What are the differences between danger and risk?
Master the principles of industrial and regulatory toxicology

Danger is a static notion of potentiality.

An intrinsic property of a chemical substance, the hazard is the set of physical and toxicological characteristics that present a potential danger.

Hazard is a chemical substance's "calling card". It is its inherent reactivity that defines and constitutes it. Hazard can be expressed in many ways:

• modification of a physiological factor ;

• mortality ;

• acute toxicity ;

• chronic toxicity ;...