A environment of multiple, repeating alarms - whether "Stall!" in a cockpit every 3 seconds, or a hospital room with multiple beeps, with only 8 of 1455 especially significant, sounds to me to be like being a programmer trying to fix a critical problem with a PHB manager hovering at one's shoulder, barking "Another server crashed" and "Have you fixed it yet?" and similar several times a minute.

Perhaps such environments could benefit from a button that silenced all current alarms for at least 30 seconds, leaving the operator a brief quiet time to focus, modulo new alarms.

Asking the annoying manager to go to some mildly distant place to find an appropriate manual or checklist binder (that may even exist!) may work well for some programmers and some managers.

For a more common example, spend a few minutes in the lobby of a busy or understaffed McDonalds and listen to the cacophony of beeps.