OPS.18:10 - Rationale

Monitoring, acceptance, restoration and prevention regulate different moves. Selecting the evidence from the current decision preserves the meaning of a statistical limit, a product requirement, a service objective and a supported protective change.

The separation between containment, restored service and causal knowledge also supports proportionate action. A practitioner can act on sufficient operating evidence while obtaining the stronger result needed for prevention, wider use or a more consequential commitment.