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      ]
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      "ACT.EVT"
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    "name": "failure",
    "purpose": "Let an agent analyse failures by type, cause and prevention using established methods, route dangerous failures to emergency help, and respond supportively when people feel they have failed.",
    "definition": "An event in which something does not accomplish its intended purpose, such as a machine malfunction, a structural or system failure, a business collapse or an unsuccessful attempt; in engineering, failures are analysed to find root causes and prevent recurrence.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Understanding and preventing things going wrong.",
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      "carry out root cause analysis",
      "apply methods such as FMEA",
      "find support after personal or business setbacks"
    ],
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    ],
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      "Incident reports",
      "Planned shutdowns are not failures"
    ],
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      "mechanical and structural failures",
      "system and software failures",
      "business failures and insolvency",
      "personal setbacks",
      "tyre blowouts and other sudden failures"
    ],
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      },
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      "IEC 60812 FMEA",
      "Incident reporting rules in regulated sectors",
      "Insolvency law"
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      "Blame instead of learning",
      "Distress after setbacks"
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    "out_of_scope": [],
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        "Put a failed system into its documented safe state when authorized."
      ],
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        "Hide, delay or understate a failure from the people affected or responsible.",
        "Restart a failed safety-critical system without checking why it failed.",
        "Blame a named person for a failure before an investigation.",
        "Falsify test results to avoid reporting a failure."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Declaring a failed system safe to return to service."
      ]
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      "considerations": [
        "Failures in infrastructure and medical devices can kill, so prompt honest reporting saves lives.",
        "Blame cultures make people hide failures instead of learning from them."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "People relying on the system",
        "Operators and maintainers",
        "Investigators"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the concept; the operator of a system answers for its failures.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
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    },
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      "id": "wiktionary-en",
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      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/failure",
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      {
        "id": "danger",
        "name": "Danger",
        "description": "Dangerous failures.",
        "rationale": "Safety comes first.",
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          {
            "id": "hazard",
            "name": "Hazard",
            "description": "Immediate danger.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "hazard-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is the failure dangerous now, such as a gas leak, electrical fault or structural collapse?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Should people move away and call emergency services or the utility?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "vehicle",
            "name": "Vehicle",
            "description": "Breakdowns.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "vehicle-finding",
                "name": "Vehicle",
                "description": "Vehicle failure.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Has a vehicle failed on a road, such as a tyre blowout?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How can the driver get to a safe place and call for help?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "analysis",
        "name": "Analysis",
        "description": "Understanding causes.",
        "rationale": "Learning prevents recurrence.",
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            "description": "Root cause analysis.",
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              {
                "id": "rootcause-finding",
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                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What was the direct cause, and what were the underlying causes?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which method, such as five whys or fault trees, fits?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "fmea",
            "name": "FMEA",
            "description": "Prevention.",
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              {
                "id": "fmea-finding",
                "name": "FMEA",
                "description": "FMEA.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which failure modes are likely, and how severe and detectable are they?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which controls reduce risk?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "organisations",
        "name": "Organisations",
        "description": "Business failure.",
        "rationale": "Help exists.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "business",
            "name": "Business",
            "description": "Insolvency.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "business-finding",
                "name": "Business",
                "description": "Business failure.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is a business facing insolvency?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Where can free business or insolvency advice be found?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "learning",
            "name": "Learning",
            "description": "Blameless reviews.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "learning-finding",
                "name": "Learning",
                "description": "Blameless reviews.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can a blameless post-incident review be run?",
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                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What should the report include?",
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                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "personal",
        "name": "Personal",
        "description": "Setbacks.",
        "rationale": "Support matters.",
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          {
            "id": "support",
            "name": "Support",
            "description": "Emotional support.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "support-finding",
                "name": "Support",
                "description": "Emotional support.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is the person very distressed or at risk after a setback?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which support service or crisis line should be offered?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "reframe",
            "name": "Reframe",
            "description": "Moving on.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "reframe-finding",
                "name": "Reframe",
                "description": "Moving on.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How can the setback be reviewed constructively?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What next steps are realistic?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should failure types be separate entries?",
    "How should incident databases be linked?",
    "How should personal setbacks be handled?"
  ],
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    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}