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Overview — Why a Save Button Stays Grey NSCAT validates forms as you type and keeps the save button disabled until everything passes. When a button will not enable and nothing looks obviously wrong, one of the rules on this page is the reason. This is a refere...

Overview — Start Here Most NSCAT support questions come down to one of five things. Work through these before digging deeper: 1.      Is it a role problem? Admin roles and activity assignments are separate — see Roles & Access Control. 2.      Is the activity ...

Overview — Finding Your Way Around Everything in NSCAT is reached from the left sidebar. It lists the activities you have access to, and expanding one reveals everything inside it. There is no separate "home" screen to learn — the sidebar is the navigation. GO...

Overview — The Survey Composer The Composer is where you assemble the activity's survey: its title, its expiry date, the questions it asks, and the wording that opens and closes it. Open it from the activity's menu under Survey → Composer. If the activity has ...

Overview — Getting the Survey to People Once your survey is built and previewed, you distribute it by link. Respondents need no NSCAT account and no sign-in. GOOD TO KNOW  For paper-based collection, see Hard Copy Surveys. Both routes feed the same reports. Sh...

Overview — Collecting on Paper Not everyone can answer a survey online. NSCAT supports paper with a hard copy route that ends up in the same reports as online responses. Three steps, in order: 1.      Download Doc Format — get the survey as a document you can ...

Overview — Coding the Comments Survey Responses is where you work through what respondents wrote and turn it into something analysable. Ratings from the survey are already counted for you; comments are not. Open it from Survey → Responses. It needs survey read...

Overview — Two Halves of an Interview An interview in NSCAT has two parts, and they are separate pages: ·        Composer — the question set. What you will ask. ·        Response — the record. What you were told. GOOD TO KNOW  Interview questions are open ques...

Overview — Group Conversations A focus group records a group discussion rather than a one-to-one conversation. It works almost exactly like an interview: a Composer for the question set, and a Response for what the group said. An activity can hold many focus g...

Overview — Recording What You Found An observation is a single finding: something you saw, heard, or read that says something about the safety culture being assessed. Observations are the raw material of the assessment — recommendations are written from them, ...

Overview — Deletion Is Recoverable, Recovery Is Not Universal When someone deletes an observation it is not removed from the database. It is flagged as deleted, stamped with who deleted it, when, and why, and taken out of every active list, report, and export....

Overview — When NSCAT Cannot Reach Its Database NSCAT's API exposes a health endpoint that checks whether the application can reach its database. Where it cannot, the response now names the most likely cause explicitly rather than returning a generic failure: ...

Overview — What Saves Itself and What Does Not Several pages in NSCAT now save your work as you go. About two seconds after you stop typing, whatever you have entered is sent to the server without you clicking anything. A small chip beside the page title tells...

Overview — Turning Findings Into Actions A recommendation is what the assessment says should be done. Where an observation records what you found, a recommendation states the problem it represents, the consequences of leaving it, the evidence behind it, and th...

Overview — Attaching the Proof A recommendation is only as strong as what supports it. The Evidence section on a recommendation is where you gather the interview answers, survey comments, and observations that make the case — and mark which of them matter most...