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Risk

At a glance: How likely a chemical is to cause harm at a given exposure.

Risk varies depending on exposure to the chemical, 1 and is commonly written as Hazard × Exposure = Risk. 1 The practical upshot: even if something is highly hazardous, if you are never exposed to enough of it, you have little to no risk — and we can reduce risk by reducing exposure. 2 This is the quantity that NGRA ultimately estimates.

Sources

  1. Hazard and risk assessment of chemicals — an introduction
  2. Hazard vs Risk
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