Objectives & Targets

Objectives & Targets records the SHEQ objectives your organisation has set — a Safety, Health, Environment or Quality goal, what target it's measured against, and how progress toward it is going.

A management system built entirely around reacting to incidents and non-conformances never shows whether things are actually improving. Objectives give a forward-looking counterpart: a stated target, an owner accountable for it, a target date, and an explicit status so drift is visible before the target date arrives rather than only being discovered when it's missed.

Each objective belongs to one of four categories — Safety, Health, Environment, Quality — and carries a free-text target and current-progress note alongside a status of on-track, at-risk, or off-track. There is no computed logic behind the status; it's a direct judgement call entered by the owner, updated as progress is reviewed.

The list page shows every objective with its category, status and target date, filterable and sortable by any of those. The detail page shows the full record; create and edit forms share the same fields.

• Objective — required. What the objective is.
• Category — required. One of Safety, Health, Environment, Quality.
• Target — required. What "achieved" looks like for this objective.
• Current progress — optional free text describing where things stand right now.
• Owner — required. Who is accountable for this objective.
• Target date — required. When the objective should be met by.
• Status — one of on-track, at-risk, off-track. Defaults to on-track for a new objective.

Objectives are commonly discussed and updated as part of a Management Review meeting, though the two registers aren't linked by a data relationship — a management review's "inputs reviewed" and "decisions/actions" fields are free text, so referencing an objective there is a matter of writing it into those fields, not a relational link.