False Positives (was RE: TLDs as Anti-Theft Devices?)

["Edwards, Richard W" <richard.w.edwards@boeing.com>]

Brent brings up an interesting point, the need to consider the behavior of the people involved when establishing and maintaining monitoring procedures and alarm set points or action levels. Obviously this is but one component in a complex (and often intuitive) balancing of regulatory requirements, technological capabilities, financial and personnel constraints, and risk. I can think of a number of instances in which the most effective improvements we were able to make in our monitoring systems were in the elimination of sources of false positive readings.

Rick Edwards, Analyst 

The Boeing Company 

richard.w.edwards@boeing.com 



 



	-----Original Message-----

	From: Rogers Brent [mailto:Brent.Rogers@environment.nsw.gov.au] 

	Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 6:50 PM

	To: 'John_Sukosky@DOM.COM'; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

	Subject: RE: TLDs as Anti-Theft Devices?

	

	



	Interesting reading about these gadgets.  Even more interesting to me is 

	what happens when I set one of these off (I'd need all my fingers and toes 

	to count the times).  The store clerks have just sent me on my way, with an 

	exasperated look on their face that says "Not again".  This would seem to 

	suggest that somewhere in the process of activating the devices, 

	deactivating the devices at the register and actually clearing the door on 

	the way out results in enough false-positives that store employees usually 

	can't be bothered to check things out. 





	Brent Rogers 

	Sydney Australia