Work Request and Priority Guidelines
Priority Example of Failure or Incident Maximal time
in backlog
Is the job necessary to do? Yes No On Hold
Immediate safety risk Immediately.
1 Immediate risk of environmental damage
Immediate risk of quality losses.
Critical equipment down
Will break other
less important
ongoing work.
Critical equipment is running at reduced speed 1 day - 1 week
2 Critical equipment is running in manual mode
Manageable safety risk
PM activity
Mandatory inspections
Critical equipment running on spare equipment 1 week – 1 month
3 Failures that need correction
Spare equipment out of function
Leaks
Improvement work - expense. > 1 month
4 Improvement work - capital