Corrective Actions
Every problem gets an owner and a due date, and stays visible until it is closed.
The most common failure in safety management is that problems are reported and never fixed. A corrective action is a specific task to fix a safety problem, given to a named person with a due date and tracked until it is closed. Nothing stays open indefinitely without someone being accountable for it.
What it does
What Corrective Actions covers
Assign an owner and a due date
Describe what needs doing, choose who is responsible, and set the date by which it must be done.
Sourced from real records
Actions can come from a hazard, an incident or a site inspection.
Open, In Progress, Closed
Each action moves through three statuses, and closing an action is recorded for audit.
Overdue view
Anything past its due date appears in the Overdue view. Overdue is worked out from the due date every time it is viewed, so it is never out of date.
Field Worker view
Field Workers see the actions assigned to them in My Corrective Actions in the app, and receive a notification when one is assigned.
Actions from observations
Actions raised from safety observations, once safety observations are available.
How it works
From first entry to closed record
The steps below follow the module from start to finish, in the order most companies use it.
- 1
Identify the source
Start from the hazard, incident or inspection that needs fixing.
- 2
Create the action
Describe the fix, choose the responsible person and set the due date.
- 3
Track progress
Follow the action as it moves from Open to In Progress.
- 4
Check Overdue
Review the Overdue view regularly and follow up on late actions.
- 5
Close
Close the action once the fix is confirmed. The closure is recorded for audit.
Who uses it
What each role does with it
Field Worker
Sees and works on the actions assigned to them in the app.
Supervisor
Creates, assigns, tracks and closes actions, and monitors the Overdue view.
Company Admin
Creates, assigns, tracks and closes actions, and monitors the Overdue view.
HSE Manager
Views all actions and the Overdue view, read-only.
Role access is enforced on the server. HSE Managers are read-only everywhere on the dashboard, and a role only sees what it is allowed to.
Safeguards
Built-in limits and safeguards
- Closing a corrective action is recorded in the audit log.
- Overdue status is derived from the due date, not stored as a flag that can go stale.
- A worker is notified by push and in their inbox when an action is assigned to them.
- Actions are never created automatically. A person creates each one.
Scope
What it does not do
Stated plainly, so nothing is bought on a misunderstanding. Items marked as coming soon are on the roadmap, not in the product today.
- Safetify does not raise corrective actions automatically from hazards, exceedances or risk alerts. A person creates each one.
- Actions raised from safety observations depend on the observations feature, which is coming soon.
Related
Related modules
Want to see Corrective Actions for your company?
Write to us with your sites, your crew size and what you need to track. We will explain how Corrective Actions fits your operations, and what is and is not in the product today.