In professional ethics, degree of safety proposed to be attained varies with

Safety: It is defined, as a thing is safe if its risks are acceptable. A thing is safe with respect to a given person or group, at a given time, if its risk is fully known, if those risks would be judged acceptable, in light of settled value principles.

The degree of safety varies with the following factors.

• The risks connected to a project or product
• The purposes of the project or product i.e. the utility of the product.
• Costs of reducing risks; the costs must be weighed against both organizational goals and degrees of
• acceptability of risks to clients and the public.
• The design of the project or product