Approve Hazards and Operations

Operations and hazards that a vessel enters itself do not go into the catalog unchecked — the office releases them first. This tutorial gives the order of the steps; the functions themselves are described in the documentation under Approving Hazards and Operations.

Suggested order

1. Get notified instead of looking. Switch on the two User Dashboard entries for unapproved hazards and unapproved operations, and limit them to the vessels you are responsible for.
2. Handle the operations first. An operation is the bracket around the hazards, so deciding it first avoids approving hazards under an entry that turns out to be a duplicate.
3. Look for duplicates before rejecting. Vessels often request something that already exists under a different spelling. Assigning the request to the existing operation keeps the Risk Assessments that already hang on it; rejecting and re-entering loses that link.
4. Then release the hazards, and merge the ones that duplicate an existing hazard rather than deleting them.
5. Tidy up occasionally by removing hazards no Risk Assessment refers to any more.

Good to know beforehand

Both functions are available in the office only, and each needs its own right. If a menu entry is missing, that is the reason — not a fault.