Harm Context Standard
(HCS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
Harm Context Standard governs the identification, formation,
structuring, sufficiency, and maintenance of the context
within which Harm may meaningfully exist or become relevant
for governance, establishing the affected subject or object,
domain, temporal conditions, and material relationships
necessary for the Harm lifecycle to proceed without
prematurely establishing Harm itself.
HCS governs Harm Context.
Harm Context → Harm Exposure → Harm Emergence → Harm
Recognition → Harm Boundary → Harm Determination Harm cannot
be governed legitimately until the context within which it may
exist has been sufficiently established without assuming that
Harm already exists.
Harm Exposure Standard
(HES)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Exposure Standard (HES) governs how a subject,
object, system, organization, infrastructure, environment,
population, or other governed entity becomes exposed to a
condition capable of contributing to Harm, including how that
exposure is identified, qualified, scoped, temporally
structured, accumulated, changed, interrupted, terminated, and
preserved without treating exposure itself as established
Harm.
HES governs Harm Exposure.
Harm Context → Harm Exposure → Harm Emergence → Harm
Recognition → Harm Boundary → Harm Determination → Harm State
→ Harm Change & Propagation → Harm Containment → Harm
Mitigation → Harm Recovery & Residual Harm → Harm Resolution &
Finality Exposure establishes a governed relationship to a
Harm-capable condition; it does not establish that Harm has
occurred.
Harm Emergence Standard
(HEMS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Emergence Standard (HEMS) governs how Harm begins to
exist from a governed Harm Exposure state by establishing the
transition through which Harm-relevant conditions,
interactions, effects, accumulations, combinations, or other
materially sufficient developments cross from Exposure into
existing Harm.
HEMS governs Harm Emergence.
Harm may begin before it is recognized, reported, formally
determined, attributed, or assigned to an accountable or
liable actor.
Harm Recognition Standard
(HRS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Recognition Standard (HRS) governs when and on what
basis existing or emerging Harm becomes recognized for
governance, including the identification, qualification,
confirmation, latency, delay, uncertainty, conflict,
correction, reassessment, and continuity of Harm Recognition
without treating recognition as the moment Harm necessarily
began to exist or as equivalent to formal Harm Determination.
HRS governs Harm Recognition.
Harm may exist long before it is noticed, reported, detected,
acknowledged, or formally determined; recognition changes the
governance state of Harm, not necessarily the reality state of
Harm.
Harm Boundary Standard
(HBS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Boundary Standard (HBS) governs how the boundary of a
recognized Harm object is established, structured, qualified,
expanded, contracted, disputed, corrected, reassessed, and
preserved by determining which subjects, effects,
manifestations, temporal intervals, domains, locations,
relationships, and downstream consequences belong to the
governed Harm and which remain outside it.
HBS governs Harm Boundary.
A legitimate Harm Boundary must follow the materially
supportable structure of the Harm itself — no narrower and no
broader than governed reality supports.
Harm Determination Standard
(HDS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Determination Standard (HDS) governs whether Harm can
legitimately be determined to exist as a formally governed
Harm object and what Harm has been established, using
qualified Recognition and Boundary inputs, explicit
determination criteria, governed evaluation, uncertainty,
contradiction, sufficiency, determination states, and a
traceable Governed Harm Record.
HDS governs Harm Determination.
A legitimate Harm Determination does not manufacture Harm; it
establishes, through governed criteria and qualified inputs,
what Harm can legitimately be said to have been established.
Harm State Standard
(HSS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm State Standard (HSS) governs how a formally governed
Harm object is represented, classified, qualified, monitored,
reassessed, and transitioned according to its current Harm
condition throughout the period between formal Harm
Determination and subsequent Harm Change, Propagation,
Containment, Mitigation, Recovery, Residual Harm, Resolution,
and Finality.
HSS governs Harm State Governance.
Harm does not become static merely because it has been
determined; HSS preserves its identity while governing how its
current state persists, changes, worsens, reduces, recovers,
or remains residual over time.
Harm Change & Propagation Standard
(HCPS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Change & Propagation Standard (HCPS) governs how
existing Harm changes after it has become a formally governed
Harm object, including how Harm increases, decreases,
accumulates, compounds, propagates across subjects, objects,
systems, domains, locations, and boundaries, and produces
cascading or downstream Harm.
HCPS governs Harm Change & Propagation Governance.
Harm may continue changing after its originating mechanism has
stopped, accumulate without a single dominant event, propagate
beyond its original scope, and generate downstream Harm
through cascading consequences.
Harm Containment Standard
(HCOS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Containment Standard (HCOS) governs how further
expansion, propagation, escalation, accumulation, compounding,
cascading, or materially relevant continuation of an already
governed Harm is bounded, interrupted, isolated, restricted,
or stopped without falsely representing existing Harm as
mitigated, recovered, resolved, or final.
HCOS governs Harm Containment Governance.
Stopping the mechanism is not enough; Containment is
established only when the targeted further development of Harm
has actually been bounded or stopped.
Harm Mitigation Standard
(HMS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Mitigation Standard (HMS) governs how existing
governed Harm or its consequences are materially reduced,
including the identification of Mitigation Need, application
of Mitigation Action, evaluation of Mitigation Effect and
Outcome, and verification that claimed Harm reduction has
actually occurred.
HMS governs Harm Mitigation Governance.
Mitigation is established by material reduction in Harm or its
consequences—not by the completion of an intervention intended
to reduce them.
Harm Recovery & Residual Harm Standard
(HRRHS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
The Harm Recovery & Residual Harm Standard (HRRHS) governs how
recovery from governed Harm is initiated, progressed,
evaluated, and distinguished from Harm reduction, and how Harm
that continues to remain after recovery is identified,
bounded, and represented as Residual Harm.
HRRHS governs Harm Recovery & Residual Harm Governance.
Recovery does not necessarily restore the pre-Harm state, and
recovery does not necessarily eliminate Residual Harm.
Harm Resolution & Finality Standard
(HRFS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Harm Governance
HRFS governs Harm.
HRFS governs Harm Governance.