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Retire a hazard

Some hazards stop being hazards. The chemical is no longer used, the machine has been replaced, the work practice has changed. Retire the hazard so it stops cluttering your live register, but don’t delete it — the audit trail matters.

Steps

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  1. Open the hazard.
  2. Click Edit in the kebab menu (⋯).
  3. Change Status to Closed (or whatever closed-equivalent value your org’s lookup uses).
  4. Add a description note explaining why the hazard is being closed (“equipment removed 2026-04-12; replaced with X”).
  5. Save.

The hazard’s BRAG colour turns blue. It still appears on the list unless you filter it out via the Status filter.

Don’t delete

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The Delete action in the kebab menu wipes the hazard. Use it only if the hazard was added in error (duplicate, test entry).

If the hazard was real and is now resolved, Status: Closed is the right choice. It preserves:

  • Cross-links to incidents and inspections that referenced it.
  • The audit trail of who created it, who managed it, who closed it.
  • Evidence for an inspector that you tracked the hazard for as long as it existed.

When closed hazards reappear

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If the hazard comes back (the equipment returns, the activity resumes), don’t reopen the closed record — create a new hazard and link it to the old one via the Related tab. A clear reset is more useful than a confusing on-again-off-again history.

See also

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