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Physical Safety Physical safety is defined by an absence of any kind of violence – physical, emotional, sexual, or verbal - including suicidality and self-destructive behavior; freedom from substance abuse and other addictions; healthy, safe, relational sexual behavior; the avoidance of unnecessary risks; and maintaining good health practices. Physical safety is the easiest aspect of safety to describe, largely because it relies on tangible and concrete factors. Physical safety is usually what people think of when describing the sense of being safe, since without it, other forms of safety are difficult to achieve. Locked doors, bars on windows, straitjackets, seclusion and restraints, weapons of increasingly lethal force - have all been used – and misused – in the service of physical safety. Unfortunately, however, an exclusive focus on the maintenance of physical safety tends to result in the creation of environments more like prisons than therapeutic spaces. Physical safety alone does not constitute a safe environment for growth. Likewise, breaches in physical safety generally do not occur until the other forms of safety have already been violated.
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