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title: Submit a safety audit, finding, or action for approval
description: When completed, submit the safety audit, finding, or action for approval and start the approval workflow.
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release: australia
product: Health and Safety Risk Management
classification: health-and-safety-risk-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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breadcrumb: [Create and manage a safety audit, Safety inspections and audits, Use, Health and Safety Risk Management, Health and Safety, Employee Service Management]
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# Submit a safety audit, finding, or action for approval

When completed, submit the safety audit, finding, or action for approval and start the approval workflow.

## Before you begin

Before you can submit for approval, you must add at least one person to the **People involved** list and select the appropriate approver option.

-   **Findings approver** to approve audit findings
-   **Actions approver** to approve audit actions
-   **Audit approver** or **Results approver** to approve the safety audit

For more information, see [Add people involved in a safety audit](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-add-people-involved-safety-audit.md).

Role required: sn\_hs\_rm.safety\_audit\_manager or sn\_hs\_rm.safety\_audit\_writer

## About this task

States of a record when submitted for approval:

|State|Description|
|-----|-----------|
|Pending approval|Record has been submitted and is awaiting a response from all approvers.|
|Approved|All approvers have approved the record.|
|Rejected|At least one approver has rejected the record.|

## Procedure

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

2.  Select the risk management icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-risk-assessment.png"\] Alt text: Risk assessment icon\).

3.  In the **Audits** list, select **All**.

4.  Submit an audit for approval.

    1.  Select the audit that you want to submit.

    2.  Ensure that all changes are saved and select **Submit for approval**.

        This button is available only when the audit state is New or Work In Progress.

        All people involved who are marked as **Audit approver** or **Results approver** receive an approval request.

5.  Submit a finding for approval.

    1.  Select the required audit.

    2.  In the **Findings** tab, select a finding you want to submit.

        Alternatively, open a finding from the **Findings** tab within an item for review.

    3.  Select **Submit for approval**.

        People involved in this audit who are marked as **Findings approver** receive an approval request.

6.  Submit an action for approval.

    1.  Select the required audit.

    2.  In the **Actions** tab, open an action you want to submit.

    3.  Select **Submit for approval**.

        People involved in this audit who are marked as **Actions approver** receive an approval request.


## Result

-   The submitted audit, finding, or action's state changes to Pending approval.
-   The approvers are listed in the **Approvers** tab of the record.
-   All approvers receive an approval request for the submitted record.

## What to do next

The approvers can respond to the submitted record from the Employee Center.

-   When all approvers respond, the state of the submitted record updates to Approved or Rejected and the **Close audit** button appears for it.
-   Select **Close audit** to complete and close the audit. If all objectives in this audit are complete, the audit moves to the Closed complete state.

**Parent Topic:**[Create and manage a safety audit](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-create-manage-safety-audit-workspace.md)