Ohutusnõue
Ohutusnõue is an Estonian term meaning a safety requirement. It refers to a specification, criterion, or constraint designed to ensure safety for people, property, the environment, or the operation of a system, product, or process. The word combines ohutus (safety) and nõue (requirement). Ohutusnõue can be functional, describing what a design must do to be safe, or performance-based, describing the level or outcome of safety that must be achieved.
In practice, ohutusnõuded arise from risk assessment, hazard analysis, and from national or international standards and
Practitioners identify which ohutusnõuded apply to a given context, embed them into design and operational practices,
Examples of ohutusnõued include electrical safety requirements to prevent shock, structural or guardrail standards to protect
See also: ohutus, ohutusstandard, riskihindamine, vastavus, standard.