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In every society, risks are being permanently produced. New kinds of technical developments and new means of satisfying needs create permanent risks. This is particularly noticeable when societies develop into service societies. These embody an enormous increase in prosperity, but at the same time make necessary a super-industrialisation with a greatly increased danger potential. For some time now the risk potential in our highly technically industrialised world has been growing more quickly than investments in safety measures. This makes society more vulnerable and implies danger. A measure of the size of danger is given with the term “risk”, and protection is a form of preventive measures to avert danger