FREE online courses on the Art Of
Effective Time Management - TIME SAVERS - STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURES AND
CHECKLISTS
Complex tasks can be broken into
a minutiae of detail, which become cumbersome to remember every time a task is
repeated. Here, detailed checklists not only list out each step one after the
other, providing relief to memory, but also ensure no step is missed out.
Standard operating procedures are similar conditioned responses to a variety of
anticipated situations (e.g. fire drill) so that in an actual event, no thought,
only action is required.
Such standardized
procedures/responses are time/casualty savers, and are extensively used, not
only in the forces, but in Business and Industry as well.
