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Priority Descriptors
These Priority Descriptors were developed by the Lessons Learned Process Improvement Team.
The examples are intended to help lesson creators assign priority codes to their lessons. These
are some, but not all possible categories of lessons. Writers should use their judgement and
extend these examples to situations as they arise.
Red/Urgent:
A lesson from an actual event with adverse consequences
Yellow/Caution:
A lesson from a potential event or condition
Blue/Information:
A fact or discovery of benefit to others
Green/Good Work
A practice promoting or resulting in a positive outcome; A Success story
Practice:
Table A-1 Priority Descriptors
GENERAL
RED/ URGENT
YELLOW/ CAUTION
BLUE/
GREEN/ GOOD
SUBJECT AREA
INFORMATION
WORK PRACTICE
Public Safety
Event related to
Potential event
Information to
Action, activity, or
site operation that
related to site
protect public
practice which
has affected
operation which
safety and health
improves public
public safety and
may have affected
including, but not
safety and health
health or
public safety and
limited to,
threatened public
health
cumulative
safety and health
findings from
trending
Worker Safety
Fatality, near
Conditions which
Information to
Action, activity, or
fatality, serious
resulted in:
protect worker
practice which
injury, or
- injury
health and safety
promotes:
permanent/ total
- temporary/ partial
including, but not
- safe work
disability
disability or
limited to,
practices or
- significant loss of
cumulative
- healthful work
work time or
findings from
practices
productivity
trending
Environmental
Unconfined
Condition which
Information to
Action, activity, or
Protection
hazardous
may have resulted
protect the
practice which:
release beyond
in an unconfined
environment
- prevents on or
the site boundary.
release to the
including:
off-site
Significant
environment or a
- measurable, but
environmental
unconfined on-
moderate on-site
minor, hazardous
degradation or
site hazardous
hazardous release
releases or
- will limit or
release requiring
- cumulative
reduce on or off-
cleanup
findings from
site releases to
trending
the environment
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