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Incident priority triage flowchart

An incident triage flowchart gives an operations team a shared way to make the first priority decision. This example begins with safety, because an immediate safety risk needs a different response from an ordinary service problem. It then separates a critical service outage from incidents with a workaround. Each route ends by recording the incident and the next action, so the decision is visible to the person taking over. The labels are deliberately generic: teams should replace Priority 1, Priority 2, and Priority 3 with their own definitions, escalation contacts, and service-level commitments. The same structure can support IT operations, facilities, or customer support incident handling.

Tipo FluxogramaNorma Sugiyama layered DAG + orthogonal routingMecanismo schematex-flowchartAtualizado 24/09/2026
Incident priority triage
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A solicitação

“Create an incident priority triage flowchart: when an incident is reported, escalate to emergency response for an immediate safety risk; otherwise assign Priority 1 and page the incident lead if a critical service is unavailable; otherwise assign Priority 2 and a response owner if no workaround is available; otherwise assign Priority 3 and schedule resolution. Document the incident and next action for every path.”

Depois, tenteAdd a customer-notification step for Priority 1.Change Priority 3 to a next-business-day response.
O que há neste desenho

Entenda as decisões por trás dele.

01Safety first

Route immediate safety risks to the emergency response path.

02Service impact

Treat an unavailable critical service as the highest operational priority.

03Workaround

Use availability of a workaround to distinguish Priority 2 from Priority 3.

04Record

Document the decision and the next action for every incident.

Use this for internal operational incident triage and adapt the priority definitions to the team's own policy.

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Dúvidas comuns

Why check safety before service impact?

An immediate safety risk needs an emergency response path and should not wait for an ordinary priority assessment.

What does a workaround change?

A workable temporary alternative can reduce the immediate impact and help distinguish a Priority 2 incident from a scheduled Priority 3 resolution.

Should every team use these priority labels?

No. Teams should adapt the labels, escalation paths, and definitions to their documented incident-management policy.