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Quick summary
  • A hazard has causes, each cause has controls, and evidence on a control supports every hazard using it.
  • Editing or deleting a linked cause or control changes it everywhere it’s used, but a copy is independent.

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The four objects

Evidence hangs off a control, not the hazard, so one piece of evidence supports every hazard where that control appears. Causes and controls go into a shared bank every hazard can draw from, whichever hazard you created them on.
The Hazard Log with HAZ-029 expanded, showing the hazard, its cause CS-029 and the cause's two controls, CTRL-047 and CTRL-049, each with a paperclip evidence count

A hazard expanded in the Hazard Log. 1 The hazard. 2 One of its causes. 3 One of that cause's controls. 4 The paperclip that opens the control's evidence.

Pulling a cause or control from the bank offers a copy icon and a link icon.
Takes the text only.
  • Its controls and evidence don’t come with it.
  • Editing it later affects only this hazard.
Use copy when this hazard’s version will diverge, with a different owner, evidence or scope.
The Link or copy existing Causes to this Hazard panel, filtered to Clinic Triage Assistant, with cause CS-039 showing a copy icon and a link icon at its right edge

A cause in the Link or copy existing Causes panel. 1 Copy takes the text only. 2 Link connects to the original.

To take a cause or control out of use without losing it, archive it.

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Evidence

There are 2 routes to the same evidence pop-out, behind a control’s paperclip icon:
Open the hazard, select the control, and click the paperclip icon.
Either way, you can add a file, a link, a note or a document already in Assuric.
  • Choose an existing document where there is one, so the evidence links to it instead of uploading a copy.
  • Document Version points at one specific version, so check the control still points to the current version after the document is re-approved.
The Control Evidence panel for CTRL-047 with the New Evidence button and the Add from existing evidence library section with its search box and filters

The Control Evidence panel, opened from a control's paperclip. 1 New Evidence adds a Link, Upload, Note or Document Version. 2 Add from existing evidence library attaches one that already exists.

Create a hazard

The end-to-end procedure, using the model above.

Manage hazards

Editing, archiving or deleting a shared item.