Sustainability & Risk / Hazard Abatement / Background Data - Facilities

Defining Background Data about your Facility

As a business process owner, you are responsible for maintaining the basic data about the facility by working with the following tasks. If your site uses other Archibus applications, you may find that you have already created this data.

• Define Geographic Locations
• Define Organizations

To document the rooms in your facility:

• Define Room Standards
• Define Room Categories and Types
• Define Locations
  • If you wish to graphically show on floor plan drawings the locations of hazardous substances or areas from which you collect samples for testing, you should also create a room plan in CAD. For information, see CAD User: Overview.
  • When defining buildings, be sure to enter the construction date, rehab date, construction material, and so forth. Later, when users search for hazmat information, they may wish to search based on this construction-related building data.

Tips

Some background data tasks use a drill-down selection list to present the levels of location and geographic data. For information, see Using Drill-Down Selection Lists.

When editing existing data, you can use the filter console, located at the top of the view, to limit the display of the locations to only those containing the value you enter in the filter console. For information on the filter console, see Using Filter Consoles.