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title: Monitor safety audit progress and outcomes at a glance
description: Use the Overview tab in a Health and Safety audit to quickly assess the audit completion status and outstanding items.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/employee-service-management/health-and-safety-risk-management/hs-view-safety-audit-progress.html
release: australia
product: Health and Safety Risk Management
classification: health-and-safety-risk-management
topic_type: task
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Create and manage a safety audit, Safety inspections and audits, Use, Health and Safety Risk Management, Health and Safety, Employee Service Management]
---

# Monitor safety audit progress and outcomes at a glance

Use the **Overview** tab in a Health and Safety audit to quickly assess the audit completion status and outstanding items.

## Before you begin

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

## About this task

The **Overview** tab provides a quick and real-time visual summary of audit progress. It shows objective completion on a timeline, the distribution of objectives, items for review, and findings by state, and an overall compliance rating for the audit.

\[Omitted image "hs-audit-overview.png"\] Alt text: Overview tab showing the audit progress via Audit timeline, Objectives, Items for review, and Compliance cards.

## 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** and open the audit record.

4.  Select the **Overview** tab.

    The tab displays cards that summarize the audit status.

5.  Apply the **Date range** and **Location** filters to refine the data shown on cards.

    Filters apply to all cards simultaneously.

6.  Review the audit progress and metrics using the following data visualizations.

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Card

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Audit timeline

</td><td>

Audit timeline that runs from the audit start date to the audit end date.Audit objectives are distributed across this audit period and appear as icons on the timeline:

-   Select **Show legend** to understand timeline indicators.
-   Select an indicator icon on the timeline to open the corresponding objective record.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Objectives

</td><td>

Breakdown of objectives by state.-   The number inside the donut chart shows the total objective count.
-   Select a segment to drill down to a list of objectives filtered by that state.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Items for review

</td><td>

Breakdown of review items by type.-   The number inside the chart shows the total count.
-   Select a segment to drill down to a filtered list of items in that type.


</td></tr><tr><td>

Compliance

</td><td>

Percentage of audit compliance ratings based on findings. -   The percentage inside the chart shows the overall compliance rating for the audit.
-   Select a compliance rating to drill down to a list of findings filtered by that rating.


</td></tr></tbody>
</table>
**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)