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2022 Q3-1

Inspections and Observations

• We renamed the “Open Inspections” tab to “Actions by Inspection” under “corrective actions.”
• The “Edit Inspection” Template UI has been updated.

Incident Management

• The “Incident submit” message is now set by going to “Edit Settings”→ “Label”→ “Incident.”
• We added the following option: “Have Exit Page?” and the related text, “Exit Page Message,” under “Edit Incidents → Incident Types →Create New Incident Type” and “Edit Incident Type.” After submitting the incident, the user will immediately be directed to a separate page with the “Exit Page Message.”

Dashboards and Analytics

• On the In-app Dashboard, we have added a “Top 10 categories by Safe Responses” chart to “Inspections.” This chart displays the “safe response” count of a respective category.
• The “Top 10 Categories by Actions” chart has been updated from an annual line chart to a stacked bar chart. This can be accessed through “Dashboards” → “Corrective Actions.”

Laboratory Assessment Tool

• We have added a new feature for designating reviewers for group assessments. This feature is a new “LQ Admin” setting, labeled “Enable Group Reviewer Email.”
• We have added a “Limit Room Types” filter within the “Edit LATCH > Assessment Settings” under the “Admin” tab. This will show in the “change room” section when creating a new LATCH assessment.

Permit Authorizations

• Previously, only users with the “Admin” role could reassign permit forms. There is now an “Allow permit form re-assignment role” setting on the “Permit Type” form configuration under “Edit Forms.” This will allow users with other roles to reassign permit application forms.

Integration and API Updates

• In a specific client’s integrations, users can now be added with the “Inspector” role and “user inspection permission” as a default. This allows those users to conduct inspections on any project listed on the site and view completed inspections and corrective actions.
• We have added an external client integration within “forms.”

Data Manager

• We have a new search filter, “Database ID,” within “Data Manager > Rad Inventory.”
• We have updated “User Merge” to include “Chemical Inventory.”
• We have added “additional Group fields” to the “Groups” export.

Other

• Users can now update the short name for the existing organization while importing “Space Inventory.”
• We have changed a client’s “Training integration” data file path. Previously, training CSV data files were pulled from a third-party server. An SS Sftp server has been introduced and a subfolder for training files has been created.
• There is now an “LQ Admin” setting to enable or disable “Location Page” in mobile applications. The default is for it to be enabled.
• We have created an import script to update “incident created date,” “incident reporter,” “contributing factors,” “osha301 date of hire,” “select supervisor,” and “end time determined.”

2022 Q4-1

Inspections and Observations

• We have updated the “inspection action aggregate” email to use “summary corrective action” instead of “question comment.”
• On the “corrective action” form, how the “severities” are displayed will be based on the “added priority value.”
• On the “inspection questions” page, how the “categories” are displayed will be based on the “added priority value” under the “edit template” form.
• Users with “Admin” status can now update the “corrective action reassignment date” to any date before the “requested due date.”
• We have added a “SAM Inspectors” report under “Summary Reports.”
• We have added a “Subgroup” report under “Summary Reports.”
• The date filter has been updated so that the date range will be set at a default of “1 month” for the “SAM Detail Report.”
• The “SAM Detail report” can now be exported from under the “Summary Reports” tab.
• We have created a new tab for “SAM Projects” under the “Summary Reports” tab.
• Within “SAM Summary Reports,” we have added a “safe observations” column in the “data” table. The default “date range” for the “data” table is now set to “1 month” and will not show inactive severities.
• We have restricted the “corrective actions” count to 50, even when the “unsafe observation” count is greater than or equal to 50.

Users can still enter more than 50 “emergencies,” but only 50 “corrective actions” will be generated.

