Concepts

Settings

Setting up Safety Management Options

Safety management options include the value used to filter override incidents on standard table configurations and the numbering format for safety provisions and override incidents.

Numbering settings create the alpha-numeric identifiers that distinguish one object from another. In each site, every safety object must have a unique identifier. If appropriate, you can provide a site-specific prefix or suffix for a type of object to ensure that the numbers are unique throughout the enterprise.

To Set up Safety Options

1.	On the site’s Safety Management view, select the Settings tab, and the Safety Management Settings node in the tree.

Tip: You can also select the site’s Administration menu and then Safety Management. The Safety Management Settings dialog appears.

2.	Select the Options tab.

3.	Click Edit to modify the site settings. The Edit button is replaced by the Save button.

4.	The filtering horizon is used on standard table configurations and summary charts to limit the number of override incidents included. For example, a horizon of six months ensures that tables show incidents that have occurred in the last six months. Change the value and unit of measure as required.

5.	For each of safety provision and override incident numbers, enter the format to use for numbering:

Format to use

The format to use for the document numbers. The format determines the number of digits in the document number and whether or not the number should be padded with zeros. Document numbers must be unique for objects within each site. The maximum number of digits in a document number is eight. For example, a format that says “%.6u” would generate six-digit numbers padded with zeros: 001234. • % indicates the start of the number definition. • .6 indicates that the numbers should have six digits. Numbers with less than six digits will be padded with zeros. • u indicates that the number is an unsigned integer (that is, it cannot be a negative number). You can also add a site-specific prefix or suffix to ensure that document numbers are unique across the whole enterprise. Enter a prefix before the % sign. Enter a suffix at the end of the format. For example, you could add the letter “R” as a prefix to refer to the site that owns the object, such as R-001234. In this example, you would enter a format that says: R-%.6u, where R- is the prefix.

The Next number boxes show the numbers that will be assigned to the next new object (without the padding).

6.	When you are finished, click Save.