-defense courses to parental warnings: The company takes personal safety seriously, She carries pepper spray for personal safety.
It encompasses awareness of surroundings, precautionary behavior, and measures taken to avoid injury or assault.
- CPR trainingLifesaving technique instruction
- boundariesLines marking separation
- alarm systemsDevices detecting unauthorized entry
- escape routesPlanned paths for evacuation
- exit signMarker showing the way out
helmet · buddy system · travel buddy · evacuation plans · vigilance · pepper spray · panic button · streetwise · street smarts · well-lit areas · fire drills · risk assessment · threat detection · body language · survival kits · intuition · self-defense · situational awareness
- Safety Tipsstay alert, lock it up, see something say something, buddy system, well-lit areas
- health educationhealth education, health curriculum, school health, health literacy, health videos
- emergency preparednessemergency kit, evacuation plan, emergency plan, emergency alerts, emergency supplies
- self-defenseself-defense, martial arts, self-protection, karate, pepper spray
- sex edsex education, sex ed, puberty, consent education, contraception
- workplace safetyworkplace safety, PPE, safety standards, worker safety, goggles
personal safetyphysical harm
Damage to body
bodily harm · injury · assault · physical threat · harm
personal safetyrecklessness
Careless disregard for danger
hazardous conditions · risk-taking · precariousness · carelessness · insecurity
personal safetyproperty protection
Safeguarding owned assets
asset protection · national security · public safety · collective security