Use the following general principles when devising a checklist: • Good checklists are brief, precise, efficient, and easy to use even under difficult conditions. They do not try to spell out everything and they provide reminders of only the critical and most important steps. • Bad checklists are vague, imprecise, too long, hard to use, and try to spell out every single step. • Checklists should be confirmed: perform jobs/tasks from memory and experience, but then stop, run the checklist, and confirm that everything was done correctly. • Checklists should be reviewed: carry out tasks as they
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