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Consumers have the right to safety of goods and services that are put into the consumption chain. Goods and service providers should not avail or sell goods and services that endanger the physical person, health and well being of consumers.
Therefore, goods and service providers must commit themselves and adhere to clear product safety guidelines. On the other hand, public institutions must develop and monitor health and safety guidelines which goods and service providers must follow in the course of doing business.
The main government agency which sets safety and quality standards for goods and services that are put into the market is the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS). The standards set by the SABS, enable consumers and other stakeholders to insist on service and safety measures from an informed point of view.                 For several years, the ubiquity of the safety issue has been accompanied by an increasingly stronger claim to a subjective right to safety. Thus, in Belgium, the existence of this right, and the correlative obligation for the authorities to guarantee its respect, regularly appear in the reasons for various texts which have recently modified the criminal law and the criminal procedure. Does this right exist? What does it cover: a right to objective safety, bearing on the absence of infringement to the people and their goods, or a right to the subjective safety which would proscribe any feeling of fear ? What would be the nature of such a right: can we classify it, as do the dominant uses, among the human rights ? Moreover, can this right be mobilized by judges or is it simply a general principle without constraining value ? Lastly, the legitimacy of the recognition of such a right should be called into question, taking into consideration the traditional and contemporary missions assigned to the legal regulation. Indeed, the emergence of a subjective right to safety seems closely related to the concept of a Risk Society, which...