Environmental & Risk Management / Environmental Health & Safety / EH&S - Background Data

Configure EH&S Application Parameters

The Environmental Health & Safety application provides several configurable application parameters with which you can control the behavior of the application. These parameters allow you to customize application behavior based on your organization's needs and policies.

Application Parameter	Description	Default Value
IncidentsDaysDeadline	The number of days for an incident to be considered a recent incident, that is the incident occurred during previous number of days.	90 days
MedicalMonitoringDaysDeadline	Number of days before an employee must participate in a Medical Monitoring event. This is used in the Pending Medical Monitoring report.	15 days
NotifyMedicalMonitoring	Indicate whether or not the application sends notifications to employees when they have a scheduled Medical Monitoring and when a scheduled Medical Monitoring is rescheduled or deleted.	NO
NotifyPpe	Indicate whether the application sends email notifications to employees when they are assigned a Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) delivery and when any scheduled delivery is rescheduled or deleted, or the delivery location changes.	NO
NotifyTraining	Indicate whether the application sends email notifications to employees when they are assigned to a scheduled Training Program, and when a scheduled Training Program is rescheduled or deleted.	NO
TrainingDaysDeadline	Number of days before the deadline to pass a Training Program. This is used in the Pending Training report.	15 days
PpeDaysDeadline	Number of days before deadline to deliver Personal Protective Equipment. This is used in the Pending PPE report.	15 days

To edit or change the value of an EH&S application parameter:

In the Process Navigator, choose the EH&S Background Data process, and the Configure Application Parameters task.
The EH&S application parameters are listed in the left pane.
Click on a parameter, and its values are listed in the right pane.
Make changes to the parameter's value.
In the right pane, click Save to establish your changes.
Depending on the particular parameter that you change, you must do one of the following in order for the change to take effect. Consult a system administrator if you need help.

restart the application server
choose the Reload All Parameters button, located at the top of the left panel.