• Hidden failures expose the organization to serious consequences.
• A failure has an operational consequence if it affects production (i.e. output,
product quality, customer service or operating costs in addition to the direct
cost of repairs).
• A failure has a safety consequence if it results in hurting or killing somebody.
It has an environmental consequence if it breaches a corporate, regional,
national or international environmental standard.
• Non–operational consequence: evident failures that fall into this category
affect neither safety nor operations, so they involve only the direct cost of the
repair