Risk level of agents and/or operations requiring additional control measures beyond those for moderate risk. These are agents or operations with various dangerous combinations of the following characteristics: (1) low infective doses for personnel, animals or plants; (2) high concentrations: (3) release of microbial aerosols: and (4) genetic alteration or recombination that significantly increases potential pathogenicity or virulence.

Having a high risk for developing cancer compared to the general population. Back to Glossary Index

High Risk is another way of describing Bad Credit or Adverse Credit. Having a bad credit rating can make getting loans more difficult, but ADM can arrange loans for people with bad credit, with CCJs, arrears, defaults and even discharged bankrupts.

is a determination made by the awarding agency of a recipient's ability to financially administer Federal project funds. Additional reporting requirements are imposed on high risk recipients.

When the chance of developing cancer is greater than that normally seen in the general population. Patients may be at high risk from many factors, including heredity, personal habits or the environment.

Compared to the rest of the population, the patient has a greater chance of having or developing a medical problem because of a current medical condition.

Supervision level for offenders with high risk/high need. Close supervision with at least two personal contacts per month.

(of severe thunderstorms) - Severe weather is expected to affect more than 10 percent of the area. A high risk is rare, and implies an unusually dangerous situation and usually the possibility of a major severe weather outbreak. (See slight risk, moderate risk, convective outlook.)

High risk consumers have delinquencies, bankruptcies, charge-offs or public record items on their credit report. These are indications to lenders that a consumer has been an irresponsible user of credit, and will likely be so in the future. High risk consumers may only be able to get credit with very high interest rates, if at all.

High risk implies that the problem identified will likely result in a compromise in the near future, that the problem identified may be taken advantage of by an adversary with a low skill level, or that the compromise will provide significant entry into the enterprise itself.

High Risk was a program aired by the CBS television network as part of its 1988 fall lineup.