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title: Managing safety actions in the Action planner
description: The Action planner sidebar panel in the Health and Safety Workspace enables safety teams to manage actions directly from a Health and Safety record, without navigating away from the page.
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product: Health and Safety Core
classification: health-and-safety-core
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-06-01"
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# Managing safety actions in the Action planner

The Action planner sidebar panel in the Health and Safety Workspace enables safety teams to manage actions directly from a Health and Safety record, without navigating away from the page.

\[Omitted image "health-safety-action-planner-example.png"\] Alt text: Risk assessment form with the Action planner panel open.

## What you can do with the Action planner

-   View all actions associated with the current record.
-   Create and edit actions inline.
-   Search, filter, and sort actions by type, state, or priority.
-   When the ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety application \(sn\_hs\_gen\_ai\) is installed, generate AI-suggested actions based on the record's description and similar historical records.

## Accessing the Action planner

The Action planner is available on any Health and Safety record that has an **Actions** tab and is visible to users with the Safety action writer \(sn\_ohs\_im.action\_writer\) role. To open the Action planner for a Health and Safety record,

1.  In the **Health and Safety Workspace**, open a safety record such as safety incident or risk assessment.
2.  Select the Action Planner icon \(\[Omitted image "health-safety-action-planner.png"\] Alt text: Action Planner icon\) from the contextual sidebar panel.

## Suggested actions availability

The **Suggest new actions** button and the **Suggested actions** section appear only when the ServiceNow Otto for Health and Safety application \(sn\_hs\_gen\_ai\) is installed on your instance. For more information, see [Generate and manage AI‑suggested safety actions in Action planner](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/now-assist-for-health-and-safety/now-assist-hs-generate-ai-suggested-actions-in-action-planner.md).

-   **[Create and manage a safety action in the Action planner](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-core/hs-create-action-in-action-planner.md)**  
Create and manage safety actions in context while reviewing a Health and Safety record, without opening a separate Action form.

**Parent Topic:**[Using Health and Safety Core](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-core/using-hs-core.md)