OHS Appointments

The OHS Appointments register records statutory health and safety appointments — a Section 16(2) appointee, a First Aider, a Fire Marshal, or any similar designated role — together with the training that makes each appointment currently valid.

Statutory OHS appointments are a legal requirement in many jurisdictions, and each one is only valid while the appointee's underlying competency (first-aid certification, fire-marshal training, and so on) hasn't lapsed. Tracking the appointment and its training expiry in one record means the register can show, at a glance, which statutory appointments are still actually backed by current training.

Appointment type and section are both free text rather than a fixed list — this register doesn't constrain them to a predefined set of statutory roles, since the exact appointment types and how "section" is used varies by organisation and jurisdiction. Each appointment carries its own training expiry date, independent of any other register.

The list page shows every appointment with an overdue/due-soon/on-track badge computed from its training expiry date, filterable and sortable by person, training expiry, or when the record was created/updated.

• Person — required. Who holds this appointment.
• Appointment type — required, free text (e.g. "Section 16(2) Appointee", "First Aider", "Fire Marshal").
• Section — required, free text. The department, site or area this appointment covers.
• Training expiry — required. When the underlying competency training lapses.

Saving validates that all four fields are present before submitting.

There's no automatic notification when an appointment's training expiry approaches or passes in the current version of the product — the due-soon/overdue badge on the list page is the mechanism for surfacing it. An appointment record isn't linked to the same person's entries in Training & Certificates by a shared field, even though the underlying competency may also be logged there.

Why aren't appointment types a fixed dropdown list? Statutory appointment structures vary enough between organisations and jurisdictions that the register deliberately leaves both Appointment type and Section as free text rather than assuming one fixed taxonomy.