preventability
Able to avert
Preventability is the quality of being avoidable through action or foresight.
The term appears most often in medical, legal, and safety contexts, where determining whether harm could have been avoided affects responsibility and policy: The committee assessed the preventability of each workplace injury.
A death ruled preventable implies someone or something failed.
Preventive safety measure
- protectionGuarding against harm
- safeguardPrecaution against harm
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
- shieldingProtecting from harm
defense · guard · firewall · insulation · seatbelts · airbags · helmets · goggles
Deliberate keeping away
- actionabilityAbility to implement something
- feasibilityPotential for success
- manageabilityEase of being controlled
- reversibilityCan be undone
controllability · escapability · reducibility · modifiability · responsibility
State of awaiting something
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- foreseeabilityCapacity to be anticipated
- prognosisPredicted disease course
planning · forethought · preparedness · proactivity · scenario · projection · extrapolation · prescience
Official rules governing conduct
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- supervisionOverseeing people or processes
enforcement · monitoring · restraint · containment · coordination · mitigation · handling · compliance
Administered immunity booster
- immunizationProtective medical injection
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- prophylaxisPreventive medical treatment
- treatmentCare for an ailment
deterrence · education · training · regulation · legislation · policy · enforcement · surveillance
precaution
Preventive safety measure
- protectionGuarding against harm
- safeguardPrecaution against harm
- barrierObstruction preventing passage
shielding · defense · guard · firewall · insulation · seatbelts · airbags · helmets · goggles · fencing
avoidance
Deliberate keeping away
- actionabilityAbility to implement something
- feasibilityPotential for success
- manageabilityEase of being controlled
reversibility · controllability · escapability · reducibility · modifiability · responsibility
anticipation
State of awaiting something
- predictionForecast of coming events
- forecastingEstimating future conditions
- foreseeabilityCapacity to be anticipated
prognosis · planning · forethought · preparedness · proactivity · scenario · projection · extrapolation · prescience · providence
regulation
Official rules governing conduct
- managementOrganizing and directing resources
- oversightSupervision or inadvertent omission
- governanceHow authority is exercised
supervision · enforcement · monitoring · restraint · containment · coordination · mitigation · handling · compliance · accountability
vaccination
Administered immunity booster
- immunizationProtective medical injection
- screeningEvaluative selection process
- prophylaxisPreventive medical treatment
treatment · deterrence · education · training · regulation · legislation · policy · enforcement · surveillance · monitoring
- problem traitsseverity, complexity, urgency, scope, impact
preventabilityinevitability
Quality of being unavoidable
unavoidability · inescapability · inexorability · certainty · ineluctability
preventabilityfate
Predetermined course of events
destiny · predestination · predetermination · determinism · foreordination
prevent, prevented, prevention, preventing, preventive, preventative, preventable, unpreventable, preventer