• We have added “Last Inspection Date,” “User Tag,” and “Notes” columns to the “Assigned Inspectors” export.
• A new “LQ” setting has been added to the “SAM inspection.” If enabled, the parent group can be checked or unchecked under the “inspection scope.”
• There is now an “Inspectable” option on the “new/edit group type” form. This provides the ability to search “groups” by using “group type” names.
• A new “LQ” setting has been added to the “SAM inspection” that when enabled or disabled will hide or show the “Items,” “Training,” “Files,” “Follow-up,
  and “Notes” tabs.
• When the child groups do not contain any roster members, a message will appear to remind users that parent group rosters can be used as child group rosters.

Chemical Inventory

The “chemical inventory import” script has been updated to support the area, “Sub location,” column.

Dashboards and Analytics

• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have added a new dashboard for the “PI.” The components for this dashboard are the following:
  • “Contact information”– This displays contact information, such as the email and phone number, for the logged-in PI.
  • “Most Recent Inventory Update”– This displays the latest “inventory modified/created date” for the PI.
  • “Inspections with open corrective actions”– This displays the count of any inspections associated with the PI as an “inspected object.”
  • “Training Compliance”– This displays the compliance rate for training for each of the PI’s roster members.
  • “Lab Roster”– This displays the “PI roster data” table. Roster updates can be made here.
  • “Recent Completed Hazards”– This is a data table that displays all the assessments of the PI.
  • “Recently Completed Inspections”– This displays any completed inspections that had the PI as the “inspectable object.”
• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have updated the “LATCH Dashboard” with the following components:
  • “Completed Assessments”– This displays the count of completed assessments.
  • “Completed Assessments, by month (last 12 months)”– This displays the count of completed assessments from the last 12 months.
  • “Completed Assessments, by Department”– This displays the count of completed assessments by the corresponding department.
  • “Top 10 Categories by Activities”– This displays the count of answered activities in assessments by category.
• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have added a “Radiation Dashboard” with the following components:
  • The total number of “active,” “inactive,” and “terminated” RAM permits.
  • “The total number of active RAM permits”– This displays the number of RAM permits by department, as a graph.
  • “New permits issued”– This displays the number of “RAM permit applications” approved by month.
  • “New amendments issued”– This displays the number of “RAM permit amendments” approved by month.
  • “Number of packages received, number”– This displays the number of packages ordered and received on a 12-month rolling chart.
• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have added a “Project Registrations Dashboard” which displays the following charts:
  • A 12-month rolling chart displaying the number of applications received vs. the number of applications approved.
  • A 12-month rolling chart displaying the number of amendments received vs. the number of amendments approved.
  • A chart for the number of completed projects associated with each department.
  • A chart for the number of completed projects associated with each biosafety level.
  • A 12-month rolling chart displaying the number of projects completed vs. the number of projects submitted and the number of projects in progress vs. the number of projects that have expired.
• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have added the following new charts to the “Inspection Dashboard”:
  • A 12-month rolling chart displaying the number of completed inspections for each month.
  • A bar chart displaying the compliance rate for “High-Risk Inspection Items.”
  • A bar chart displaying the number of active inspections per template.
  • A cumulative bar chart displaying the number of inspections that have been completed, but still have open corrective actions.
• Within the “In-app Dashboard,” we have added a new “Training Dashboard” with the following components:
  • “Various types of training vs. compliance rate/numbers”– This displays the training types per the associated compliance rate.
  • “Monthly Trend (number of training sessions attended for the last 12 months)”– This displays the count of training sessions attended over the previous 12 months. (Note: The date filter for this chart can be hidden.)

Laboratory Assessment Tool

• In the “Assessment Summary” report, we have added a new “Assessment Type” filter to search assessments by “PI,” “Group,” and “Room.”

Data Manager

• We have added a new tab, “Asset Map View,” under “DM/Assets” that shows all asset counts on “Google Maps.” This is based on the location coordinates.
• When a child group is removed from the parent group, that child group’s roster members will also be removed from that parent group.

Other

• Roster updates are now logged under the “data manager,” the “LATCH” personal tab, and the “merge” functionality.
• The filter UI for the “Summary Reports” tab has been updated.
• On the mobile applications, we have added a new “LQ” setting for showing “recently inspected objects” when starting an inspection.