Day 8: Crew Changeover

Question 1

Identify

A set of actions/informational brief completed between off-going crew and on-coming crew

Answer 1

Crew changeover

Question 2

What is the purpose of crew changeover?

Answer 2

To allow continuous operations and standardization between operators to avoid repeated mistakes and to pass information

Question 3

Why is crew changeover important?

Answer 3

• Continuity; promotes smooth operations by ensuring all pertinent information is passed to oncoming crew for coordination with outside agencies, contractors, maintenance, customer, etc.
• If poor completed, directly contributes to negative impacts on mission/system

Question 4

What should the crew changeover accurately capture?

Answer 4

Events of last shift/prepare on-coming crew for actions to complete on their shift

Examples include:
* Any pertinent details that occurred over a shift
* What satellites the weapon system is pointed at
* Current taskings
* Future taskings
* Outside agency correspondence
* System outages/current system limitations