Corrective action plan
A manufacturer's or operator's formal, documented response to a confirmed failure, specifying the changes made to prevent recurrence. AECL's response to the Therac-25 findings, restoring hardware interlocks and redesigning the fault-handling interface, is an example; a documented corrective action plan is itself evidence worth checking when evaluating whether a failure's lesson was actually acted on. A plan existing is not the same as a plan working: the rigorous follow-up question is whether the change was actually implemented as described, whether it introduced any new, unintended gap of its own, and whether the incident rate for that failure mode actually dropped afterward, not just whether a document was produced and filed.
Defined in 2 GAGE programs, which carry 2 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A manufacturer's or operator's formal, documented response to a confirmed failure, specifying the changes made to prevent recurrence. AECL's response to the Therac-25 findings, restoring hardware interlocks and redesigning the fault-handling interface, is an example; a documented corrective action plan is itself evidence worth checking when evaluating whether a failure's lesson was actually acted on. A plan existing is not the same as a plan working: the rigorous follow-up question is whether the change was actually implemented as described, whether it introduced any new, unintended gap of its own, and whether the incident rate for that failure mode actually dropped afterward, not just whether a document was produced and filed.
A formal remediation program, commonly used by U.S. health privacy regulators including HHS OCR, requiring an organization to build specified safeguards under supervision after a documented compliance failure, functioning as the healthcare-sector counterpart to a banking consent order.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- The budget defense: winning quality and governance funding from a board that wants features · The Money of Data, Certified AI Data Governance Professional (CADGP)
- Famous robot and automation failures and what really caused them · Failure Analysis, Learning From How Robots Break, Engineering Judgment and Professional Formation
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Corrective action plan starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Establishes ownership, stewardship, councils, decision rights and issue workflows so data has a named owner and a defined meaning.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- Chief Data Officer, data leadership editionneeds it at depth
- Data Governance Leadneeds it at depth · 2 open postings this week
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: DAMA-DMBOK; ISO/IEC 42001 data controls.
One interview question about it
Set up data stewardship for an organization whose models train on its own data. Who owns what, and how do decisions get made?
Asked of candidates for data governance operating model and stewardship. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
If you come from another field
Some backgrounds already carry this competency, and the readiness check gives credit for it.
- Data analysis, stewardship and business intelligence carries it as a claim to back up: Stewardship and glossary ownership are usually in the role.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.