I guess the corollary to that is this question: Are there situations in which treating safety and security with the same definition—assuming that everywhere “safety” is mentioned, it also means “security”—would create issues because actually they should be dealt with separately?
I note that safety management systems are specifically set aside as having to do only with safety. Are there other instances in which putting those two terms together...?
The concern expressed to us by the rail industry was that these were actually very different concepts that deserve different treatments. Just doing a wholesale sort of “one means the other” will create situations in which they're treating security with the same brush as safety in a way that might not be appropriate.
Is that a concern of the department's?