Abstract: A safety closure, particularly safe in the hands of children, to safely close containers composed of an assembly of an inner cap and an outer cap, the inner cap provided with threading for screwing onto the mouth of a container. The outer cap can be depressed over the inner cap against a resilient force provided by lips coating with a conical surface. When depressed, teeth on the outer cap mesh with teeth on the inner cap to effect unscrewing of the closure. A ratchet provided by teeth on the inner cap cooperating with tangential protrusions on the outer cap enable onscrewing of the closure but prevent offscrewing.