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Why are higher safety factors used in medical or transit applications?

Those applications are more sensitive to failure.

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  1. Those products are rarely inspected
  2. Those applications are more sensitive to failure ✔
  3. Those products are cheaper to overbuild

Why: More sensitive applications get higher safety factors because failure there carries greater consequences.

Huh, didn't know that: More sensitive applications get higher safety factors because failure there carries greater consequences.

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Sensitive systems get extra cushion, like a safety net with a safety net.
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Answer: Those applications are more sensitive to failure. More sensitive applications get higher safety factors because failure there carries greater consequences.

  1. Safety en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safety
    Higher numbers are used in more sensitive applications such as medical or transit safety.
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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