Ensuring the safety of employees is critical for electric utilities. Hazard Reporting Collector is designed to be used to collect hazards using a mobile device. Follow the steps below to understand the software/application requirements and learn to collect a hazard using a mobile device and ArcGIS Collector.
Software Requirements
To use Hazard Reporting Collector requires specific software and applications for each field technician in your organization. Below is the software required:
- ArcGIS account
- ArcGIS Collector
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Once you have verified that the device you will be using includes the required software and have access to your ArcGIS organization, you can use the Hazard Reporting Collector map to collect hazard in the field.
To collect a hazard in the field, complete the following steps:
- Open Collector for ArcGIS and sign in using your ArcGIS organizational account.
- Once signed in, you will be presented with all the maps that you have access to. Search for hazard to find the Hazard Reporting Collector map.
- Select the Hazard Reporting Collector map's thumbnail to open it. If you have enabled location services, the map will open to your current location.
- Collect a new feature, selecting the hazard editing template.
- Update the attributes of the hazard.
- Browse to the map and add the location of the asset on the map. If location services is enabled, you can use your current location as the geometry of the asset. You can also add the asset's location by tapping the point on the map.
- When you have finished recording the hazard's attributes and geometry, click Submit.