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Definition

circumstance in which people, property or the environment is/are exposed to one or more hazards

 

This is a concrete item and can be implemented directly

Term: hazardous situation; 
Plural: hazardous situations; 

Notes

Examples

Diagrammatic representation

Simple graph - hazardous situation

Required associations

a number of events occurs in exactly one hazardous situation

Optional associations

a number of hazardous situations reveal one or more hazards
a number of vulnerabilities lead to a number of hazardous situations

Generalisations

hazardous situation

Specialisations

hazardous situation