a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard"
A threat that exploits a vulnerability that may cause harm to one or more assets
The probability of injury, disease, or death from exposure to a chemical agent or a mixture of chemicals In quantitative terms, risk is expressed in values ranging from zero (representing the certainty that harm will not occur) to one (representing the certainty that harm will occur) The following are examples of how risk is expressed within IRIS: E-4 or 10-4 = a risk of 1/10,000; E-5 or 10-5 = 1/100,000; E-6 or 10-6 = 1/1,000,000 Similarly, 1 3 E-3 or 1 3 x 10-3 = a risk of 1 3/1,000=1/770; 8 E-3 or 8 x 10-3 = a risk of 1/125 and 1 2 E-5 or 1 2 x 10-5 = a risk of 1/83,000
Risk is associated with a resource/task pairing to indicate the planner's confidence in the estimated effort Risk can be one of none, low, or high Some factors that may be taken into account for risk are the experience of the person and the reliability of equipment
If you run the risk of doing or experiencing something undesirable, you do something knowing that the undesirable thing might happen as a result. The officers had run the risk of being dismissed
to risk your neck: see neck. In economics and finance, an allowance for the hazard (risk) in an investment or loan. Default risk refers to the chance that a borrower will not repay a loan. If a banker believes that a borrower may not repay a loan, the banker will charge the true interest plus a premium for the default risk, the premium depending on the degree of presumed risk. All stock investment carries an implicit risk since there is no guarantee of return on investment. Trading or variability risk is the amount that the return may vary, up or down, from the expected return on investment
For an individual, the danger of losing or not making money on an investment For a mutual find, risk is generally equated with volatility A potential threat to the ability to make money in an investment There are different kinds, including: Correlation risk Country risk Credit risk Currency risk Hedging risk Information risk Interest rate risk Leverage risk Management risk Market risk Opportunity risk Political risk Risk Averse Being unwilling or unable to accept risk when investing; wanting to put money into only "safe" vehicles in spite of their lower return potential
To expose to risk, hazard, or peril; to venture; as, to risk goods on board of a ship; to risk one's person in battle; to risk one's fame by a publication
Risk is the financial uncertainty that the actual return on an investment will be different from the expected return Factors of risk that can affect an investment include inflation or deflation, currency exchange rates, liquidity, default by borrower and interest rate fluctuation See "Risky Business?" BACK TO TOP
If there is a risk of something unpleasant, there is a possibility that it will happen. There is a small risk of brain damage from the procedure In all the confusion, there's a serious risk that the main issues will be forgotten
The potential for realization of unwanted, adverse consequences to human life, health, property, or the environment; estimation of risk is usually based on the expected value of the conditional probability of the event occurring times the consequence of the event given that it has occurred Thomas Cool provides an alternative definition of risk in the context of uncertainty
The chance of possibility of loss Physicians may be held at risk if hospitalization rates exceed agreed-upon thresholds The sharing of risk is often employed as a utilization control mechanism within the HMO setting Risk is also defined in insurance as the possibility of loss associated with a given population