Severity & Harm Scoring
Impact-dominant severity calculation with provisional harm weights and transparent limitations.
Domain purpose
Impact-dominant severity calculation with provisional harm weights and transparent limitations.
Fields, modifiers, profiles and tests
SC-H01Physical Harm
Apply the provisional 4.0 weighting to physical harm when evidenced.
SC-H02Environmental Harm
Apply the provisional 3.5 weighting to environmental harm when evidenced.
SC-H03Security Integrity
Apply the provisional 3.5 weighting to security integrity when evidenced.
SC-H04Privacy Violation
Apply the provisional 3.0 weighting to privacy violation when evidenced.
SC-H05Financial Loss
Apply the provisional 2.5 weighting to financial loss when evidenced.
SC-H06Psychological Harm
Apply the provisional 2.0 weighting to psychological harm when evidenced.
SC-H07Property Damage
Apply the provisional 2.0 weighting to property damage when evidenced.
SC-H08Reputational Harm
Apply the provisional 1.5 weighting to reputational harm when evidenced.
Implementation use
Determine applicability using the framework scope and system context. Implementation should be proportionate to risk and supported by evidence sufficient to validate the intended outcome.
Practitioner and validation guidance
Represent dominant and secondary harms with explicit rationale, confidence and calibration status. Retain contradictory evidence and known uncertainty.
- Validate the applicable profile and all conditional requirements.
- Retain source evidence, analyst rationale and transformation history.
- Record uncertainty and do not infer regulatory, certification or legal outcomes.