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Managing Compliance Locations

To assess the risk of noncompliance and the degree of compliance at specific locations, risk officers need to know the exact locations that a regulation or requirement applies to, or that a compliance program is designed for.

Note: You can assign locations to regulations, compliance programs, requirements, contracts, or contract terms. The information in this topic applies to locations for all of these items.

You can add location information, including specific equipment items, when adding information for regulations, programs, requirements, contract terms, or contracts. Or, you can use the Compliance Program Manager / Manage Compliance Locations and Contract Manager / Manage Contract Locations if this information was not included when the records were first entered. With these tasks, you work only with locations for compliance programs or only with location for contracts.

You can associate events, documents, costs, and communication logs with locations. You can also select location information and assign it to multiple items at one time. This is an efficient and quick way to manage location information for multiple compliance records when you have already developed records for regulations, contracts, compliance programs, and requirements.

This topic contains the following sections, describing what you can do from the Compliance Program Manager / Manage Compliance Locations and Contract Manager / Manage Contract Locations tasks:

Map Views

If you want to use the Compliance Program Map or the Compliance Violations Map views, you must develop the geographic hierarchy (Country, Region, State, City), and also develop sites that you associate with your buildings. You must then associate these locations with your programs to use the Compliance Program Map) or with violations (to use the Compliance Violations Map.) See the Prerequisites section of the Compliance Program Map and Compliance Violations Map.

Working with the Location Tabs

The following table describes the work you can do from each of the tabs:

Tab Description How to...
Manage Locations

Use the Filter console to locate the locations you want to manage.

Export the locations shown in the bottom panel to Word (by clicking DOCX) or to Excel (by clicking XLS).

Select a location to work with it on the other tabs.

Add a new location for a single record.

Manage Locations Tab - Selecting a Location to Manage

Adding Locations for Regulations, Compliance Programs, Contracts, Contract Terms, or Requirements.

Using the Filter Console from the Manage Compliance Locations Task

Assign Locations

Select locations and assign them to multiple regulations, programs, or requirements at one time.

Update multiple regulation, program, or requirement locations with the same information.

Assign Locations Tab - Making Bulk Assignments and Updates
Define Locations

When you click Add New on the Manage Locations tab, the Define Locations tab becomes active so that you can add a new location.

Alternately, if you select a location on the Manage Locations tab, the Define Locations shows information for the selected location so that you can review and edit it.

From this tab, you can also assign costs to locations.

Adding Locations for Regulations, Compliance Programs, Requirements, Contracts, and Contract Terms
Costs

The Manage Contract Locations view offers this tab for entering costs associated with your locations.

This tab is not present on the Manage Compliance Locations view. For requirements, you enter costs from the Define Locations tab, using the Add Costs button.

Adding Costs to Programs, Requirements, Contracts, Contract Terms, and Locations.

Location Events This tab shows the events associated with the location selected on the Manage Locations tab. You can manually add a non-recurring event, if needed. Defining Events for Compliance Locations
Location Documents

From the Location Documents tab, you can:

  • Open documents associated with the selected location selected on the Manage Locations tab by clicking the link in the Document column. The file name is a link to open the document.
  • Check in a new version of the document. See Using the Document Management System.
  • Edit information for a document by clicking Edit in the row for the document. For a description of the information you can edit, see Adding Documents for Compliance Records.
  • Add additional documents for locations as needed.
Adding Documents for Compliance Records
Location Comm. Log

From the Location Comm. Log tab, you can:

  • View communications logs associated with the selected location selected on the Manage Locations tab by clicking View in the row for the communications log.
  • Edit information for a communications log by clicking Edit in the row for the log.
  • Add additional communications logs for locations as needed. See Adding Communication Logs for Compliance Records.
Adding Communications Logs for Compliance Records

Using the Filter Console

The Manage Locations tab includes a Filter console that enables you to restrict the view to show the locations you want to work with using a variety of criteria. For example, you can enter filter criteria to show locations for specific regulations, programs, or requirements. Or, to target your highest priority compliance efforts, you can select to show locations by regulation rank, compliance priority, or requirement priority. To target the locations that pose the greatest risk of noncompliance, you can restrict the view by the compliance level code.

When using the Filter console, note the following:

Selecting a Location and Editing Location Information

From this tab, you can:

To edit location information:

  1. If needed, enter information in the Filter console to locate the location you want to edit. See Using the Filter Console.
  2. In the Select Compliance Location to Manage pane, click Select in the row for the location.

    The Define Compliance Location pane shows information for the location.

  3. Edit the information and click Save. See Adding and Editing Locations for Regulations, Contracts, Compliance Programs, or Requirements for a description of the fields you can enter.