raw or dng - which is safer?

I never, ever throw away the originals what comes of the device.

You can’t ‘unconvert’ from the DNG back to your raw (only if you tick a special option which makes the files 2x as large, so useless), and DNG is far from ‘universal’ format it was promised to be at one time.

I never really understood the desire to convert all raws to DNG, to be honest.