China Safety Science Journal ›› 2023, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 1-8.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2023.05.0926

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Investigation of safety & security attributes

WU Chao1,2()   

  1. 1 School of Resources and Safety Engineering, Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410083, China
    2 Safety & Security Theory Innovation and Promotion Center (STIPC), Central South University, Changsha Hunan 410083, China
  • Received:2022-12-21 Revised:2023-03-15 Online:2023-05-28 Published:2023-11-28

Abstract:

The words safety & security (simplified as SS) are the most basic terms of SS discipline. Only by clarifying SS characteristics, connotation, extension and development timely can we better understand SS science and study its development law. Therefore, using the methods of historical analysis and logical thinking and reasoning, this paper expounded the dimension and complexity of SS, the specialty and popularity of SS, the ontology and epistemology of SS, the natural and social attributes of SS, and the classification method of SS definitions. Then the nature and characteristics of the discipline of SS science were inferred. The research conclusions are as follows: discussing SS issues requires a common language environment. The SS goes beyond the scope of technological terminology. Since SS is a reflection of human understanding, it is difficult for SS issues research to enter the ontological level. The natural and social characteristics of human beings determine that SS has dual attributes of nature and society, and the eternal nature of contradictions, which leads to the complexity of SS issues and the diversity of its definitions. The paradigm of giving SS definition through "preset + SS" can better express the scope and margin of SS.

Key words: safety & security attributes, dimension, complexity, ontology, epistemology, safety & security definition, safety & security science