Applications
- pre-flight checklists aid in aviation safety to ensure that critical items are not forgotten
- use in medical practice to ensure that clinical practice guidelines are followed. An example is the Surgical Safety Checklist developed for the World Health Organization by Dr. Atul Gawande.
- used in quality assurance of software engineering, to check process compliance, code standardization and error prevention, and others.
- often used in industry in operations procedures.
- used in civil litigation to deal with the complexity of discovery and motions practice. An example is the open-source litigation checklist.
- used by some investors as a critical part of their investment process
- can aid in mitigating claims of negligence in public liability claims by providing evidence of a risk management system being in place.
- an ornithological checklist, a list of birds with standardized names that helps ornithologists communicate with the public without the use of scientific names in Latin.
- a popular tool for tracking sports card collections. Randomly inserted in packs, checklist cards provide information on the contents of sports card set.
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