Harm definition

Harm means ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development, including for example, impairment suffered from seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another;
Harm means, in relation to a child –
Harm means an unexpected or normally avoidable outcome relating to the Operators‟ Services that negatively affects a Client‟s health and/or quality of life and occurs while the Client is at the Facility or within ten (10) days of the Client‟s visit, including but not limited to: Severe Harm (critical incident) - Client attempts suicide, suffers death, complete loss of limb or organ function or requires intervention to sustain life. Moderate Harm - Client suffers partial loss or limb or organ function. Minimal Harm - Client suffers any form of harm that is less extensive and does not involve death, loss of limb or organ function, and may include clusters of infections among Clients treated in the Facility. No Apparent Harm – at the time of the event or reporting of the event, the Client does not appear to suffer any harm, but could do so in the future.

Examples of Harm in a sentence

  • These are: • Serious Violence • Violence Against Women and Girls • Serious Organised Crime and Exploitation • Neighbourhood Crime and Anti-social Behaviour • Domestic and Sexual Abuse • Prevent • Resettlement and Integration • Online Harm A number of work streams sit below each of these Boards.


More Definitions of Harm

Harm means injury, death, or loss to person or property.
Harm means anything reasonably regarded as loss, disadvantage, or injury, including harm to another person in whose welfare the person affected is interested.
Harm means ill-treatment or the impairment of health or development;
Harm means any detrimental effect of a significant nature on a person’s physical, psychological or emotional wellbeing (and includes self-harm).
Harm means loss, disadvantage, or injury or anything so regarded by the person affected, including
Harm means pain, mental anguish, emotional distress, hurt, physical or psychological damage, physical injury, serious physical injury, suffering, or distress inflicted knowingly or intentionally.
Harm means physical injury or any other damage to health, including long-term health effects;