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What is access?

Learn more about what access means in SafetyCulture, as well as how to manage access across the platform.

What is access?

Access is a fundamental part of SafetyCulture. It dictates your visibility over documents such as templates, inspections, and actions created in your organization and how deeply you can interact with them.

Access

Templates and inspections

By giving access to templates, you determine which users and groups are able to conduct inspections using them. You can also give varying levels of access to allow users to edit templates, and archive or delete them in your organization.

Inspection access rules can also be configured to allow users to view, edit, or delete individual inspections other users in their organization have created using a particular template. View template and inspection access via the web app.

Training

Access to courses comes in two parts: Editing and assigning. By default, each course you create is only available to you for editing. You can share a course with other team members so they can collaborate with you in editing your training content.

Share a course with others for editing via the web app.

Once a course is ready to go, you need to assign the course to your team members for them to access and take it as training.

Please note that access to quizzes are managed separately to courses.

Actions

Actions created in inspections and inspection reports follow the access rules of the associated inspection, meaning whoever has access to relevant inspections can also view and update actions created as part of them. Users who are assigned to the action will also be given access.

You can also create standalone actions and configure access rules to allow all users in your organization, site members, or collaborators to view and update them. Manage standalone action access for your organization via the web app.

Issues

You can control who in your organization can report issues under each active issue category. You can also limit whether users can only report issues or whether they can view and edit reported issues in each category.

Issue access overview on the web app.

Advanced access

Templates and inspections

Inspection access can be managed so that site members from each inspection's selected site are given access. You can also give access to users who are members of a specific combination of a group and a site, allowing you to manage access dynamically with minimal effort.

Similarly, template access can be given to members of specific sites or members of a specific combination of a group and a site.

Assign advanced inspection access via the web app.

Issues

Issue access can be managed so that site members from each issue's selected site are given access. You can also give access to users who are members of a specific combination of groups and a site, ensuring reported issues are only visible to relevant team members.

Set up dynamic issue access via the web app.

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