Corrective Action Program Best Practice 23 – Designate Workarounds, Burdens, and Deficiencies Before They Hide in Your Backlog

Your condition report backlog has four hundred open items. Somewhere in that list is a valve packing leak that’s purely cosmetic, a temporary jumper that’s been “temporary” for eight months, a control room indicator that reads two degrees high, and a procedure step operators quietly skip every shift because it doesn’t actually work as written. On paper, all four look the same: one line in a spreadsheet, one priority code, one owner. In practice, they are not remotely the same problem, and treating them as if they were is how the wrong one gets missed.

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Nathan Ives is President and CEO of StrategyDriven, and serves as an executive at a nuclear and energy AI software company, where his role has grown to encompass COO-level functions and AI solution design. A former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer and NRC-licensed Senior Reactor Operator, he brings over 30 years of experience spanning nuclear operations, Big 4 consulting, and enterprise leadership across nine countries. He holds an MBA from Kennesaw State University and a B.S. in Physics from the U.S. Naval Academy, and serves as Executive Director and Board Member of the PanAmerican College Fund.

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