Alternative Names
- Replacement of "switch" with "control" or name denoting a specific type of switch, e.g., "button"/"trigger"/"pedal"/"handle"/"brake"
- Replacement of "dead man's" or "dead-man" with "live-man" (commonly used in the robotics industry)
- "Driver's Safety Device" ("DSD") (the official term in the UK for switches of this type as used on railway trains)
- "Operator Presence Control" ("OPC")
- "Vigilance control"
- "Alerter system" (in higher-order systems in which the switch activates to sound an alarm rather than deactivates to disable the higher-order system)
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