Comment by tcmart14

This is the real problem. In a perfect world, everyone pays attention to alarms with the same attentiveness all the time. But it just isn't reality. Before going into building software, I was in the Navy and after that did work as a chemical system tech. In the Navy, I worked in JP-5 pumprooms. In both environments we had alarms and in both environments we learned what were nuisance alarms and what weren't, or just took alarms with a grain of salt and there for never paid proper attention to them.

That is always the issue with alarms. You have a fine line to walk. Too many alarms and people become complacent and learn to ignore alarms. Too few alarms and you don't draw the attention that is needed.