occupational hazards

Noun

occupational hazard (plural occupational hazards)

1. A substantial risk to a worker's physical or mental well-being which is present in a certain task, job, or profession.
   • They are the abrasive breed of radio and television personalities, most of them talk-show hosts, who treat their profession as a verbal adjunct to street fighting. . . . Threats and sometimes violence are indeed an occupational hazard.1984 July 9, Richard Lacayo et al., “Show Business: Audiences Love to Hate Them”, in Time
2. (broadly, figuratively) An unpleasant, inconvenient, or unusual circumstance which occurs or is likely to occur during the course of one's employment.
   • The attentions of passionate spinsters were an occupational hazard for all members of the clergy.1988, Susan Howatch, Glittering Images, →ISBN, page 10