EXHIBIT 5.1

                             MCLAUGHLIN & STERN, LLP



                               JENNIFER J. MALONI
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                                February 8, 2000



eSAFETYWORLD, Inc.
100-31 South Jersey Avenue
Setauket, New York 11733

RE:      Registration Statement on Form SB-2
         eSAFETYWORLD, Inc.

Gentlemen:

         We refer to the public offering of up to 1,250,000 shares of common
stock, $.001 par value (the "Common Stock"), $.001 par value, of eSAFETYWORLD,
Inc., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), which includes 150,000 Shares at the
initial offering price, less the Underwriter's discount, to cover
over-allotments (the "Over-Allotment Option"), and also includes 100,000 shares
of Common Stock underlying a warrant issued to the Underwriter sold pursuant to
the Registration Statement on Form SB-2 filed with the Securities Exchange
Commission on February 8, 2000 (Registration No. 333-86479) (the "Registration
Statement"), as subsequently amended from time to time.

         In furnishing our opinion, we have examined copies of said Registration
Statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. We have conferred with
officers of the Company and have examined the originals or certified, conformed
or photostatic copies of such records of the Company, certificates of officers
of the Company, certificates of public officials, and such other documents as we
have deemed relevant and necessary under the circumstances as the basis of the
opinion expressed herein. In all such examinations, we have assumed the
authenticity of all documents submitted to us as originals or duplicate
originals, the conformity to original documents of all document copies, the
authenticity of the respective originals of such latter documents, and the
MCLAUGHLIN & STERN, LLP correctness and completeness of such certificates.
Finally, we have obtained from officers of the



Company such assurances as we have considered necessary for the purposes of this
opinion.

         Based upon and subject to the foregoing and such other matters of fact
and questions of law as we have deemed relevant in the circumstances, and in
reliance thereon, it is our opinion that, when and if:

         (a) The Registration Statement shall have become effective, as the same
may hereafter be amended; and

         (b) The Common Stock to be sold shall have been sold as contemplated in
the Prospectus forming part of the Registration Statement;

then and upon the happening of each of the events set forth in paragraphs (a)
and (b), inclusive above:

                  The Common Stock being sold, upon execution and delivery of
                  proper certificates therefor, will be duly authorized, validly
                  issued and outstanding, fully paid and nonassessable shares of
                  Common Stock of the Company.

         The undersigned hereby consent to the use of their name int he
Registration Statement and in the Prospectus forming a part of the Registration
Statement, and to references in this opinion contained therein under the caption
of the Prospectus entitled "Legal Opinions."

         This opinion is limited to the matters herein, and may not be relied
upon in any manner by any other person or used for any other purpose other than
in connection with the corporate authority for the issuance of Common Stock.

                                                Very truly yours,

                                                McLAUGHLIN & STERN, LLP