AAOM Handbook

or • Not more than 6 weeks (this is a typical value but can vary) from the date of Work Order approval/creation.

If work is best completed during a shutdown that will not occur within 6 weeks, the Required Date should be during the next appropriate shutdown.

For integrity management work the Required Date may be months or years away.

Impact

Impact 1 – Significant un-containable safety or environmental threat, or Significant un-recoverable production or service activity throughput or quality reduction

Un-containable means that there is no practical way to contain (use temporary measures such as the installation of barricades, diverting spillage into sumps, drawing from or building stockpiles, etc) exposure to a threat. Un-recoverable means that there is no alternate equipment, schedule time or operating rate etc that will allow catch up to schedule.

Impact 2 –

Containable safety or environmental threat, or Recoverable production or service activity throughput or quality reduction

Impact 3 – All other

Urgent Work

Urgency is driven by Required Date and the Impact of not completing work by that date.

Required Date

Impact

Today

Within 7 days

Beyond

Urgent – respond immediately

Urgent – respond before Required Date

Not Urgent – schedule before Required Date

1

Urgent – respond or contain before Required Date

Urgent – respond or contain immediately,

Not Urgent – schedule before Required Date

2

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