ME.3:4.4 - Appraise a Disputed Criterion

Use C.11.DUA §4.3 when the practitioner needs to decide whether a Method criterion or protective requirement is justified. Recover the person, system or receiving result it protects, the particular failure or exposure, the governed activity or quantity, the evidence and threshold basis, and the protection the requirement adds under these conditions. Compare that contribution with the burden, delay and displaced protective work. Use the relevant domain judgement and measurement or causal analysis where the question needs them; a label such as safety does not supply that basis.

Return supported retention, tightening, revision, replacement or removal only among meaningful alternatives. Keep the requirement’s current force and the authority and time needed to change it explicit where they determine the feasible continuation. A recommendation can be complete while amendment remains unavailable. Continue under the current allowed options until the governing authority or agreement changes the requirement; if none meets the receiving need within the window, return that limitation. A later amendment does not restore an opportunity already lost.

Carry the useful reason and limit in the same criteria or recommendation result. Finish when it answers the present question at a supported strength. Choose a further study only when its obtainable result could change that answer enough to warrant the full burden.