Incident categories serve two purposes. First, they standardize incident reporting in the field by limiting security guards to select from a predefined list of incident categories.
Second, you will use incident categories to populate site incident analytics automatically. As guards complete reports using the incident categories, the information is fed into the incident analytics and trend reports.
To produce the most detailed and meaningful analytics, it is best practice to add incident categories to reports whenever possible.
Incident Categories
- Incident categories are the types of incidents security guards may encounter in the field.
- These are the items that will populate the Incident Type drop-down menu when security guards are completing incident reports.
Parent Categories
- You can assign individual incident categories to parent categories.
- This does not affect the list that security guards use to select incident types.
- However, the parent categories can be used by admins to set different notification rules for groups of incident categories.
- For example, there can be different notifications for all "Maintenance" incident categories without selecting every individual incident category.
Groups / Industries
- Incident categories can also be grouped for different industries or types of sites.
- You can create different groups of incident categories for various sites. This also allows you to create a client-specific list of incidents.
- You can select whether a site will use a specific incident group or the default list in the Site Profile.
Master Incident Categories
- Represent a hierarchy level one up from the parent categories.
- Feeds into incident analytics reports.
- Example: All types of 'Unsecure' Incident Categories (Unsecure Door, Unsecure Window, etc.) can be grouped into an 'Unsecure' Master Incident Category.