SOP · ENGINEERING
GOVERNOR Alarm Triage & Escalation
ActiveEngineeringRev C
Purpose
To govern how alarms raised by GOVERNOR — the facility monitoring system — are triaged, cross-validated, and escalated, so that critical containment and life-safety failures are surfaced first while sensor noise never triggers needless response. The procedure guarantees that a stuck probe is never mistaken for calm, that critical alarms page on-call immediately, and that GOVERNOR stages findings for human decision without ever acting autonomously on containment.
Scope
All GOVERNOR-generated alarms across facility monitoring.
In scope:
- Alarm acquisition and severity classification
- Cross-validation against neighboring sensors
- Critical-alarm paging and escalation
- Staging for human triage
Out of scope:
- Physical response to a containment breach, which follows the relevant Containment-Security SOP
- Emergency drill conduct, which follows SOP Crisis Drill Conduct & After-Action
Definitions
Critical Alarm
A containment-pressure or life-safety failure paged to on-call immediately, ahead of all other alarms.
Stale Sensor
A probe returning an unchanging value, treated as a failure until proven otherwise.
Cross-Validation
Confirming a flagged reading against neighboring sensors before raising it.
Staging
Placing a finding before a human for decision; GOVERNOR never acts autonomously on containment.
Responsibilities
Engineering Lead (Owner)
Owns the alarm logic; tunes thresholds and reviews staged findings.
On-Call Engineer
Responds to paged critical alarms and works staged findings into the issue register.
Containment-Security Lead
Confirms which alarm classes constitute containment-critical events.
GOVERNOR
Acquires alarms, classifies severity, cross-validates, pages on critical, and stages — never auto-acts on containment.
Procedure
Acquisition
- Acquire every alarm from the facility sensor mesh as it is raised.
- Classify each alarm by severity: Critical, High, or Routine.
- Identify stale or stuck sensors and treat them as failures until proven otherwise.
Validation
- Cross-validate each flagged reading against neighboring sensors before raising it.
- Surface containment-pressure and life-safety failures ahead of all other alarms.
- Suppress confirmed transient noise but log every suppression.
Escalation
- Page on-call immediately for any Critical-severity alarm.
- Stage all findings to the issue register for human triage.
- Never act autonomously on containment — staging and paging only.
PPE & Controls
No field PPE; control-room procedureSecure monitoring-console credentialsOn-call paging deviceUninterruptible power for the monitoring console
Records Generated
- Daily alarm-triage report with severities (retained 2 years)
- Cross-validation results per alarm
- Critical-page event log
- Suppression log with justification
References
- SOP: Hostile Technique Intercept & Quarantine
- SOP: Facility Containment-Security Zoning & Entry
- SOP: Crisis Drill Conduct & After-Action
- THE RESET Sensor Mesh Calibration Standard
Revision History
| Rev | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| A | 2089-07-14 | Initial issue; severity classification and critical paging established. |
| B | 2090-05-09 | Added stale-sensor logic and neighbor cross-validation. |
| C | 2091-02-20 | Formalized no-autonomous-action rule and suppression logging. |