Industry guides
eSafety’s Safety by Design industry guides build on the Safety by Design principles and assessment tools.
They further guide and support technology companies to embed safety into the culture, ethos, and operations of their businesses – from the ground up.
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Designing for Safety: Preventing child sexual exploitation and abuse online
Online child sexual abuse and exploitation is happening across all digital services, with artificial intelligence encouraging and enabling a new class of criminals.
Intentional design choices by industry can help remove this abuse from online platforms and services. Whether you’re building a messaging app, a gaming platform, a fintech tool or a social network, understanding and addressing the risks is essential to protecting children, your users, and your platform.
Safety by Design is an essential approach to addressing this illegal harm. While regulation is in force in many countries to combat online child sexual abuse and exploitation, Safety by Design helps industry meet their obligations, as well as lift safety standards above what is required by regulators.
Who is this toolkit for
This toolkit is designed for companies of all sizes – from early-stage start-ups to large-scale platforms – looking to adopt best-practice and innovative Safety by Design approaches to prevent, detect and disrupt child sexual abuse and exploitation.
What’s inside
While implementing Safety by Design can seem complex, this toolkit provides the necessary tools to make it achievable:
- Tool A: Applying Safety by Design principles in the prevention, disruption and detection of child sexual abuse and exploitation
- Tool B: A checklist to help identify risk factors across products, services or features
- Tool C: Common interventions to prevent, detect and disrupt this abuse across the technology sector
- Tool D: Guidance for start-ups
- Tool E: Good-practice guidelines for user reporting
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Technology, Gendered Violence and Safety by Design
Almost all technological products and services can be weaponised for gender-based violence, including social media, dating apps, online games, generative AI and virtual reality. This guide provides practical steps that industry can take to prevent and reduce harms inflicted on women through technology, such as hate speech and harassment, deepfake pornography and stalking.
This guide explains how implementing Safety by Design can help identify, assess, and address tech-facilitated gender-based violence
What’s inside
Topics covered in the guide:
- What is tech-facilitated gender-based violence, who does it affect and what is the impact?
- Who are the perpetrators and how do they weaponise digital products, services and data?
- Practical steps for applying the Safety by Design principles to mitigate the risks
- Case studies from industry with examples of technical interventions, processes and practices that can mitigate the risks of tech-facilitated gender-based violence.
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Last updated: 04/03/2026