What are Safety Factors?
Concerns on a part can be linked to a safety factor. Safety factors may be mandated by the government or by your company. For example, a loose door handle may fall into a 'minor' safety factor category while an inoperative seat belt would be 'critical'.
For information on assigning a safety factor to a part/concern combination plesae click the link. 
Creating Safety Factors
Select the Attribute tab.
Click Safety Factors.
A list of the existing safety factors is displayed.
Click the add icon (
).
The Safety Factor creation window opens.
Enter a description and code for the safety factor.
Click OK.
The safety factor is added to the list.
Import Safety Factors
Safety factors can be specified in an Excel spreadsheet and then imported directly to the Inspect database.
Create the spreadsheet
Create a new spreadsheet in Excel.
Fill in the safety factor descriptions in the first column and the safety factor codes in the second column.
There must be one safety factor in each row as shown below.
There is no header row.
Save the file with a descriptive name.
Import the spreadsheet
Select the Inspection tab.
Click Safety Factors.
A list of the existing safety factors is displayed.
Click the Import button (
).
The Import Wizard window opens.
Click Next.
Either enter a file path or click the folder icon to locate and open the spreadsheet.
The spreadsheet information is checked to see if it is valid. Invalid data will be highlighted in red.
If required, select the Errors tab to see which data is incorrect.
Errors must be fixed in the original spreadsheet. You can then click the Refresh button (
) in the wizard to re-import the spreadsheet.
Click Next.
If required, disable any items you don't want to import.
Click Next.
Click Finish.
The data is imported to the Inspect database.