The standard of safety applies to both temporary and permanent hazardous conditions. However, in a temporary situation, such as a customer spilling milk at 9:00am, and another customer slipping on it at 9:01am, the property owner could argue that there was not enough time to eliminate the dangerous condition. In a permanent hazardous condition, such as extremely uneven concrete on someone’s walkway that has been there for 5 years, the owner would have a difficult time arguing that they did not have enough time to eliminate the condition.