Overview
Criticality settings in Mobaro directly influence whether a location is considered Ready for Operation (green) or Not Ready (red), helping your team maintain strict adherence to operational safety and compliance standards. By clearly defining the urgency of checklist completion, you ensure crucial operational and safety tasks are completed before impacting your daily operations.
Properly configuring these settings is essential to preventing operational downtime, minimizing safety risks, and enhancing regulatory compliance.
Why Criticality Settings Matter
Criticality settings categorize tasks based on their importance to operational safety and efficiency. Schedules assigned with criticality enabled directly affect whether a location is marked as Ready for Operation in Mobaro. Misconfigured settings could result in operational delays, safety hazards, or compliance issues.
Specifically, proper Criticality configuration helps your team to:
Prioritize checklists clearly, ensuring urgent and essential checks are completed first.
Ensure accurate reporting of a location’s operational readiness status.
Trigger timely alerts and notifications for critical checks, improving response times and safety outcomes.
Maintain compliance by consistently performing required safety and operational procedures.
Criticality Setting: Always
When a checklist with an Always criticality setting becomes active, the associated location is immediately marked as Not Ready (red) until completion. This ensures mandatory inspections and critical operational checks are never overlooked.
How "Always" Works:
The location automatically changes to red (Not Ready) as soon as the scheduled checklist becomes active.
The location remains red until all checklists marked as Always are completed and successfully submitted.
Once completed, assuming no other critical checks remain pending, the location status returns to green (Ready).
Best suited for:
Daily safety or operational checklists required prior to opening (e.g., daily equipment inspections, pre-opening safety checks).
Criticality Setting: When overdue
The When overdue setting allows the location to remain operationally Ready (green) through the initial scheduled checklist duration and an additional configured grace period. The location only transitions to Not Ready (red) if the grace period expires without checklist completion.
How "When overdue" Works:
Enable the Allow Grace Period within your schedule’s configuration.
After the initial scheduled time passes, the location remains green throughout the grace period.
The location becomes red only after the grace period ends without the checklist being submitted.
Best suited for:
Checklists that permit limited delays without immediate safety risks (e.g., tasks that are essential but can briefly wait for completion, like secondary equipment checks).
Criticality Setting: When missing
With the When missing criticality, your location status remains operationally Ready (green) for the entire scheduled checklist period. Only if the checklist has not been completed by the scheduled deadline does the location status change to Not Ready (red).
How "When missing" Works:
The location stays green during the active checklist schedule.
Upon the schedule’s expiration, if the checklist remains incomplete, the location immediately switches to red.
Clearly signals tasks overdue and non-compliant status upon deadline expiration.
Best suited for:
Weekly, monthly, or annual inspections or tasks which must be performed regularly but not necessarily immediately upon becoming active (e.g., long-term maintenance inspections, periodic audits).
If a schedule is configured with Ignore Missing Results enabled and Criticality set to "When Missing", the location’s operational status will remain unaffected—even if the checklist is not completed. This means the location will not turn red, regardless of a missing result.
Criticality Settings Quick Comparison
Criticality | When Location Turns Red | Ideal Use Case |
Always | Immediately upon checklist activation until completion | Essential daily or operational tasks |
When overdue | After a defined grace period if incomplete | Tasks with allowable delay periods |
When missing | After scheduled end date if checklist is missing | Regularly scheduled tasks requiring periodic compliance |
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Can I adjust criticality settings once applied?
A: Yes, criticality settings can be adjusted at any time. Changes take immediate effect and apply to all future schedules.
Q: What happens if an "Always" critical checklist isn't completed?
A: Your location will remain Not Ready (red) and operationally restricted until that checklist is fully completed and submitted or the related missing result is mitigated.