safety issue

collocation in English

meaningsofsafetyandissue

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safety
noun[U]
uk
/ˈseɪf.ti/us
/ˈseɪf.ti/
a state in which or a place where you are safe and not in danger or ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofsafetyandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsafety issue

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In the absence of timely control checks, farm-bottled milk will continue to be a microbiologicalsafetyissue.
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Thesafetyissuewas not finally resolved in 1869 and 1870.
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Asafetyissuewith even wider implications involves achieving control over remembering.
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However, little research has been done with the humansafetyissuein mind.
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However, there is an important unsettledsafetyissueinvolved in the use of modified lentivirus: it is currently not known whether they can recombine back to potentially virulent wild-type virus.
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We do not recognise working time as being a genuine health andsafetyissue.
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We regard this as asafetyissue, but we also do not want what are popularly called ‘sprinters’ to interfere with mobility in urban areas.
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On culling, that is something we wish to avoid, but we have to take account of thesafetyissue.
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The wholesafetyissuemust be dealt with exhaustively at a public inquiry.
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It is therefore very easy to see the wider implications of thesafetyissue.
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This is asafetyissueand not just a social issue.
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There is asafetyissuewhich should be recognised.
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Thesafetyissueis a very important point.
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The paramountsafetyissuecauses a distinction to be drawn between the two conditions for performances in small premises.
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As regards thesafetyissue, the two main dangers mentioned in this regard are cancer, mostly osteosarcoma, and hip fractures in elderly women.
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I must confess, however, that this has surprised me, since it had always been thesafetyissuethat really concerned me.
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Let me take up one or two aspects of thesafetyissue.
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That is clearly a serious publicsafetyissue.
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I make no apology for raising thesafetyissue.
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The environmental aspects of opencasting are just as emotive as thesafetyissueis for deep mines.
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