Lesson 7 of 13 · 3 min video
Read the results and choose the right report
A number on its own can start a debate. Here you'll learn how a few seconds with the video turn a score into a sentence somebody can act on, and how to pick the report that suits whoever is going to read it.
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What you'll be able to do
Read the score and grade together, scrub the video against the graphs to find and name the movement behind a peak score, use the key contributing factors as a map, and choose the right report — Summary, Detailed, Task demands or Combine — for the recipient.
- 01Read the Consequential Risk Score and its grade together — the score for comparing tasks, the grade for communicating risk.Taught in The score and the grade
- 02Scrub the video against the neck, back and arms graphs to find and name the movement behind a peak score.Taught in Finding the moment
- 03Use the key contributing factors to decide which graph to scrub first.Taught in Contributing factors
- 04Choose among Summary assessment, Detailed assessment, Task demands and Combine reports by recipient, and export the result as a PDF.Taught in The four reports, Combine and export
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Chapter 1 · 0:00
The score and the grade
Open the assessment. The number is the Consequential Risk Score, and next to it is its grade.
The app shows them side by side, and it helps to read them together, because they answer different questions.
The score is for comparing
It's a continuous number, so it ranks tasks against each other and shows movement between a before and an after. Use it when you're deciding where to spend effort.
The grade is for communicating
It puts the score into a named band. Use it when you're explaining the result to someone who doesn't work with Etiscope day to day.
The grade on its own doesn't have the resolution you need to prioritise, and the score on its own can be hard for a supervisor to interpret. Together, they give you both.
Chapter 2 · 0:20
Finding the moment
The score tells you how much. The video tells you why.
The video player and the three graphs — neck, back, arms — share one timeline. Drag the scrubber until the cursor line sits on the tallest peak in the back graph, and the video shows the exact moment that produced it. The video and the graphs both follow the scrubber.
Play a few seconds either side and watch what the worker is actually doing. That movement, at that shelf, with that load, is what the number is made of.
It's worth doing this before you quote a score to anyone. A score on its own invites debate about the number, while a score with the movement behind it moves the conversation to the shelf height — the thing that can actually change.
Scrub, watch, name the movement. You'll use this skill more than any other: when you choose where to act, when you justify a control, and when you check whether the control worked.
Chapter 3 · 1:14
Contributing factors
Below the score, the key contributing factors name what loaded the score most — which body region, and which kind of movement.
Use them as your map. With three graphs and a two-minute capture there are a lot of peaks to choose between, and the contributing factors tell you which graph to scrub first, so you find the moment that matters rather than the first bump you land on.
Chapter 4 · 1:27
The four reports
When someone needs this on paper, the Reports menu has four options. Rather than four levels of detail, think of them as suited to four different readers.
Summary assessment
One page: score, body diagram, graphs and key factors. Right for a supervisor, or a toolbox talk.
Detailed assessment
Four pages, with the physical demands and per-movement detail. Right for the safety team or an ergonomist.
Task demands
Describes the physical demands of the task across a working day. It's used well beyond safety — in return-to-work and recruitment — under your organisation's own process for those decisions.
Combine reports
Assembles selected pages into one document when someone needs a custom set.
Match the report to the reader. If someone asked for a one-pager, the four-page detailed report usually means less of it gets read, not more.
Chapter 5 · 2:09
Combine and export
To build a custom set, open Combine reports. Switch on the pages you want — they all start switched off — drag them into order, and generate.
Whichever report you pick, it exports as a PDF through the standard share sheet. AirDrop it, email it, or file it into your own systems.
The right report, to the right person, with the movement behind it — that's a result read well.
Mistakes that matter
- Quoting the score without looking at the movement. Showing the movement gives people something they can check for themselves, rather than a number they can only accept or reject.
- Sending the four-page detailed report when a one-pager was wanted. Choose the report for the person reading it, however thorough the assessment.
Not covered here
- Finding and managing records across the whole organisation in the dashboard — lesson 8, Review assessments in the dashboard
- Deciding which of these results actually deserves action — lesson 9, Decide where to act: triage and evidence
- Creating a risk control once you have decided — lesson 10, Create and track risk controls