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Damage Categorisation — Red, Amber, Green Explained

Every fault a SARI inspector finds is rated Green, Amber or Red. The colour drives the timescale and the legal consequence of doing nothing.

GREEN — Safe

Damage within EN 15635 tolerance. Logged for future reference, no immediate action.

AMBER — Hazardous

Damage exceeds tolerance. Component must be unloaded and replaced or repaired within 4 weeks. If untouched at 4 weeks the rating automatically escalates to RED.

RED — Very Serious Risk

Bay must be offloaded immediately, isolated and not re-loaded until the damaged component is replaced. Continuing to use a RED-rated bay is a direct breach of PUWER and HSWA.

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