Hi,
I'm not sure it helps but can you identify area/areas or resources in your setting where all four of these come together?
A climbing frame, Paints, easels, large dolls houses/garages, bricks, gardening equipment, sand & water play?
Safety can be seen as an 'environment - it's something or somewhere you make/have made safe.
Risk - are all opportunities to be hurt, harmed, injured
Protection are things you do to safeguard everyone & everything - these actions are what helps a place or item to become safe.
Challenge - is in activities or ideas that motivate, interest, engage ..
The balance or difference between safety and risk is in 'how safe do you make something if you want children and adults to experience levels of risk.
We'd never boil a kettle again if ultimate safety were in place.
Protection and challenge are a little similar ..
Protection against falling on a balancing beam/adventure playground could be to hold a hand - because this protects so well would you always hold hands regardless of the other's age and ability and how challenging would this all be for the person who's hand is being held.
Hth
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