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Stale SOPs cost more than you think
When incidents keep repeating, the binder is lying. Incident signals and review dates fix the loop.
An SOP that hasn’t been touched in 240 days isn’t “stable.” It’s unverified. Incidents keep repeating while the binder insists everything is fine.
Linking incidents to procedures flips the loop: three similar failures become a signal to rewrite, retrain, or retire a document. Review dates and acknowledgment campaigns make the update real across locations.
AurantOS treats staleness as an ops problem, not a content chore — because outdated knowledge is how restaurants pay twice for the same mistake.