What job safety analysis includes and how it differs

Job Safety Analysis is a module of its own in ABMS, separate from Risk management and Environmental aspects. This page collects the facts about the module as a whole: how it is switched on, how the rights apply, what it does not include, and how it differs from Environmental aspects and Risk management. The screens themselves are described on The JSA index and the analysis dialog and The analysis page, item dialogs and risk picker.

The module and its rights

Fact	Applies to
The module is available only when it has been switched on for your company. If your company does not have it and wants it, contact Antenor; see Get help from Antenor support.	The Job Safety Analysis module.
The rights on Job Safety Analysis apply to the whole module. There is no right for a single analysis: a user with a right has it for every job safety analysis of the company. The rights table is described in The Users page and the rights table.	Rights on the Job Safety Analysis row.
The module has no Admin tab. The matrix, the categories and the colours are fixed and cannot be set up.	The Job Safety Analysis module.
The Responsible list in the dialog for a job step contains the company’s users with the Approve right or higher on the Job Safety Analysis row. Deactivated users who have that right are in the list too.	The dialog for changing a job step.
In a browser window narrower than 992 pixels, such as on a phone or a small tablet, the index shows only the Area column. The dates, the Info and Delete icons and the Add link are hidden; clicking a row still opens the analysis.	The Job Safety Analysis index.

What the module does not include

Feature	In Job Safety Analysis
Attachments	None. Files cannot be attached to an analysis or a job step.
Export and print	No export and no print function.
History of changes	None. The index shows only when the analysis information was last changed; see The JSA index and the analysis dialog.
Favourites	None.
Global fields	None.
Graphs, Top 10, heat map	None.
E-mails and notifications	None. Choosing a responsible person or a due date sends nothing; see Add, assess and follow up job steps.
Actions	A job step’s Responsible and Due date are fields on the job step, not actions. They are not in the Action Manager, not on the dashboard and not covered by action reminders.
Choice of matrix	None. Every analysis uses the same fixed 5 × 5 grid with four categories.
Total score	None. Each category has its own score; there is no sum per job step or per analysis.

Compared with Environmental aspects

Topic	Job Safety Analysis	Environmental aspects
Risk categories	Personal, Asset, Environment, Reputation	Public health (P), Legal (L), Environment Risk, Reputation Risk
Fields of the analysis	Area, Discipline, Scope, Responsible, Reference, JSA responsible, JSA group, Date	Area, Scope, Responsible, Aspect manager, Participants, Date
Fields of a row	Job step, Risk factor, risk analysis, Status, Risk Reducing Activity, Responsible, Due date, residual risk	Area, Aspect, Potential Consequence, Cause, risk analysis, Status, action (Controlling activity, Responsible, Due date), residual risk, Compliance, Regulations/Standards
Risk analysis and residual risk	Independent: saving one never changes the other.	Saving the risk analysis also sets the residual risk until the action has been accepted.
Follow-up	Responsible and Due date are plain fields; nothing is sent.	An action is sent to the responsible person and answered in rounds, with e-mails; see Action rounds, statuses and e-mails.
Statuses	Five: Open, Pending, No action, Closed, In progress. All five can be chosen in every status list, and the status changes nothing else.	Six, adding Reopen. The action rounds set the status, and the status locks fields and the risk picker.
Who can be Responsible	Users with Approve or higher, deactivated users included.	Active users with Approve or higher.
Filter box above the index	Matches only the analyses on the page you are on (10 per page).	Matches all analyses; the page numbers are hidden while the box has text.
Risk graph	None.	Yes; see The risk graph, help-text and identification pages.
Links to documents and regulations	None.	Compliance and Regulations/Standards on each row.
Scale texts	Standard texts in Standard scale texts and score values in job safety analysis.	Standard texts in Standard scale texts and score values in environmental aspects.

Both modules share: a fixed 5 × 5 grid with the same cell colours, one score per category (consequence × probability), scale texts that can be changed only right after an analysis is created, 10 rows per page, and the same right levels.

Compared with Risk management

Risk management is a separate module with its own rules. Features that Risk management has and Job Safety Analysis does not: matrices that your company sets up in an Admin tab, scale texts edited per matrix, a sum across the matrix tabs, global fields, Top 10, export, attachments, history, favourites, the graphical analysis page, the heat map and actions in the Action Manager. See Find and read a risk analysis.

Labels to know

Where	Label
Left menu	Job Safety Analysis
Heading of the index	Job safety analysis index
Heading of the analysis page	The area of the analysis followed by “jsa items”
Heading of the identification page, and title of the information dialog on the analysis page	JSA analysis
Tab and column for reputation	In English, the tab in the risk picker and the column in the table are both called Reputation. In Norwegian they have two different names. Both are the same category.