Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

Hazardous Situation  

Type

  • owl:NamedIndividual

Definition

  • [IPCC] It is the possibility of a physical event or event pattern, which could be either natural or human-caused, that has the capacity to result in loss of life, injury, or other detrimental health effects, as well as property, infrastructure, livelihoods, service provision, ecosystems, and environmental resource damage and loss. Hazardous situations are circumstances in which people, infrastructures, urban spaces or the environment is/are exposed to one or more harms. Hazard is a situation that contains "a source of energy or physiological factors and behaviors that, if uncontrolled, will lead to harmful/harmful events/occurrences" (Shinar, Gurion, and Flascher, 1991, p. 1095, apud. Grimaldi and Simonds, 1984, p. 236). Hazard is a condition or set of circumstances that has the potential to cause or contribute to injury or death" (Sanders and McCormick, 1993, p. 675).

URI

http://www.return.com/ontologies/2024/vocab#Hazardous_Situation

Download this concept: