The phrase "a high consequence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing situations, decisions, or actions that have significant or serious outcomes or effects.
Example: "The decision to cut funding for the program could lead to a high consequence for the community, affecting many lives."
Alternatives: "a significant impact" or "a serious outcome".
§ 192.905 How does an operator identify a high consequence area?
This is because of its high seismic vulnerability due to the presence of many steep loose fill slopes with a marginal static factor of safety, and a high consequence 'value' as a result of the dense population and intense economic activity in Hong Kong.
We must avoid a further tragedy through the introduction of human factor-based risk such as fatigue, stress and other well-being concerns that increase the likelihood of a high consequence - low frequency event".
We don't typically observe when an activity aimed at reducing the likelihood of a high consequence event succeeds since it is difficult to confirm that significant loss would have occurred in the absence of the implemented action; thus reducing the incentive for a manager to make expensive mitigation actions that may not be tested (Collins et al. 2013).
The federal government requires that you be notified if you live in a "high consequence area".
The rupture location is a high consequence area within a mostly rural, wet, and low-lying region.
The pace of climate change can have a large effect on the magnitude and distribution of costs and benefits; and even the low possibility of a high-consequence event associated with change cannot be ignored.
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is a high-consequence animal disease with current vaccines providing limited protection from infection due to the high degree of genetic variation of field PRRS virus.
None of these have a severe risk level (i.e., a combination of high consequence and likelihood).
He described the Japanese quake as a "low probability, high consequence" event.
The risk of a pipeline rupture at any specific spot is incredibly minute, but when a pipeline does explode there is an officially estimated "high consequence area".
