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hazard is an event posing a threat to life, health, property or environment. Hazard may also refer to:
Chemical hazard, a property of a material dangerous to human life or healthA hazard, for instance a
natural hazard, a danger or source of danger, especially one threatening human safety
Hazard (computer architecture), a type of problem inherent in pipelined processors, including data hazard, branching hazard, and structural hazard
Hazard (logic), a fault or glitch in a digital logic system, including static hazard and dynamic hazard
Hazard pointer, a strategy to deal with reclaiming memory in multithreaded environments
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
Race hazard, a glitch caused by timing errors
Hazard symbol, easily recognizable symbols designed to warn about hazardous materials or locations
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