I can’t seem to get most explanations from the internet and people seem to use the term in numerous ways.
Update: Ok I think I get it. People conflate the hazard and risk concept together. So when people discuss risks they are actually discussing probable hazards.
The reason this confused me is because entrepreneurs will ask about what risks there are in a project. When they just use it as a shorthand meaning what could go wrong that’s out of their control.
What also makes it confusing is that risk analysis calls the hazard column a risk column, then proceeds to add columns of impact and likelihood. When the risk should be the column that is a multiplication oh the impact and likelihood wrt the hazard.
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Risk is the uncertainty of an outcome occurring, usually used when at least one of the possible outcomes is bad. You’ll hear things like financial risk (chance of losing money), risky behavior (doing things that have a high chance of causing you or someone else harm) or even a patient being described as a “fall risk” (they may have a higher chance of being seriously injured if they were to fall, be unable to get back up, or simply be more likely to fall over unexpectedly).
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