A preventive action is a change implemented to address a weakness in a management system that is not yet responsible for causing nonconforming product or service.
Apart from the review of the operational procedures, the preventive action might involve analysis of data, including trend and risk analyses and proficiency-testing results.
[1] Preventive actions can address technical requirements related to the product or service supplied or to the internal management system.
So, managers should prioritize some steps of preventive actions in order to anticipate these kind of issues, especially focusing more on: "Patterns of behavior" relates to the morale and motivation of people.
The effects of human behavior (such as victimization, bullying, harassment and discrimination) could affect confidence, weakening the relationships meant to lead to performance.
In this situation preventive actions should focus more on the nature and quality of the working environment, safety aspects and technology.
[3][4] Their number is vast, among them counting: Nowadays, due to fast changes in engineering, there is a large emphasis in the enhancement of safety and security regarding technology.
As safety and security issues can occur anytime, intentionally or not, more preventive strategies against loss or hacking are enhanced.
They approach different tactics in order to protect against attackers, creating barriers or lines of defense, through firewalls or encryption.
Focusing first on strategy rather than tactics[6] can be achieved by adopting a new system-theoretic causality model recently developed to provide a more powerful approach to engineering for safety.
As not all decisions made in an organisation are based on known rules, the analytical manager will examine in details the situation and anticipates potential issues that can occur.
[9] Thus, modelling and simulating play the roles of preventive actions, being applied earlier for the design of the process, where real factual data is not available.
Examples of minor problems that people usually do not take seriously into consideration are numerous, such as losing involuntary weight, lasting coughs, body changes and others aches and pains.
Once with noticing a disorder, people can take action by checking a specialist in order to avoid the situation getting worse.
The August 2019 clampdown in Jammu and Kashmir[14] is an example of preventive lockdown to eliminate the risk to the lives of civilians from the militants, violent protesters and stonepelters.