---
title: "Getting started with 4HSE"
url: "https://docs.4hse.com/first-steps"
description: "Your first login, and the two screens 4HSE is built on: the Home and the desktop."
---

# Getting started with 4HSE

4HSE manages workplace safety for one organisation at a time, through a **project**. A project can contain several offices — a logistics hub, a production unit, a construction site — and the office is where safety is managed.

After logging in you land on one of two screens. Both are always available, and you move between them with the **Start** button at the bottom left.

## The Home

[Section titled “The Home”](#the-home)

The Home is a full-screen window: a sidebar on the left, its content on the right.

![The Home](/_astro/first-access-3.BbXhP3Me_Z23zP8Q.webp)

Section

Always present

What it shows

**Dashboard**

yes

the dashboards of the entities you manage, switchable from the toolbar

**Schedule**

yes

the deadlines — see [Scheduler and notifications](/scheduler-and-notifications/)

**Projects** · **Offices** · **People** · **Suppliers** · **Approvals**

depends

the entities you manage

**Multi company**

only if you manage more than one company

the [multi-company panel](/multi-company/)

The Home can be shown and hidden at any time from the **Start** button.

## The desktop

[Section titled “The desktop”](#the-desktop)

The desktop is the other face of 4HSE: a working area with icons, and a taskbar at the bottom.

![The desktop](/_astro/first-access-2.DTFldIC1_Z1nyabl.webp)

Icon

What it opens

**4HSE Docs**

this documentation portal, with the operational guides and the API documentation

**Calendar**

the upcoming and scheduled activities across every project and site you can reach, with filters and export

**Suppliers**

the suppliers you can access — see [Suppliers](/suppliers/)

**Project icons**

one per project: double-click to open it

## The taskbar

[Section titled “The taskbar”](#the-taskbar)

Position

What it holds

**Start**, bottom left

shows or hides the Home, whichever start screen you chose

**User menu**, bottom right

your email, which opens the [account panel](/account-and-preferences/) · [user preferences](/account-and-preferences/start-screen) · task monitoring · log out

**Language menu**

the language of the interface

## Which one opens at startup

[Section titled “Which one opens at startup”](#which-one-opens-at-startup)

It is a personal preference, and you can change it at any time — see [Choose the start screen](/account-and-preferences/start-screen). It changes nothing else: both screens stay reachable.

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