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Setting up Work Delay Reasons

You can define the common reasons that work is delayed on your site. Users will select these reasons when they are recording work delay time on timecards, equipment failures, or downtime incidents.

APM comes with some work delay reasons already defined. You can edit the existing work delay reasons, or add new ones that are relevant to your organization. This topic explains how to create new work delay reasons.

To Set up Work Delay Reasons

1.	From the Site window, select the Administration menu and Personnel Management Settings. The Personnel Management Settings dialog appears.

2.	Select the Delays tab. This tab shows a list of the current work delay reasons.

3.	Click New. The Reason for Work and Downtime Delays dialog appears.

4.	Enter the following settings:

Setting Name

Description

Reason

The description of a common reason that work is delayed on your site. Work delay reasons can be up to 50 characters long.

Usage

When this work delay reason will be available to be used: • Work delays, failures and downtime: This reason will be available to users reporting work delays, equipment failures, or downtime incidents. • Work delays and failures only: This reason will only be available to users reporting work delays or equipment failures. • Downtime incidents only: This reason will only be available to users reporting downtime incidents.

Responsibility

Select whether this reason is the responsibility of maintenance or operations. The system uses this setting to sort lists of downtime incidents, failures, and work delays.

5.

Click OK.

6.	Repeat steps 3 to 5 to enter all of your work delay reasons.