Health and Safety Workspace

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Health and Safety Workspace

    The Health and Safety Workspace is designed to streamline the management of safety incidents and observations for safety managers and agents. It allows users to respond to incidents, access detailed information, and implement recommendations for resolution in a centralized location.

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    Workspace Users

    The Health and Safety Workspace is tailored for various roles, each with specific responsibilities:

    • Safety Manager: Tracks safety frequency rates and assigns tasks.
    • Safety Agent: Manages incidents, observations, and conducts investigations.
    • Safety Operations Manager: Reports safety incidents and observations via the operations landing page.
    • Safety Compliance Manager: Oversees the establishment list and generates reports like OSHA forms.
    • Executive: Accesses safety metrics through the executive landing page.
    • Application Admin: Configures the workspace according to business needs.

    Accessing the Workspace

    To access the Health and Safety Workspace, navigate to All > Health and Safety > Health and Safety Workspace, which opens in a new browser tab.

    Landing Page

    The landing page provides an overview of safety metrics, incidents, and observations relevant to the user's role. Widgets on the page allow users to monitor status, prioritize tasks, and navigate responsibilities efficiently.

    List View

    The lists pane offers quick access to categorized incidents, observations, and actions, with displayed content tailored to the user's role.

    Safety Incidents and Observations

    Users can utilize the incident playbook and observations form to review and manage assigned safety incidents and observations effectively. Safety agents can investigate, triage, and resolve these matters directly within the workspace.

    The Health and Safety Workspace provides a single location for safety managers and agents to process safety incidents and observations. Agents can use it to respond to incidents, view the full context of an incident, and provide relevant recommendations and actions to resolve them.

    Workspace users

    The following users can use the Health and Safety Workspace. The workspace is personalized for different roles.
    Table 1. Workspace users
    User Description
    Safety manager Keeps track of safety frequency rates and assigns safety tasks to safety agents.
    Safety agent Works on incidents, observations, corrective and preventive actions, and conducts investigations.
    Safety operations manager Accesses Health and Safety operations landing page to report safety incidents and observations.
    Safety compliance manager Manages the establishments list and the generation of reports such as OSHA forms.
    Executive Views the Health and Safety executive landing page to gain insight into company's safety metrics.
    Application admin Configures the workspace as per business requirements.

    Accessing the workspace

    To open the workspace, navigate to All > Health and Safety > Health and Safety Workspace.

    The Health and Safety Workspace opens in a new tab of the browser window.

    Landing page

    On the workspace landing page, get a quick overview of the safety metrics and incidents and observations that you and your team are working on. You can monitor the status and drill down into each component to see the list behind the score. The widgets also help you and your team to monitor your workload, focus on high-priority items, and easily navigate across your responsibilities.

    Note:
    The widgets and the data that are displayed in the widgets depend on your role.
    The following is an example of the workspace landing page for the Health and Safety Incident Management application.
    Figure 1. Example of the landing page for Health and Safety Workspace
    The landing page in workspace for health and safety incident management.

    List view

    In the lists pane, you can quickly access incidents, observations, and actions by using the filtered lists under different categories. The lists that are displayed depend on your role.

    The following is an example of the workspace list view for the Health and Safety Incident Management application.
    Figure 2. Example of the list view in the Health and Safety Workspace
    The list view in health and safety workspace.

    Safety Incidents and Observations

    In the workspace, using the incident playbook and observations form, you can review and work on your safety incidents and observations respectively. As a safety agent, you can investigate, triage, and resolve incidents and observations that are assigned to you.

    The following is an example of an incident playbook in the Health and Safety Incident Management application.
    Figure 3. Example of a safety incident playbook in the workspace
    The form view of a safety incident on Health and Safety workspace.