health and safetynoun [ U ]
uk/ˌhelθ ən ˈseɪf.ti/us/ˌhelθ ən ˈseɪf.ti/the laws, rules, and principles that are intended to keep people safe from injury or disease at work and in public places:
Tonight's performance has had to be cancelled for health and safety reasons.
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Safe and secure
- as safe as houses idiom
- bite
- coast
- copper-bottomed
- fail-safe
- firmly
- friendly
- immune
- innocent
- innocuous
- inoffensive
- inviolate
- kind
- ozone-friendly
- safety net
- sb/sth won't bite idiom
- seaworthy
- securely
- sheltered
- the coast is clear idiom
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