Editing Safety engineering (section)

{{Short description|Engineering discipline which assures that engineered systems provide acceptable levels of safety}}
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[[File:ISS_impact_risk.jpg|thumb|300px|right|NASA's illustration showing high impact risk areas for the International Space Station]]
'''Safety engineering''' is an [[engineering]] [[Branches of science|discipline]] which assures that engineered [[System|systems]] provide acceptable levels of [[safety]]. It is strongly related to [[industrial engineering]]/[[systems engineering]],  and the subset [[system safety]] engineering. Safety engineering assures that a [[life-critical system]] behaves as needed, even when components [[Failure|fail]].