Biological hazard: crosswalk to external standards

The external standards in the crosswalk domains of biological hazard, from the register, with the relation each has to the Nexus Standards; every row links the source body, and relations are evidenced by attestations with their own UNIs (Unique Nexus Identifier). Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.

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Crosswalk graph · biological hazardFrom the registry

Nexus StandardsDomainsExternal standardsIssuing bodiesConsumers

3 Nexus Standards · 3 domains · 22 external standards · 18 issuing bodies · 1 consumers. Relations are register entries (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite), never compliance claims; names belong to their stewards.

Crosswalk graph47 nodes and 55 links from registry/external-standards.yaml, registry/subsites.yaml and registry/consumers.yaml. Relations (adopt, profile, crosswalk, cite) are register entries, never compliance claims.

01Health

Health: 8 entries.

Standard	Body	Version	Relation	Access	Verified
WHO International Health Regulations (2005) with 2024 amendments	World Health Organization (World Health Assembly)	2005; amendments adopted 1 June 2024, in force 19 September 2025	cite	open	verified
WHO Joint External Evaluation tool: International Health Regulations (2005) - third edition	World Health Organization	third edition (2022)	crosswalk	open	verified
One Health approach and the Quadripartite One Health Joint Plan of Action	WHO, FAO, UNEP, WOAH	2022	cite	open	unverified
ISO 35001:2019 Biorisk management for laboratories and other related organisations	ISO/TC 212	2019	compatibility profile (restricted)	paywalled	unverified
WHO Laboratory Biosafety Manual, fourth edition	WHO	4th edition	cite	open	unverified
WHO Global guidance framework for the responsible use of the life sciences	WHO	2022	cite	open	unverified
WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code	World Organisation for Animal Health	current	crosswalk	open	unverified
WHO global air quality guidelines	WHO	2021	adopt	open	unverified

Unverified entries rest on a secondary source for at least one field; the register says which.

02Canvas

Crosswalk evidence.

Canvas · crosswalk evidenceDesign, not a record

Fig.Register relations for the area and the evidence NS-14 requires before a claim is displayed. Design, not a record.

03Food and agriculture

Food and agriculture: 4 entries.

Standard	Body	Version	Relation	Access	Verified
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Technical Manual Version 3.1	IPC Global Partners (FAO-hosted Global Support Unit)	3.1 (August 2021)	crosswalk	free-to-read	verified
ISO 22000:2018 Food safety management systems	ISO/TC 34/SC 17	2018	compatibility profile (restricted)	paywalled	unverified
Codex Alimentarius international food standards	FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission	current	cite	open	unverified
International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs)	International Plant Protection Convention	current	crosswalk	open	unverified

Unverified entries rest on a secondary source for at least one field; the register says which.

04Humanitarian

Humanitarian: 10 entries.

Standard	Body	Version	Relation	Access	Verified
ISO 22395:2018 Security and resilience - Community resilience - Guidelines for supporting vulnerable persons in an emergency	ISO/TC 292	2018	cite	paywalled	unverified
ISO 22396:2020 Security and resilience - Community resilience - Guidelines for information exchange between organizations	ISO/TC 292	2020	cite	paywalled	unverified
The Sphere Handbook - Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response	Sphere Association	2018 (fourth edition); revision under way, date UNVERIFIED	cite	open	verified
Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS)	CHS Alliance, Groupe URD and Sphere	2024 edition (March 2024); 2014 edition with 2018 guidance notes remains in the Sphere Handbook	cite	open	verified
Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) 1.1	HXL Working Group (UN OCHA Centre for Humanitarian Data)	1.1 (final 30 April 2018)	adopt	open	verified
IATI Standard	International Aid Transparency Initiative	2.03 (February 2018)	crosswalk	open	verified
IASC Operational Guidance on Data Responsibility in Humanitarian Action	Inter-Agency Standing Committee (Data Responsibility Working Group)	revised edition April 2023 (first edition February 2021); two-year review cycle	cite	open	verified
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples	United Nations General Assembly	2007	cite	open	unverified
UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights	UN Human Rights Council	2011	cite	open	unverified
Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration	United Nations General Assembly	2018	cite	open	unverified

Unverified entries rest on a secondary source for at least one field; the register says which.

05Relations

What each relation means and what evidences it.

