Platform
It knows what it may do
alone, and what needs
your signature.
Authority is defined before the worker starts, not apologised for afterwards. Anything that carries consequence is held until a named person signs.
01 / Three tiers
Every worker holds three kinds of permission and no others.
It does this alone
Routine work, inside limits agreed in advance with the people who carry the risk.
It proposes this. A person signs.
Anything carrying consequence stops and waits. It goes to a named person, and it does not move until that person approves it.
Approved by
Time
It may never touch this
Set out at the start. The worker cannot exceed the authority it was given.
02 / The record
Every action, and the name
of whoever approved it.
Trust is not a feeling. It is a record. Four things are written for everything a worker does, and none of them can be quietly edited afterwards.
What happened
The action itself, in full.
Who authorised it
By name, not by role.
When
To the minute.
What it could not touch
The limits in force at the time.
The test
A director can ask what a worker
did last Tuesday, who approved it,
and what it was not allowed to
touch, and get an answer.