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title: Understanding ‘Tasks’ in the Safety Matters App
description: "As mentioned previously, there are two main facets of incident prevention in safety management- routine and ad hoc inspections. Encountering a safety problem during a routine inspection is called identifying a *deficiency*. When there is a safety problem that becomes…"
url: "https://docs.safetymatters.io/docs/understanding-tasks-in-the-safety-matters-app/"
updated: "2024-06-08"
category: Tasks
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# Understanding ‘Tasks’ in the Safety Matters App

As mentioned previously, there are two main facets of incident prevention in safety management- routine and ad hoc inspections. Encountering a safety problem during a routine inspection is called identifying a *deficiency*. When there is a safety problem that becomes apparent during an ad hoc inspection, it is called an *issue*.

**What is a 'task' in the Safety Matters app?**
After deficiencies and issues are identified and recorded during inspections using the Safety Matters app, they can be assigned by someone in management to a specific staff user as a **task**. The task can either be added to the staff user's task list or may exist in the system as a standalone task. The task may also be reassigned to a different user(s) until fully resolved.