occupational hazard

1. 1.

   any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury

   Broaderhazard

Questions about occupational hazard

What does occupational hazard mean?

occupational hazard means "any condition of a job that can result in illness or injury".

Is occupational hazard a common word?

occupational hazard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.