Checklist
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A Checklist is a list document with tasks to be completed.
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- See: Schedule, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP), Runbook Document.
References
2022
- (Wiktionary, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/checklist#Noun
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/checklist Retrieved:2022-10-24.
- A checklist is a type of job aid used to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention. It helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a task. A basic example is the “to do list". A more advanced checklist would be a schedule, which lays out tasks to be done according to time of day or other factors. A primary task in checklist is documentation of the task and auditing against the documentation.
Use of a written checklist can reduce any tendency to avoid, omit or neglect important steps in any task.[1]
- A checklist is a type of job aid used to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention. It helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a task. A basic example is the “to do list". A more advanced checklist would be a schedule, which lays out tasks to be done according to time of day or other factors. A primary task in checklist is documentation of the task and auditing against the documentation.
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/checklist#Applications Retrieved:2022-10-24.
- Pre-flight checklists aid in aviation safety to ensure that critical items are not overlooked. [2]
- Used in quality assurance of software engineering, to check process compliance, code standardization and error prevention, and others.
- Often used in industry in operations procedures
- In civil litigation to deal with the complexity of discovery and motions practice. An example is the open-source litigation checklist.
- Can aid in mitigating claims of negligence in public liability claims by providing evidence of a risk management system being in place
- Used by some investors as a critical part of their investment process
- An ornithological checklist (Category:Ornithological checklists), a list of birds with standardized names that helps ornithologists communicate with the public without the use of scientific names in Latin* A popular tool for tracking sports card collections. Randomly inserted in packs, checklist cards provide information on the contents of sports card set.
- The creation of emergency survival kits.
- In professional diving, checklists are used in the preparation of equipment for a dive, and to ensure that the diver and life support systems are fully prepared before they enter the water. To a lesser extent, checklists are used by a minority of recreational divers, and by a larger proportion of technical divers during pre-dive checks. Studies have shown checklists to be effective at reducing the number of errors and consequent incidents.
- ↑ VRanapurwala, Shabbar Ismailbhai (2014). Prevention of scuba diving mishaps using a predive checklist:A cluster randomized trial (PDF). PhD dissertation (Report). University of North Carolina.
- ↑ Higgins, W. Y., and D. J. Boorman. "An analysis of the effectiveness of checklists when combined with other processes, methods and tools to reduce risk in high hazard activities." Boeing Tech J (2016).