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title: "Worker groups"
url: "https://docs.4hse.com/worker-groups"
description: "Jobs and homogeneous groups: what they group, why they are managed like work phases and how they connect to the risk assessment."
---

# Worker groups

A worker is not managed only as an individual: they do a job and share exposures with their colleagues. 4HSE represents these groupings in two ways.

-   A **job** is a person’s professional role: _forklift driver_, _welder_, _office clerk_.
-   A **homogeneous group** brings together workers exposed to similar risks, whatever their job: for example everyone working in the paint shop.

Jobs and homogeneous groups belong to an **office**, and are found in the office’s **Human resources** menu. A person can belong to several jobs and several homogeneous groups.

They are not the same as permission groups, which decide what a user can do in 4HSE (see [The permission system](/users-and-permissions/)), nor as the units of the company organization chart, which describe the company’s departments (see [Company, offices and workers](/company-offices-and-workers/#the-company-organization-chart)).

## They are managed like work phases

[Section titled “They are managed like work phases”](#they-are-managed-like-work-phases)

For 4HSE, jobs and homogeneous groups are the same kind of object as work phases: they have the same fields and the same tabs, and are created in the same way. Work phases, however, describe activities rather than workers, and are documented in [Risk assessment](/risk-assessment/).

## The risk aggregator decides where the assessment happens

[Section titled “The risk aggregator decides where the assessment happens”](#the-risk-aggregator-decides-where-the-assessment-happens)

Work phases, jobs and homogeneous groups can all hold risks, but in a project the assessment takes place on only one of the three: the one chosen as [risk aggregator](/risk-assessment/risk-aggregators). Only that type has the **Dangers**, **Risks** and **Actions** tabs. If the aggregator is the job, risks are assessed on jobs; work phases and homogeneous groups remain groupings of people and resources.

In a person’s record, the risks listed are those of every group they belong to.

## Required actions become suggestions

[Section titled “Required actions become suggestions”](#required-actions-become-suggestions)

On the aggregator, the **Actions** tab lists the prevention actions the group requires: a course, a medical examination, a PPE item. 4HSE does not enrol the group’s members in these actions automatically: it proposes the enrolments as **suggestions**, on the dashboards and in the **Suggestions** tab of the [scheduler](/scheduler-and-notifications/). The suggestions are updated when the required actions or the people in the group change.

## Procedures

[Section titled “Procedures”](#procedures)

-   [Create a job or a homogeneous group](/worker-groups/create-a-group)
-   [Assign people to a job or a homogeneous group](/worker-groups/assign-people)

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