Also called: Accident prevention
Important: This page is general information, not medical advice. It does not recommend or prescribe any treatment. Always consult your doctor or pharmacist before starting, stopping or changing any medicine.
About Safety
You can't remove all the safety hazards from your life, but you can reduce them. To avoid many major hazards and prepare for emergencies:
- Keep emergency phone numbers by your telephones
- Make a first aid kit for your home
- Make a family emergency plan
- Install and maintain smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors
- Keep guns unloaded and locked up. Lock up the ammunition separately.
- Follow the directions carefully when using tools or equipment
Young children are especially at risk. Supervision is the best way to keep them safe. Childproofing the house can also help.
It sits within Safety Issues.
When to speak to someone. Reading about a topic cannot tell you whether it applies to you. Speak to a doctor or pharmacist if symptoms are severe, sudden, getting worse, or simply not going away — and seek emergency care immediately for chest pain, breathing difficulty, sudden weakness or confusion, or a serious allergic reaction.
Research on Safety
84,729 studies areregistered for this condition on ClinicalTrials.gov, the U.S. National Library of Medicine's public registry. A selection is below — the links go straight to the registry entry, not to a summary of ours.
What a registered study does and does not mean. Registration means a study exists and has been declared publicly. It says nothing about whether the treatment being tested works, is safe, or is available to you. Many studies find no benefit — that is what research is for. Never seek out an experimental treatment on the strength of a registry entry alone.
Research currently under way
- Safety and Efficacy of OTL78 (Zopocianine)Clinton Bahler
- Chinese Medicine for Treating Chronic PharyngolaryngitisChinese University of Hong Kong
- A Phase 2 Master Protocol Assessing Inebilizumab and Blinatumomab in Autoimmune DiseasesAmgen
- A Study to Assess a New Medicine Called IPN01195 When Administered Alone in Adults With Advanced Solid TumoursIpsen
- A Research Study to Look at How Two Different Doses of CagriSema and One Dose of Semaglutide Help People Living With Obesity With or Without Type 2 Diabetes Lose WeightNovo Nordisk A/S
- Acceptability & Safety of Two Sequential Doses of Psilocybin in Bipolar Disorder II Depression and SuicidalityThe University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Research already completed
- Phase 2a Study to Evaluate Safety and Explore Efficacy of J2H-1702 for NASHJ2H Biotech
- Blended Learning for Patient Safety Education in Nursing and Midwifery StudentsMardin Artuklu University
- A Study of Retatrutide (LY3437943) in Participants With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Who Have Obesity or OverweightEli Lilly and Company
- A Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of Baxdrostat in Participants With Uncontrolled Hypertension on Two or More Medications Including Participants With Resistant HypertensionAstraZeneca
Study data from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 2026-07-30. Registry entries are supplied by study sponsors and investigators; ClinicalTrials.gov does not verify their scientific validity. PocketsInfo is not affiliated with, and not endorsed by, the NLM or the NIH.
Where to read more
Rather than paraphrase, we point you to the primary sources. Every link below is to a government health agency, a national institute or a recognised medical body — grouped by what you are trying to find out.
Learn More
- American Red CrossAmerican Red Cross
- Child Safety: MedlinePlus Health TopicNational Library of Medicine
- Crime Prevention and Personal Safety Tips to Help Keep You and Your Community Safe from CrimeNational Crime Prevention Council
- Guns in the Home: How to Keep Kids SafeAmerican Academy of Pediatrics
- Pedestrian SafetyNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Pest Control and Pesticide Safety for ConsumersEnvironmental Protection Agency
- Preventing Injuries from Electrical, Heating, and Cooling SystemsNemours Foundation
- Safety for Older Consumers: Home Safety ChecklistConsumer Product Safety Commission
- Staying safe at homeMedical Encyclopedia
Medical subject headings
Clinicians and researchers index this subject under Safety. These are the terms to use when searching medical literature.
This page is built from the MedlinePlus health topic record for Safety, a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health. Information is from MedlinePlus.gov. PocketsInfo is not affiliated with, and is not endorsed by, the NLM or the NIH. Retrieved 30 July 2026.