Assigning inspections

Important: This feature is available only in the feature channel. For more information, see What's new in the feature channel for Maximo Health, Safety and Environment.

Starting in Maximo Health, Safety and Environment 9.2, assign inspections to specific individuals or groups in applications that use inspections to help ensure that inspections are downloaded only to the assigned person's mobile devices.

The following applications support the inspection assignment process:
  • Access Permits
  • Audit and Surveys
  • Incidents
  • Operator Rounds in Operator Log
  • Risk Assessments
  • Management of Change (MOC)

Before you begin

Before you assign inspections, verify that the inspection forms for use are created and activated in the Inspection Forms application.

About this task

When you assign inspections to specific owners or owner groups, only the assigned person can see and conduct the inspections on their mobile devices, which prevents unnecessary downloads of unassigned inspections to all mobile devices.

You can assign inspections to a person or to person groups. You can also specify reviewers for reviewing the completed inspections.

Procedure

  1. From the navigation menu, open an application that supports inspections.
  2. Create a record or open an existing record.
    In Operator log application, for the Operator Rounds section, additionally specify the assets or locations for inspection in Asset or Location fields.
  3. In the Inspection form subsection, specify the inspection form that you want to use.
    You can use the Select Value or Go to actions from the detail menu to select or navigate to a record.
    The Inspection form number and description is populated. Also, the Current form revision field is updated.
  4. In the Due Date field, specify when the inspection must be completed.
  5. In the Inspector field, specify a person for inspection.
  6. Click the Inspection result action to create an inspection result record.
    The system creates an inspection result record and populates it with information from the operator round row.
  7. Assign the inspection to persons by completing one of the following actions:
    • To assign an owner, specify the person's name in the Inspection Owner field and keep the Inspection Owner Group field blank.
    • To assign to a group, specify the person group in the Inspection Owner Group field and keep the Inspection Owner field blank.
    When you assign to a group, all members of the group can see the inspection on their mobile devices.
  8. Optional: Assign a reviewer by completing one of the following actions:
    • To assign a reviewer, specify the person's name in the Reviewer field and keep the Reviewer Group field blank.
    • To assign a reviewer group, specify the person group in the Reviewer Group field and keep the Reviewer field blank.
    Assigned reviewers can see their assigned reviews in the Inspections application by using the For Review filter.
  9. Repeat steps for other records that require an inspection.
  10. Save the record.

Results

The assigned person can open the Inspections application on their mobile devices and refresh the data to see the assigned inspections. Only the assigned person can see the inspections on their mobile devices.

You can view all inspections that are associated with the record by clicking the Related Records tab and viewing the Related Inspections section.

What to do next

After the assigned person conducts the inspections, you can review the inspection results from the Related Inspections section or by opening the inspection records in the Inspections application.