Findings tab: safety tips and decisions

What this page is

Safety data does not sit still. Incidents get logged, certifications age toward expiration, insurance policies come up for renewal, and OSHA has its own calendar. Verinode watches all of it and turns the patterns into two things on the Findings tab: a short strip of open tips at the top, and a grid of decisions below it. Neither list is something you built. Both fill in as your Safety Advisor reads the incidents, certifications, policies, and insurance you already have on file, and as a background detector runs the same data against OSHA regulations and the peer network.

Verinode does not file your paperwork or decide your next move. It surfaces what it found, with the dollar or regulatory exposure attached where one exists, and you decide what to do with it.

Where to find it

Open Safety from the sidebar. The Safety card slider opens on Findings, the first of five tabs across the top: Findings, All Safety, Standing, Exposure, Benchmarks. This article covers Findings; the other four tabs read the same underlying records from different angles (a full record list, your compliance standing, where capacity is at risk this week, and peer comparison).

Open tips

At the top of the Findings tab, above the decisions grid, an Open tips strip appears whenever you have unresolved safety tips. Each tip is a short card with a bold headline and, underneath it, one or two lines of plain-language rationale. The strip shows up to four tips at a time; it is a quick-read rollup, not a place to click into detail, so treat it as your at-a-glance list of what needs attention before you dig into the grid below.

Tips reach this strip two ways. Some are generated as your data is ingested, when a pattern is obvious the moment a record lands (a policy category that has never been reviewed, for example). Others come from the safety detector described below, which runs its checks and writes findings directly. Either way, they show up here as the same kind of card, and they clear from the strip once you act on or dismiss the underlying finding elsewhere on the Safety page.

If nothing is open, the strip simply does not render, there is no separate empty-state message for it. The decisions grid below is where the fuller picture, and its own empty state, lives.

The decisions grid

Below the tips strip sits the decisions grid, the same gallery layout used on every section's Findings tab across the platform (see the decision workspace for how these plan-and-decide surfaces work generally). A small eyebrow line above the grid reads the count, for example "3 decisions to review," and each tile below it is one decision: a title naming the specific pattern found, a dollar figure and time period when Verinode can attach one, and a status pill.

Click any tile to drill in. Where Verinode can trace the decision back to a specific incident, policy, or insurance record, clicking opens that record's detail view directly, so you land on the actual entry the finding is about rather than a generic summary.

Empty state. If there is nothing to review, the grid reads exactly:

"No decisions for safety right now. As your agent finds patterns, they'll appear here."

That is the expected state for a newly connected account. It means data has not flowed in yet, or nothing in what has flowed in has crossed a threshold worth flagging, not that anything is broken.

The safety detector, underneath both lists

Both the tips strip and the decisions grid are fed by a detector that runs across your incidents, team certifications, insurance policies, and safety policies. It runs after safety data changes and on a recurring schedule, comparing your current numbers against OSHA rules, your own calendar, and (where a peer cohort exists) the anonymized network. Five checks account for most of what you will see:

Recordable incident

Fires within about a week of logging a new incident that is OSHA-recordable and still open or under investigation. A fatality or lost-time incident is flagged critical; other recordables come through as a warning. The finding calls out that the event will affect your Experience Modification Rate (EMR) for three years, and that corrective action plus OSHA Form 301 documentation are required. Your Safety Advisor can draft the 301 form and a corrective action plan from a short description if you want help getting started.

Insurance expiring

Checks every insurance policy on file against its expiration date. A policy inside 30 days of expiring generates a warning; inside 14 days, or already expired, it escalates to critical. The finding names the specific coverage (for example, "Workers' comp coverage expires in 12 days" or "Pollution liability coverage expired"), because a bare "expired" tells you nothing about which policy lapsed. The reasoning behind the urgency: carrier programs typically auto-suspend an operator within one to three business days of a lapsed certificate of insurance, so the recommendation is to contact your broker immediately and get updated COIs to every carrier program within 24 hours of renewal.

No coverage for job type

Cross-references the job types in your service mix against which certifications your active team members actually hold. If nobody on the team holds every certification a job type requires (water damage needs a water restoration certification, mold needs a mold remediation certification, fire needs a fire restoration certification, and so on), this fires critical: assigning an uncertified technician to that work violates carrier program requirements. The recommendation names the missing certifications and suggests enrolling a technician in that training.

High EMR

Your Experience Modification Rate is the three-year rolling measure carriers use to price your workers' compensation premium and gauge your risk as a program participant. Once your workers' comp policy carries an EMR above 1.0, this fires: a warning above 1.0, escalating to critical at 1.25 or higher, where many carrier programs stop accepting new applicants and some start suspension reviews. The recommendation is to request a loss run from your insurer to identify the two or three incidents actually driving the number, since reducing those specific incident types is the fastest lever you have on EMR. Verinode also records your EMR each month as a trend line behind the scenes, so a rising or falling pattern shows up over time, not just as a single snapshot.

OSHA 300A filing due

A calendar-driven reminder, not a data-triggered one. OSHA Form 300A must be posted in the workplace from February 1 through April 30 each year, and restoration and construction establishments with 20 or more employees must also electronically file it by March 2. This finding runs on a severity ladder tied to the date:

• Mid-to-late January: an informational nudge that posting season is coming.
• Early February: a warning as the March 2 e-file deadline approaches, counting down the days.
• Late February into March 2: critical, the deadline is imminent or just passed. If the deadline has passed, the finding notes that OSHA's per-violation citations for a late or missing 300A start above $16,000, and carries that figure as the estimated exposure.
• March 3 through April 30: back to a warning, reminding you the summary must stay posted through the end of April.
• Outside that window (May through mid-January), no finding fires at all.

How to use it

Start with the Open tips strip for the quick read, then work the decisions grid in order of dollar exposure and how soon the deadline lands. A critical OSHA 300A filing or an expired workers' comp certificate of insurance both have hard, near-term consequences (a citation, a carrier suspension) and should come before a training-compliance gap that is real but slower-moving. Every dollar figure attached to a finding is either a calculated regulatory exposure (like the OSHA penalty schedule) or a genuine estimate grounded in your own data, never a guess dressed up as a number.

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