This is an article about the modern meaning of the term "public safety." See the Committee of Public Safety for the French Revolutionary governing body. 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 - 1794) of the French Revolution. ... The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a period in the history of France. ...

Public Safety involves the protection of the general population from all manners of significant danger, injury, damage or harm, such as may occur in a natural disaster, and the prevention of the same. Although this protection is provided by those traditional organizations known as Emergency Services: the police, fire and rescue, and ambulance, in the preventative sense "public safety" must be the priority of all those who, in any way, engineer circumstances for others. The word protection has several uses: Protection is a euphemism for contraception. ... Injury is damage or harm caused to the structure or function of the body caused by an outside agent or force, which may be physical or chemical. ... Fatale is also the title of a comic book published in the mid-1990s by Broadway Comics. ... Harm can be defined as causing physical or psychological/emotional damage or injury to a person, animal or other entity. ... A natural disaster is the consequence or effect of a hazardous event, occurring when human activities and natural phenomenon (a physical event, such as a volcanic eruption, earthquake, landslide etc. ... This article lacks information on the importance of the subject matter. ... It has been suggested that flame be merged into this article or section. ... Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of additional injury. ... An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ...

Additional organizations may include consumer protection, the Emergency telephone number system, animal control officers, various utility inspectors, and others. Consumer protection is government regulation to protect the interests of consumers, for example by requiring businesses to disclose detailed information about products, particularly in areas where safety or public health is an issue, such as food. ... 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. ... An animal control officer (also, more informally: dog catcher or dog warden or ) is an employee of, or a contractor to, a municipality, charged with catching stray or loose dogs, cats, and sometimes other animals, and bringing them to a compound or animal shelter, where the animals are held for...

International

Some European Union Laws includes the competence in civil protection and safety. Law (from the Old Norse lagu) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments of/for those who do...

There is not a world civil protection authority or a common world emergency number.

See also

• Emergency telephone number
• Consumer Product Safety Commission
• Office of Emergency Management
• Coastguard
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Department of Public Safety
• Tsunami
• Hurricane
• Common Alerting Protocol