Definition
A record of failures that occurred and were caught by a person before they reached anyone else. Each entry carries the near-miss condition, the person who caught it, the labor spent catching it, and whether the source condition was later fixed. It logs the part of the human subsidy spent catching failures, which would otherwise go unlogged.
An incident count that omits these rescues reports the number of times the institution was not lucky. It is the recording half of compensated performance: where that term names the condition, this names the ledger.
STD-06 §3.3 requires it as a safety-case artifact, and non-expropriation of resilience is why the entry has to carry the labor. A rescue costs the person who performs it, and an institution that reads the same rescue as evidence of a safe system has booked their compensation as its own performance.
A rescue that repeats against the same unfixed condition is the strongest signal the register holds. It is evidence about the condition rather than about the competence of whoever keeps catching it.
Hypothetical example
- A reconciliation defect produces no incidents for a year because nurses catch every mismatch before dispensing. The register shows 300 rescues against one unfixed interface and 4,000 hours of checking nobody rostered.