Using the operational dashboard in Ideagen Safety
The ‘Operational Dashboard’ in Damstra Safety provides a graphical, real-time snapshot of the Health & Safety landscape across your organisation. Powerful and easy to use, it’s a great starting point for your regular Health & Safety meetings. This guide covers how to access, understand, and get the most out of this feature.
🖥️ Accessing the Operational Dashboard
The ‘Operational Dashboard’ can be accessed via Dashboard in the Menu bar. Expand it to reveal all sections of the ‘Dashboard’.
📈 Overall Status
The ‘Overall Status Dashboard’ provides the highest-level look across key elements of Ideagen . No setup or manual data entry is required—it automatically accumulates data from all modules of Ideagen Safety and displays it in easily readable graphs, charts, and tables.
📍 Filter by Site
Use the Site Selection button in the Menu bar to choose one or more Sites (depending on your access level). The Dashboard will filter to only show data for the selected Site(s).
📅 Filter by Date
Choose between All Records (all data since system implementation) or Custom to set a date range. You can use presets or manually pick dates from the calendar.
✅ Filter by Completion or ‘OK’ Status
Tick the Hide Completed and OK records checkbox to focus on ongoing/unresolved items, or untick to show all data.
📄 Web Form Status
The Risk Management section shows the number of Risks and Significant Risks identified in the Risk Assessment section. Data is displayed by category and status.
You can click the Full-screen icon to enlarge graphs/charts.
🔍 Data Points
Hover over a graph segment to display the data key, and click on it to jump directly to the source data in Damstra Safety.
🚨 Event Status
Shows the number of Events and related Investigations logged in the Risk module, separated by type and displayed by status.
🚚 Plant and Transport Status
Displays Certification and Maintenance statuses for Plant and Transport items from the Assets module. Use radio buttons to switch between Company and Contracted Workers.
📆 Events Last 7 Days
Shows Pending and Active Events reported within the last 7 days. Data appears in a sortable/searchable table.
🎓 Investigations and Training
Displays overdue/due Investigations and upcoming Training (next 30 days).
📤 Exporting the Overall Status Dashboard
Click System Status Report and choose:
Company name in header
Paper size and orientation
Format: HTML (requires login) or PDF (for printing/sharing)
📧 Sending Status Report via Email
Click Send Status Report, add recipients and comments, then send the PDF.
⏳ Expiry Dashboards
Shows expiry details for:
Inductions
Licences
Training
PPE
Medicals
Safety Data Sheets
Each Expiry Dashboard includes filtering options and a table view. Click Actions → View for details.
🖨️ Exporting Expiry Dashboards
Click Print and select HTML or PDF to export the Expiry Dashboard.