A safety-strategy is a human-made strategic plan that establishes the direction, priorities, resource allocation, and accountability framework for achieving and maintaining safety within an organization or system. It persists through documented strategy statements, management review cycles, and organizational communication channels — formalized in written policy and maintained through periodic revision. [formal: safety-strategia | substrate: mind | horizon: generations | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
Accepted ontology entry
safety-strategy
A safety-strategy is a human-made strategic plan that establishes the direction, priorities, resource allocation, and accountability framework for achieving and maintaining safety within an organization or system. It persists through docum…
Definition
Why it is in scope
A human-made strategic plan that sets the direction, priorities, and approach for achieving and maintaining safety within an organization or system — a construct designed to coordinate all safety-related activities toward common objectives.
Names and aliases
- safety-strategyen · CANONICAL
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- cms9293jz002i7skq3m4d9hr1SERVES →
safety-strategy is built or maintained for the sake of safety-management — it provides the strategic direction and policy framework that safety-management executes. Law 8d: servant(strategy)→master(management). Purpose is by organizational design.
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- cmsix7jfn01fpnobpcrlbbunq← INSTANCE_OF
Defense-in-depth is a specific kind of safety strategy: a layered approach to protecting systems. A competent speaker would describe defense-in-depth as 'a safety strategy.' Per Law 9, specific→general maps to INSTANCE_OF. The nearest kind is safety-strategy (not just 'safety' which is too broad).
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- Aug 2, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC
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