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Ensuring safety in case of malfunction
safety, emergency, safeguarding; see protective.
Unlikely to fail
foolproof, trouble-free, problem-free, guaranteed; see reliable 2.
See fail-safe in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
Designed so as to be impervious to human error or misuse:
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