Mecc,
The answer to this should be in the Ops Manual as well (I cant think of an AFM which gets to this level of detail), but if it isn't, or you haven't got one, then I would suggest you and your colleagues get together and discuss working round answer A. Other answers may apply to non-normals, but as an ex-ATCO, I'd be very unhappy if you told me to stand by simply because you're running some normal checks (unless they're going wrong).
Slasher and I are simply never going to get on. He doesn't fly with us, but he does remind me of some folk whom we binned at interview...