mise en sécurité
English translation: make/making safe
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|  Selected response from: B D Finch France Local time: 07:09 | ||||||
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| 4 +1 | make/making safe |
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| 3 | ensuring safety/ enforcing safety procedures/achieving compliance with safety regulations/ |
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| 3 | safety control |
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7 hrs confidence: 
ensuring safety/ enforcing safety procedures/achieving compliance with safety regulations/ Explanation: In terms of strategy, there is no mention of reinforcing safety, i.e, this program is not explicitly intended to bring the safety procedures up to recent standards. |
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safety control Explanation: The answers already provided seem good, just adding one more option. |
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8 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1make/making safe Explanation: The correct translation of this phrase is not "improving safety"! It means making safe something that is or was unsafe. When translating technical material, one has to understand how expressions are used in the construction and engineering linguistic community. www.dorsetecho.co.uk/.../10079724.Work_to_start_on_Beaminst... 3:39pm Thursday 29th November 2012 in News. Work to make safe land around Beaminster Tunnel is to start next week. www.meadwaypark.co.uk/Collapse/Makesafe/ Making the railway safe after the tunnel collapse at Gerrards Cross ... www.english-heritage.org.uk/.../silburyseminarworthingtonch... Making safe the tunnels will ensure against all but very minor subsidence directly associated ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 8 hrs (2013-10-24 08:28:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- If the writer had meant "bringing into compliance with regulations", that is what they would have written in the source text, but they didn't. |
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Reference comments
7 hrs |
| Reference: Yes, Reference information: that is what it means, improving their safety, making them safe (mostly, ensuring compliance with a safety standard). |
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