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Safety engineering
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<p>Safety engineering is an <a href="/facts/Engineering/RFVg8H3I">engineering</a> <a href="/facts/Branches_of_science/tKykGyUj">discipline</a> which assures that engineered <a href="/facts/System/hmqQ4ASX">systems</a> provide acceptable levels of <a href="/facts/Safety/jyH5HLSg">safety</a>. It is strongly related to <a href="/facts/Industrial_engineering/TjInYQeC">industrial engineering</a>/<a href="/facts/Systems_engineering/gFwRmkDp">systems engineering</a>, and the subset <a href="/facts/System_safety/tHXVs4oA">system safety</a> engineering. Safety engineering assures that a <a href="/facts/Life-critical_system/vhVc7NJU">life-critical system</a> behaves as needed, even when components <a href="/facts/Failure/hhLBhlhN">fail</a>. </p>