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Patient Safety

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Patient Safety at University of Aberdeen

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: security services
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.abdn.ac.uk
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

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Safety
Safety is the state of being "safe" (from French sauf), the condition of being protected from harm or other non-desirable outcomes. Safety can also refer to the control of recognized hazards in order to achieve an acceptable level of risk.
Safety
Una salus victis nullam sperare salutem.
The only safe course for the defeated is to expect no safety. Virgil, Aeneid, II.354 Virgil, Aeneid, II.354
Safety
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
Thomas Brooks, p. 532. cited in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
Safety
Choosing safety is a choice of life over career.
Warren Farrell (2005) Why Men Earn More. p. 35
Researchers are developing experimental and computational models to understand how gas solubilities within different magma compositions affect volcanic eruptions.
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