---
title: "Your first office and your first people"
url: "https://docs.4hse.com/first-steps/first-office-and-people"
description: "Set up a project from empty: create an office, register the workers, and understand what you have built."
---

# Your first office and your first people

In this tutorial you take an empty project and give it the minimum it needs to be useful: one office and the people who work there. At the end you will have a structure everything else can hang off.

## Before you start

[Section titled “Before you start”](#before-you-start)

You need a project: an administrator creates it from the [multi-company panel](/multi-company/create-a-project), or 4HSE creates it when your subscription is activated — see [Where a project comes from](/multi-company/project-types).

## 1\. Create the office

[Section titled “1. Create the office”](#1-create-the-office)

Open the project and go to **Offices**.

Click **New**, fill in the fields and save. You now have a site: a plant, a warehouse, a branch, according to what your organisation has.

## 2\. Choose what the list shows

[Section titled “2. Choose what the list shows”](#2-choose-what-the-list-shows)

Right-click the grid header and pick the columns you want to see.

This looks cosmetic and is not: **only the displayed data is exported**, so the columns you choose here decide what a CSV export will contain. Getting it right now saves redoing the export later — see [Add an office](/company-offices-and-workers/add-an-office).

## 3\. Register the people

[Section titled “3. Register the people”](#3-register-the-people)

Go to **People** and click **New** for each worker: personal data, then save.

Internal and external people both go here. What makes someone “external” is not where they are registered but what they are linked to.

If you already have the list in a spreadsheet, import it instead of typing: [Import a list from CSV](/copy-templates-and-import/import-a-list).

## 4\. Look at what you have built

[Section titled “4. Look at what you have built”](#4-look-at-what-you-have-built)

Select a person. The tabs of their record are all empty, and that is correct — they are the slots the rest of the work will fill: work phases, jobs, actions, events, attachments. See [The tabs of a person](/company-offices-and-workers/add-a-person#the-tabs-of-a-person).

## What you have achieved

[Section titled “What you have achieved”](#what-you-have-achieved)

A project with a site and its workers: the skeleton. Nothing is being tracked yet, because nothing has been assigned.

The next step is to make one worker compliant, the shortest path through the whole product: [Get a worker compliant](/first-steps/get-a-worker-compliant).

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