Creating Custom Values for Cause of Injury, Body Part, and Nature of Injury

You can create custom values to use on the IMS Injury information screen. With custom values that suit your organization, OSHA reporting and the Safety Scorecard can more accurately describe injuries tracked in the IMS. Default and custom values can be marked active or inactive. This limits the selection list presented to users in lookup options.

A default set of values is provided for each of the three tables. These defaults cannot be modified or deleted. However, you can make them inactive by unchecking the Active check box. This removes them from the list of values on the injury screen.

If you plan to create a complete set of custom values for use by your organization and wish to inactivate all values while you work, you can check the Active check box in the grid heading row. This toggles all the values on the page between active and inactive. Each page must be handled separately in the same manner.

Note: There is No save button on this screen. Changes are saved automatically as you work.

In the Cause of Injury example below, Aircraft Collisions and Dog Bite are identified as a custom values by the green check in the Custom column. Values that do not have a check are default values.

Settings > IMS SettingsCause of Injury

Settings > IMS SettingsNature of Injury

Settings > IMS Settings Body Part

Cause of Injury table

The actions described below are the same for all three tables. The examples show Cause of Injury but the methods are identical for Body Part and Nature of Injury.

Create Custom Values

Use the Create Factor button to open a pop-up window. On this window, you can add a custom value which you can optionally map to a default value.


Create Cause of Injury table

Field Description
Name Name of the new option. Names must be unique. An attempt to save a duplicate name produces an error message.
Category Custom values may be associated with a default value by performing an auto-search and selecting from the drop-down list. You can also click the select button at the right end of the field to display the list of default values from which you can select.

Mapping a custom value to a default value will be beneficial in the future when PureSafety creates cross-client reporting that will allow you to compare metrics for your organization to others in the same industry.

Active check box The box is checked by default. When building a new list of custom values, you can keep them inactive until the list is complete to make them available.
Note: When a value is not active, it removes the value from the selection list for injuries going forward. Existing injuries that used the value before it was inactivated continue to display the value normally.

Modify Custom Values

You can modify a custom value by clicking in the name and editing the field. The name changes are reflected throughout the system including on reports.

Delete Custom Values

You can use the Delete button to remove custom values that have not been used in an injury. A warning message displays if you delete a value that is associated with an injury.
Note: Default values cannot be deleted even if they have not been used in an injury record.

Security Permissions

Three IMS security permissions control the new tables. These permissions are assigned to the IMS Administrator role, by default. These permissions are available only if you have licensed IMS.

  • Can Create "Body Part" Configurable Look-up Values
  • Can Create "Cause of Injury" Configurable Look-up Values
  • Can Create "Nature of Injury" Configurable Look-up Values