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! Type
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| HazardLand| Information about an area affected by a hazard
| Object/Product
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| Hazard reduction activityActivity| Information about an activity , such as efforts to survey, clear, or reduce the threat of a hazard
| Process/Activity
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| Accident
| Information about an accidental event involving a hazard
| Object/Product
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| Victim
| Information about a person injured or affected by a hazardan accident
| Object/Product
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| Quality Management (QM) activity
| Information about an quality-improvement activity, such as an effort to control and monitor the clearance and/or reduction of hazards lands or hazard reduction activities
| Object/Product
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! Subcategory Examples
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| HazardLand
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* Battle area
* UXO spot
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| Hazard reduction activityActivity
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* Clearance
Two fundamental decisions to make when customizing IMSMA<sup>NG</sup> is to decide what country structure level locations will be consistently linked to and what concept locations will represent. Typical concepts that a location is used to represent include:
*a work area (where hazards exist and hazard reductions activities are taking place)
*a community (a group of people affected by the mine/UXO threat)
*the nearest town (the town closest to where the activity is taking place)
<b>Linking</b> refers to the association between items for the purposes of analysis. Linking is optional, for example, when linking clearances to minefields.
IMSMA<sup>NG</sup> provides the capability to assign items to locations and create links between items, a function that shows the relationships between items and processes and that enriches the data collected. Assignments and links are defined during the field report approval process. An item is assigned to one location, which ties the item to the country structure and allows for reporting data by area. The same item can then be linked to as many other items as necessary. In this way, IMSMA<sup>NG</sup> supports the idea of linking hazard reductions activities to hazardslands, victims to accidents or any item to any other item. When used with item subcategories, linking adds a powerful capacity to implement an information workflow and create rich and useful data for decision makers. To ensure the integrity of this data, system administrators must clearly specify the kinds of links to track in IMSMA<sup>NG</sup>.
The example below shows how users can build a workflow of complex relationships among top-level items and item subcategories to model the information management process for their programmes.
The next figure shows how the current view changes with each hazard reduction activity that is linked to the original hazardland. The CHA starts with a status of "Open." When the technical survey is linked to the hazardland, it changes the hazard subcategory landsubcategory to "Minefield." Then, linking the clearance updates the hazard’s land's status to "Worked On." Finally, linking the completion survey changes the hazard’s land's status to "Closed." The result is one hazard land whose information is updated over time by the four hazard reductions activities linked to the hazardland. This way to track information can be used to represent the information management process and status rules accurately for a land release, risk management or other process model.
The IMSMA<sup>NG</sup> information model is flexible enough for each programme to customise the system to support its needs. For example, programmes that do not conduct education activities do not need to complete information about education activities, and they still retain full utility of the system. Similarly, programmes that conduct victim tracking and education activities only can disregard hazards lands and hazard reductions activities without any loss of utility. This flexibility, however, requires that programmes define the relevant uses of each item.
Although any item can be linked to any other item, not all relationships necessarily make sense for every programme. The diagrams below describe some of the more common logical relationships among items and can serve as the basis for an information model when implementing IMSMA<sup>NG</sup>.
The rationale for each relationship or link should also be documented so the meaning is understood. For example, a hazard reduction an activity may be conducted on a hazard land and an accident may be a result of a hazard hazardous land or produce a victim. These relationships are used when entering data to ensure that the links between items are available for searching and reporting, like when searching for all hazards lands that have clearances linked to them.
{{Document|<b>Document the following business rules about assigning and linking:</b>
* which items will have links between them, for example, victims will always be linked to accidents
* rationale or logical meaning of the relationships between items, for example, a link between a clearance and a minefield means that the clearance was conducted on the minefield
* what effects linking has on the items, for example, a link between a clearance and hazard land may indicate that the hazard land status should change from "Open" to "Worked on"
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