Hazard (AS/NZS 4360) (Risk Management) – a source of potential harm.

Health and safety – See ‘Occupational health and safety'.

Hire purchase – a system for financing the purchase of plant and equipment, where the ownership is vested with the lender until the final payment is made. The borrower is required to place a deposit and make periodic (usually monthly) repayments at a flat rate of interest.

Hits (IT) – every click on a website will generate a “hit”. A web page with 15 graphics and one paragraph will register 16 hits every time it is viewed. Hits are not commonly used in website statistics anymore.

Home page – the main page of a website and the first screen that a visitor sees displayed when connecting to that site; usually has links to other web pages.

Hosting costs (IT) – monthly fees paid to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) for hosting a domain name.

Human resources – refers to managing the people employed by a business. The field has moved from a traditionally administrative function to a strategic one that recognises the link between talented and engaged people and business success.

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