Engineered Failure
Engineered Failure : In a system under extreme stress, the identification and selection of priority activities that should be preserved, while allowing less critical services to degrade. This management strategy is designed to avoid catastrophic or random failure of emergency response systems when system capacity or capability is exceeded. The guiding principle is the preservation of the functions most important to achieving organizational goals. It may also be referred to as "engineered system failure" or "managed degradation of incident response"