What are critical violations?

Critical violations indicate a high severity level than non-critical violations. Each jurisdiction has nomenclature around the severity of a health inspection violation that Hazel maps to a binary critical/non-critical designation. Jurisdictions with two levels of severity are more easily converted. Jurisdictions with three levels such as Priority/Priority Foundation/ Core will have only Priority be considered critical. The few jurisdictions with many number of different severities are treated on a case-by-case basis.