product harm potential

ID

ADDICTO:0000832

Curation status
Published
Created

20 Jan '21

Modified

29 Nov '24

Definition

A product disposition that is realised as harm processes resulting from its use.

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Informal definition

The potential for use of a product to cause harm.

Comment

This entity is only meaningful when operationalised in terms of whether the harm is per individual user, per person or thing being harmed, or whether it is in a population, and the harm itself is defined and operationalised. If the harm being referred to is harm to health, this must be specified.

Fuzzy set

No

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