Criticality
Criticality is the quality, state, or degree of being of the highest importance. The importance or degree of criticality has been proposed to be based on the consequences of failure, i.e. consquences of failure are assigned a criticality factor.
Elements that may impact on criticality include:
- Safety
- Cost of Failure
- Complexity
- Severity of Duty
- Impact of Failure
- Impact on Environment
- Location
- Loss of Service
- No of Customers Serviced
- Site Function
- Public image impact
Social, environmental & economic factors may be considered.
Social may include
- Community disruption
- Health and safety
- Community disruption
- Litigation
Environmental factors that may need to be considered are
- natural waterways
- parks
- national parks
- recreational grounds
Economic
- business and commercial activities being disrupted
- costs to the community
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