Hazard

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Hazard may mean:

Dangers, risks, problems

A hazard is a source of potential harm. A hazard has three modes:

  1. Dormant (there are no people around; there is no risk)
  2. Armed (there is a person or people in the vicinity; there is risk)
  3. Active (human reaction time is too slow to combat the effect of the hazard; it is too late to prevent the conseqences of the hazard)
  • A hazard, for instance a natural hazard, a danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety.
  • A hazard (computer architecture), a type of problem inherent in pipelined processors, including data hazard, branching hazard, and structural hazard.
  • A hazard (logic), a fault or glitch in a digital logic system, including static hazard and dynamic hazard.
  • A hazard pointer, a strategy to deal with reclaiming memory in multithreaded environments.
  • A moral hazard, the name given to the risk that one party to a contract can change their behaviour to the detriment of the other party once the contract has been concluded.
  • A race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors.
  • A Hazard symbol list exists.
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