DS Release 21 Jun 2022 - Enhanced JSA/SWMS and SOPs & Manuals – Damstra Technology

Release overview

When: Tuesday 21 June 2022
What: The enhanced JSA/SWMS module and a new SOPs & Manuals module, based on StateCover's requirements.
Who gets these changes:
- StateCover had it deployed and switched on (staggered release across their multiple end systems).
- All other clients had it deployed and switched off.

The updated JSA/SWMS module, which enhances the existing module located at Risk > JSA/SWMS, provides the following added features:

Uses more clear and appropriate terminology in general
Allows using user-customisable organisational language in the UI
Introduces the concepts of:
- JSA/SWMS types and templates, which control the composition of associated JSA/SWMS on screen and in print and allow setting some default values.
- Generic and specific JSA/SWMS, which allows creating generic SWMS for work activities that are carried out on a regular basis and then creating site- and job-specific SWMS based on the generic ones.
Allows creating more detailed JSA/SWMS documents with more metadata
Provides an improved printed output of the JSA/SWMS document

Standard ("old") JSA/SWMS module	Enhanced ("new") JSA/SWMS module
Customisation of organisational language is not possible	Customisation of organisational language:
JSA/SWMS templates do not exist	Setting up a JSA/SWMS template:
Adding a Work Sequence component:	Adding a Work Sequence component:
Printed output:	Printed output:

The new "SOPs and Manuals" module (the name of the menu item and register are customisable via Settings) under the Assets menu allows:

Storing Safe Operating Procedure (SOP) documents and Manuals documents
Storing metadata related to these documents (approval information, tracking of updates, comments, supporting documents and so on).
Associating these documents with appropriate assets (Transport or Plant/Equipment).

The links are also traceable from the details of the respective assets.