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For the French Revolutionary governing body, see Committee of Public Safety.


Public Safety involves the protection of the general population from all manner of significant danger, injury, damage or harm, such as may occur in a natural disaster, and the prevention of the same. This protection is typically provided by emergency service organizations such as police, fire and EMS.

Additional organizations and job titles may include consumer protection, the emergency telephone number system, animal control officers, security officers, parking enforcement officers, police dispatchers, public prosecutors, code enforcement officers, various utility inspectors, and others.

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The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal
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Protection or protect, which generally means anything that helps to ward off some threat, may also refer to:
  • Protection (album), by Massive Attack
  • Protection (climbing), a climber's basic safety mechanism

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Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside or force, which may be physical or chemical. Injury may also refer to injured feelings or reputation rather than injuries to the body.
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Damage may refer to:

In gaming:
  • Damage (fictional game), a card game described in the science fiction novel Consider Phlebas
  • Damage Incorporated, a computer game for Mac and Windows made by Paranoid Productions in 1998

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Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside or force, which may be physical or chemical. Injury may also refer to injured feelings or reputation rather than injuries to the body.
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A natural disaster is the consequence of a natural hazard (e.g. volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide) which moves from potential in to an active phase, and as a result affects human activities.
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Prevention refers to:
  • Prevention (medical)
  • Prevention (magazine), a magazine about health in the United States.
  • Hazard prevention, the process of risk management and mitigation in emergency management.
  • Risk prevention.

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Emergency services are organisations that that ensure public safety by addressing different emergencies. Some agencies exist solely for addressing certain types of emergencies whilst others deal with ad hoc emergencies as part of their normal responsibilities.
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Police are agents or agencies empowered to enforce the law and to effect public and social order through the legitimate use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police departments of a state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a
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Fire is an oxidation process that releases energy in varying intensities in the form of light (with wavelengths also outside the visual spectrum) and heat and often creates smoke. It is commonly used to describe either a fuel in a state of combustion (e.g.
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Consumer protection is a form of government regulation which protects the interests of consumers. For example, a government may require businesses to disclose detailed information about products—particularly in areas where safety or public health is an issue, such as food.
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Many countries' public telephone networks have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance.
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An animal control officer may be an employee of a municipality, is an employee of, or a contractor to, a municipality, is charged with the responsibility of responding to calls for service ranging from stray animals to investigations of animal cruelty and dogfighting, and bringing
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Australian Institute of Public Safety is an Australian owned independent tertiary education provider of courses accredited by the Victorian Department of Education and Training. The current student population numbers around 400.
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Department Website Public Safety Canada, formerly known as Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada, legally incorporated as the federal Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
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The Committee of Public Safety (French: Comité de salut public), set up by the National Convention on April 6, 1793, formed the de facto executive government of France during the Reign of Terror (1793-4) of the French Revolution.
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The National Public Safety Commission (国家公安委員会
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National Public Safety Commission is the policy making and oversight body of the National Police Agency of South Korea. It is headquartered in Seoul. It was established on July 31 1991, as part of a general reorganization of the national police force.
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Northern Ireland

This article is part of the series:
Politics of Northern Ireland


In Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Assembly Acts: Acts
Members: 1998 - 2003 - 2007
Elections: 1998 - 2003 - 2007
Presiding Officer

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The Department of Public Safety , also called an Office of Public Safety, is a state or local government umbrella agency in the United States which serves to assist the certain agencies in their services by providing administrative, financial, and technical services and support for
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The Association of Public-Safety communications Officials-International (APCO) is the world's largest organization dedicated to public safety telecommunications.

APCO has developed several standards that bear its name.
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A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries.
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The Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) is an XML-based data format for exchanging public warnings and emergencies between alerting technologies. CAP allows a warning message to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to many applications.
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The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (U. S. CPSC) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect “against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products”.
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Emergency management (or disaster management) is the discipline of dealing with and avoiding risks.[1] It is a discipline that involves preparing, supporting, and rebuilding society when natural or human-made disasters occur.
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Many countries' public telephone networks have a single emergency telephone number, sometimes known as the universal emergency telephone number or occasionally the emergency services number, that allows a caller to contact local emergency services for assistance.
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Food safety is a scientific discipline describing the handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent Foodborne illness.

Domestic foodborne illness prevention

At home, prevention of Foodborne illness mainly consists of:

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tropical cyclone is a meteorological term for a storm system characterized by a low pressure system center and thunderstorms that produces strong wind and flooding rain. A tropical cyclone feeds on the heat released when moist air rises and the water vapor it contains condenses.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, often pronounced "nit-suh") is an agency of the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, part of the Department of Transportation.
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