AAOM Handbook

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AI.20 Practical Control Action Identified? Context

The potential control actions identified during brainstorming have been ranked from the most to least practical. This was done in the hope of reducing the validation workload by examining the most practical actions first. A method of measuring, testing or modelling the impact of each control action was devised and executed to provide the data necessary to decide whether a practical control action(s) had been identified. In the event that a practical control action cannot be validated from amongst those that were ranked most highly, the team need to continue the validation process working further down the list of ranked potential actions. If all of the identified potential actions have been tested with data, and no practical control action has been identified, the team needs to revisit the brainstorming process to identify more potential control actions. This task is to decide whether a practical control actions been identified. Purpose To decide if there is a practical control action to implement. Quantity One decision on each potential control action modelled/tested. Quality If one, or a few, potential control actions account for greater than 50% of the expected benefit identified for the process issue, then these should be identified as practical control actions. Resources The identification of the practical control actions is the accountability of the Control Action Development Leader. Time As soon as practical after collection of the validation data.

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