skills/corrective-action-planning/SKILL.md

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name: corrective-action-planning
description: Convert substantiated incident causes and control gaps into prioritized corrective and preventive actions with owners, due dates, and effectiveness measures.
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# Corrective Action Planning

Develop actions that address supported causes rather than merely restating outcomes.

Map every action to a causal factor or control gap. Prefer elimination, substitution, engineered or system controls, and resilient process design over reminders, retraining, or discipline used alone. Include interim controls when durable changes take time.

For each action specify the intended risk reduction, accountable owner role, due date or dependency, resources, completion evidence, leading effectiveness measure, review date, and residual risk. Check whether the action could introduce new hazards, operational burden, or workarounds.

Distinguish correction, corrective action, preventive action, and broader improvement. Prioritize by risk reduction, urgency, feasibility, and dependency. Do not promise zero risk or claim effectiveness before verification. Output a cause-to-action matrix and call out causes with no adequate action or actions with no supported cause.