Relation	Meaning	Evidence
`cite`	The Nexus Standard refers to the external standard as context.	URL and identifier in the register.
`profile`	The Nexus Standard constrains or specialises an open external standard (STAC, DCAT, PROV-O, DataCite, CAP).	Conformance tests against the external standard's own validator where one exists.
`crosswalk`	Elements of the external standard map to Nexus elements (clauses, record fields).	A crosswalk table in the register entry; each row cites the external clause by number, never by text.
`adopt`	The ecosystem uses the external standard as-is for a function (ISO 3166, SPDX, ORCID, ROR).	Validation of values against the external scheme.
`extend`	Nexus adds machine-readable, real-time or provenance elements the external standard lacks.	The extension is a Nexus clause or field; the external standard is cited as the baseline.
`gap`	No external standard covers the concern; Nexus specifies it.	The gap statement in the landscape study.

06Learn and apply

Where Biological hazard is taught, worked on and run.

Risk Academy disciplines that teach Biological hazard, with their courses; the GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) subsites that carry those disciplines; and the Nexus Foundry systems the standards name. Mappings are proposed for review (Risk Academy standards map, 2026-10-17); a link says a page on the same subject exists, never an endorsement or a conformance statement; framework names in course titles are named and linked, never reproduced.

Risk Academy

Disciplines and courses

Public health emergencies and epidemics
Courses: RAN-305 Health Nexus (open); RAF-112 Public Health Emergencies and One Health (in preparation); RAT-230 Epidemic Intelligence and Surveillance (in preparation); RAS-412 Pandemics as Systemic Risk (in preparation)
Health systems and health care resilience
Courses: RAN-316 Health Care Risk and Hospital Resilience (in preparation)
One Health, zoonoses and antimicrobial resistance
Biotechnology, biosecurity and neurotechnology
Food systems and agriculture
Courses: RAN-304 Food Nexus (open); RAT-229 Food Security Analysis and the IPC (in preparation); RAN-313 Agricultural Risk Management (in preparation); RAN-324 Sahel Climate and Food Security Risk (in preparation)
Pollution and environmental health
Courses: RAF-120 Pollution and Environmental Health Risk (in preparation)
Work, skills and occupational safety
Nexus-Based Risk Management (NRM)
Courses: RAN-308 Cross-Stream Practicum (open); RAX-501 Nexus-Based Risk Management: the encompassing frame (in preparation); RAX-502 The entity-to-nexus bridge: ERM registers inside NRM (in preparation); RAX-503 Interdependency mapping and coupling analysis (in preparation)
Water security and hydrology
Courses: RAN-303 Water Nexus (open); RAN-321 Water and Wastewater Utility Risk (in preparation); RAN-331 Heat and Water Scarcity in Western Asia and Northern Africa (in preparation); RAN-335 Central Asia: Earthquakes, Mudflows and Shared Water (in preparation)
Water-energy-food-ecosystems nexus
Technological, industrial and Natech hazards
Courses: RAF-115 Technological and Industrial Hazards (in preparation); RAT-219 Process Safety: HAZOP, Bow-tie and LOPA (in preparation)
Transport, ports and logistics
Courses: RAN-315 Transport and Logistics Risk (in preparation)

Institutions

GCRI Canada, The Global Risks Forum and The Global Risks Alliance

Nexus Foundry

Systems it supports

07Questions

Questions and answers.

Does a crosswalk make a biological hazard artifact conformant to these standards?

No. A crosswalk is a mapping, not a conformance statement. A relation may be displayed only as clauses derived from the external standard and their current results, never as a compliance or certification statement unless the body entitled to decide has done so.

Why do some relations read compatibility profile (restricted)?

The standard is paywalled. Nexus Standards do not reproduce its text; a compatibility profile of it is built on simulated data and kept on restricted pages, and it is activated publicly only after an institutional arrangement with the issuing body is recorded (owner decision of 2026-10-16, counsel review pending).

Why are some entries unverified?

An unverified entry rests on a secondary source for at least one of name, body, version or year; NS14-R5 requires it to be shown as unverified.

Around Biological hazard.

Nexus Standards

Shape the standards for biological hazard.

Every standard here is proposed. Changes enter as proposals under NS-13; conformance is shown by attestations under NS-11; nothing on this site is a certification, an approval or a readiness statement.

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Nexus Standards documents CC BY 4.0 · tooling Apache-2.0 · counsel review pending (DEC-2026-10-16-NEXUS-STANDARDS-OPEN-LICENCE). External standards are named and linked under their own licences; a UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies, it never certifies. · Generated from the Nexus Standards corpus at commit 437ae044c5cb (2026-10-17); proposed and open.