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# Explore

# Exploring Health and Safety Core {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Australia
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* Updated March 12, 2026
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read

Health and Safety Core enables the organizations to streamline and automate essential business functions across the Health and Safety applications.

## Health and Safety Core overview {#explore-hs-core__section_ctl_3hc_qfc}

The Health and Safety Core application provides the core date model for Health and Safety. This data models consists of common components and data structure to enable the functioning of related Health and Safety applications.

* Health and Safety Workspace is used by safety agents to perform their safety tasks. All health and safety applications that are installed use the Health and Safety Workspace.
* Health and Safety dashboard provides a centralized overview of your organization's safety performance. It helps safety teams monitor, analyze, and manage key safety metrics such as incidents, injuries, risks, and corrective actions across various locations and time periods.
* Health and Safety user profile provides safety teams access to all the information associated with health and safety records in a central location.
* Safety teams can manage safety meetings and tasks such as scheduling a meeting or recording notes.
* Report field mapping enables the safety agents to generate PDF reports for the records.
* Health and Safety documents enable the safety teams to view documents associated with a safety record.
* Health and Safety action scheduler helps to create scheduled actions across the organization.
* Action Planner enables safety teams to view, create, and manage corrective and preventive actions on any Health and Safety record without navigating away from the page.
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## User Personas {#explore-hs-core__section_str_dm1_3fc}

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| Benefits | Feature | User |
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| Access the workspace to process safety records. | [Health and Safety Workspace](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/nFOC8NYiM8Kbi1RZUAHB_w "The Health and Safety Workspace provides a single location for safety teams to process safety records. Agents can use it to manage incidents, risks, contracts, or cases depending on the applications installed.") | Safety agents |
| Get insights into key safety metrics with a centralized interface. | [Health and Safety dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/aHZbjFbjUexDgng49YcBoA "With the Health and Safety dashboard, you can actively monitor and manage workplace safety performance across different locations in your organization and identify areas needing attention.") | Safety team |
| Access the user information in one central location. | [Health and Safety user profile](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/_droiCub7Gf2ksovbrzY4g "A Health and Safety profile provides safety team with all the information about a user in one central place.") | Safety team |
| Create safety report field mapping to map fields in your reporting PDF template to the corresponding fields in the Health and Safety records. | [Report field mapping](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/wtQEn6FwZee6d5k3ysBmtg "Create a safety report field mapping to map fields in your reporting PDF template to the corresponding fields in the Health and Safety records.") | Safety report mapping manager |
| Log and track the meetings in the Health and Safety application. | [Safety meetings](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/x_LOVfstoBjITsjER7axkg "Log a safety meeting and keep a track of it in the Health and Safety application.") | Safety meeting manager |
| Create an action schedule to schedule actions across the organization. | [Health and Safety action scheduler](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/1flh6fKgmZPfWNX8~K8nYA "Use the Health and Safety action scheduler to create and schedule actions across the organization and auto-assign them to specific individuals using the condition builder.") | Safety agents |
| Manage actions in context while reviewing a Health and Safety record. | [Action planner](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/~TlJbAvW9NBlA0zEp7srKw "The Action planner sidebar panel in the Health and Safety Workspace enables safety teams to manage actions directly from a Health and Safety record, without navigating away from the page.") | Safety team |
| Create and manage safety knowledge articles. | [Safety knowledge articles](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/rHLhbSsJsgbSnx4ZY3QyIA "As a safety manager or agent, you can manage safety-related knowledge base articles in the Health and Safety Workspace.") | Safety manager |
[Table 1. Benefits and user personas]

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