September 2013

September 2013

Sherm Update

New Features Now Available!
Sherm Software is pleased to announce the release of a number of new features and other improvements to your Sherm Software subscription. Again throughout the system areas for improved viewing have been made.
“The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones”

Documentation Module
Resources > Manage Resources
Resources that you may include are documents and links to websites. Previously these resources / external documents did not have any document control. Now when you upload or link you can assign a Document Owner and a Review Date. The date the resource was created will automatically list. For documentation only, Version No, shall be applied. Now all external documentation / resources are controlled and have set review periods.

Risk Module
Injury Management
A usability feature for the “tabbers” amongst us has now been rectified so you can tab sequentially through the data input. I see it as an inefficiency improvement to reduce time for data input. Got to love that!

Planning
Manage Plan
So you’ve developed a Plan for a Project or an Annual WHS Plan. During the review period you want to edit it, well now you can. After a Plan has been release and Actions assigned to persons, you can go back in and Edit the Plan. Only those additions, after the Plan is re-released will be sent to the Assigned Persons.
The Listing Page for Manage Plan will list all Plans that have been created. The Due Date and Completion Date for the Plan is now displayed on the Listing Page along with the number of Action specific to this plan.

Dashboard
My Reported Items
Description for Action provides the user with what actions are to be undertaken and by when. We have fixed the date listing so the user can click on Date to enable filtering for listing by most current due date.

Reports
Listing of Reports
The Reports are now listed respectively with the Modules and better categorized.

Run reports by Site
The following reports now include search by Site:

– Active users
– Hazards
– Incident Register
– Corrective Actions
– Licences and Certificates.

Run report by user:
The following report enables search by User:
– Corrective Actions

Registers

Manual Tasks
The configuration within the Manual Tasks Risk Assessment was found to be incorrect and this has now been rectified.

Cosmetic improvements
Alignment of Columns
I found when working through the system there were a number of areas where the display of text could have provided viewing of more characters. We have worked through this and improved a number of pages throughout Sherm. Given the platform being a SaaS model, there are limitations, however I think the improvements made will enhance view ability for users.

Terms of Use
Please be sure to view the Terms of Use that have been updated on the Site.

Kind Regards
Caroline Kingston
Director