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title: Associate an asset with a safety incident
description: Associate an enterprise asset with a safety incident.
locale: en-US
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release: australia
product: Health and Safety Incident Management
classification: health-and-safety-incident-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Work on a safety incident, Manage incidents and observations, Manage, Health and Safety Incident Management, Health and Safety, Employee Service Management]
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# Associate an asset with a safety incident

Associate an enterprise asset with a safety incident.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn\_ohs\_im.manager, sn\_ohs\_im.agent, or sn\_ohs\_im.operations\_manager

## About this task

Add all the assets that are involved in an incident.

**Note:** The assets can be associated only when the Expanded Model and Asset Classes \[sn\_ent\] application is installed. For more information, see [Additional features in Health and Safety](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-incident-management/install-hs-incident-mgmt.md)

## Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Health and Safety** > **Health and Safety Workspace**.

2.  Click the incident management icon \(\[Omitted image "list-icon-hs.png"\] Alt text: Incident Management icon.\) and navigate to the **Lists** tab.

3.  In the **Safety Incidents** list, open a safety incident assigned to you to which you want to associate the asset.

4.  Select the **Report an incident** tab.

    The incident playbook opens.

5.  Navigate to the **Add assets** stage and then **Add assets involved** activity.

6.  In the Add asset involved section, fill in the fields.

    1.  In the **Asset** field, select the asset that was involved.

        The fields related to the selected asset are auto-populated from the asset record.

    2.  In the **Asset involvement** field, enter the type of its involvement.

7.  Click **Save**.

8.  If required, add more assets that are involved in this incident.


## Result

The selected asset is listed in the Assets involved section of the activity. It also appears in the Assets involved section in the **Incident Overview** tab.

## What to do next

Add a root cause analysis to perform root cause analysis for this incident.

**Parent Topic:**[Work on a safety incident](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-incident-management/work-hs-incident-observation.md)