Industrial Hygiene and Safety
Measures 
Definition
An action, regulation, or other measure to prevent accidents at the workplace, avoid potential health hazards caused by the work environment, and make the workplace safer for employees.
In the SAP standard system, industrial hygiene and safety measures are divided into the following categories:
● Organizational
● Person-related
● Technical
In the application we generally use the shorter form safety measure instead of industrial hygiene and safety measure. This also applies to the data structure.
Use
You enter industrial hygiene and safety measures to document preventive or corrective actions that relate to a work area or persons that work in the work area, and monitor their successful completion. Industrial hygiene and safety measures are therefore an instrument used to actively improve the prevention of accidents and hazards.
You can enter industrial hygiene and safety measures for the following objects:
● Work area
● Risk assessment
● Incident/accident log entry
Structure
Safety Measure Context
Depending on which object the safety measure relates to, it has the following header information:
Work Area |
Risk Assessment |
Incident/Accident Log Entry |
Agent, agent type |
||
Plant |
Work area |
|
Higher-level work area |
Operation status |
Plant |
|
Sequential number of risk assessment |
If the accident location is a work area, the safety measure also has an indirect reference to a work area. |
Safety Measure Category
Each safety measure is categorized from a logical point of view by the safety measure category. The safety measure category also determines whether integration of safety measures in other SAP components is possible (see “Integration“ section).
If you want to adapt or extend the categories, process the IMG activity Specify Safety Measure Categories in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety.
Safety Measure Type
The safety measures in a safety measure category can be grouped into safety measure types. In Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety under Specify Safety Measure Types you can set which safety measure types you want to use.
Safety Measure Status
See Status Editing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety Measures.
Costs
If you have created
and activated an implementation for the Business Add-In
(BAdI) Cost Calculation in Customizing for
Industrial Hygiene and Safety, you can get the
system to calculate the costs of the safety measure by choosing 
Calculate
Costs. If you do not use this function, you can enter the costs
manually.
Additional Information
Using the additional information you can specify the organizational information and content of the safety measure in more detail. These details can include the following information:
● A description of the safety measure of any length (as a SAPscript long text)
● Protection goal
You specify
the protection goal in the form of a 
phrase,
which you choose using the input help. You must have created the
phrases already and assigned them to the field. For more information, see
Assign Phrase Sets to Fields in
Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and
Safety.
● Planned start and planned end of safety measure (date and time)
● Date and time of execution
● Date and time of check
● Effectiveness
You can enter the degree of success of the safety measure. You must have already defined the values you want to be able to choose from in Customizing for Industrial Hygiene and Safety under Specify Effectiveness.
● Person responsible, administrator, responsible for check
You can specify the various persons responsible. These can be employees, external persons, or applicants.
Integration
In the standard system, safety measures of the category technical can be integrated in other SAP components, such as Plant Maintenance (PM). This means you can pass on technical safety measures as part of a notification to maintenance processing where they are known as tasks.
Safety measures can also be integrated with the cause analysis process in the incident/accident log. For more information, see Cause Analysis.