Maintaining people information
You can record and maintain personal information about individuals. You create a person record for any individual who might display on another record. Examples of person records are the supervisor on a labor record or the ship to contact person on a purchasing record.
In the People application, you can do the following activities:
- Specify the type of technical authority that is held by a person.
- Specify the level of financial authority that is held by a person.
- Specify whether a person is an isolation specialist. If the person is an isolation specialist, specify the type of isolation that the person can handle, such as high-voltage electrical isolation.
- Associate a personal certification with a person.
- Authorize a person to do the following activities:
- Approve solutions.
- Approve root cause failure analysis.
- Review, approve, and authorize management of change processes.
- Review and approve permits.
- Review and approve certifications.
- Serve as an area authority, an issuing authority, an isolation authority, or a performing authority.
- Conduct gas tests and record gas test results.
- Control who can enter confined spaces.
- Approve audits.
- Review and approve risk assessments.
- Do site checks that are associated with permits to work.
- Approve analyses of the human factors that are identified during investigations.
- Manage training courses for each person.
- Specify whether a certificate was awarded, and if a certificate was awarded, specify the date of certification, and for how long it is valid.
- Specify the certification that is held by the person.