How to add new Audit and Hazard Areas using the Audit Setup?

The Audit/Hazard areas are used to group and classify the hazards and share the same setup page, which can be used to add and manage the Areas.

The page to manage Audit and Hazard Areas is in the Audit Setup.

You can also create Audit/Hazard Areas directly from the Hazard and Risk Register module — see How to create a new Hazard Area
However, inactive Hazard Areas can only be managed through the Audit Setup screen, not from within the module.

To add a new Audit/Hazard area:

1. Go to Site Setup > Audit Setup > Categories
   
   
   
   
   
2. To add a new area, right-click on any of the existing areas in the hierarchy tree (or the main "Hazard" heading).
   
   
   
   If you right-click on the "Hazards" heading, you will have a chance to confirm where the new area will belong. Otherwise, it will belong under the area you clicked on.
   
   
3. Enter a Hazard Area Name and click on Create button.
   
   

You can also rename any of the areas, by right-clicking on the name in the hierarchy tree and pressing Rename Audit/Hazard Area.

Setting Audit/Hazard areas as inactive/active

It is not possible to entirely delete an area, but a user can set it as in-active, which will remove it from the view inside the Audit and Hazard modules.

To set an area as in-active:

1. Right-click on an area
   
   
2. Choose "Set In-active"
   
   

The area will remain in the hierarchy three with (In-Active) next to its name.

To make an area active, right-click on it and press "Set Active".

FAQ 

• When I create a new Audit in the Schedule, I cannot see all the areas.

The dropdown list visible when creating a new audit in the Audit Schedule is a list of Audit Types sorted by the Audit Areas they belong to. If some Hazard Areas are not visible in that list, it is because there are no Audit Types created under that area.