Danger

 Risk is the potential of loss (an undesirable outcome, however not necessarily so) resulting from a given action, activity and/or inaction. The notion implies that a choice having an influence on the outcome sometimes exists (or existed). Potential losses themselves may also be called "risks". Any human endeavor carries some risk, but some are much riskier than others.

Risk can be defined in seven different ways

1. The Template:Wiki of something happening multiplied by the resulting cost or benefit if it does.

2. The Template:Wiki or threat of quantifiable damage, injury, liability, loss, or any other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, and that may be avoided through preemptive action.

3. Finance: The Template:Wiki that an actual return on an investment will be lower than the expected return. Financial risk can be divided into the following categories: Basic risk, Capital risk, Country risk, Default risk, Delivery risk, Economic risk, Exchange rate risk, Interest rate risk, Liquidity risk, Operations risk, Payment system risk, Template:Wiki risk, Refinancing risk, Reinvestment risk, Settlement risk, Sovereign risk, and Underwriting risk.

4. Food industry: The possibility that due to a certain hazard in food there will be an negative effect to a certain magnitude.

5. Insurance: A situation where the Template:Wiki of a variable (such as burning down of a building) is known but when a mode of occurrence or the actual value of the occurrence (whether the fire will occur at a particular property) is not. A risk is not an uncertainty (where neither the Template:Wiki nor the mode of occurrence is known), a peril (cause of loss), or a hazard (something that makes the occurrence of a peril more likely or more severe).

6. Securities trading: The Template:Wiki of a loss or drop in value. Trading risk is divided into two general categories: (1) Systemic risk affects all securities in the same class and is linked to the overall capital-market system and therefore cannot be eliminated by diversification. Also called market risk. (2) Nonsystematic[clarification needed] risk is any risk that isn't market-related or is not systemic. Also called nonmarket risk, extra-market risk, or unsystemic risk.

7. Workplace: Product of the consequence and Template:Wiki of a hazardous event or phenomenon. For example, the risk of developing Template:Wiki is estimated as the incremental Template:Wiki of developing Template:Wiki over a lifetime as a result of exposure to potential carcinogens (cancer-causing Template:Wiki).