UQSafe Updates Hub
UQSafe is regularly updated with new features, functional enhancements, and product fixes to improve your experience and support safer, more efficient ways of working.
What's new?
Check this page regularly to stay informed about the latest capabilities, enhancements, and system improvements. New features and functionality are released monthly and will be published here as they become available.
Feedback and ideas?
Have a feature request or suggestion for improvement? We'd love to hear from you. Contact the UQSafe team at uqsafe@uq.edu.au to share your ideas for future enhancements.
Pending - August 2026 (3.12.0)
Reporting Module
Product Fix
Fixed an issue where closing a record and editing the Closed Reason text could trigger an error, preventing the record from being closed.
Enhancement
- Tree views are now easier to navigate; clicking a parent node's label expands or collapses it, so you no longer need to target the small chevron icon.
- Management Plan email notifications can now be sent to the Person Affected as a recipient, in addition to the existing Reporter option (if UQ chooses to configure this).
Checklists Module
Product Fix
- Checklist groups and sections without actions no longer appear as blank when using the With Actions filter.
Registers
Product Fix
- Using Search in the Group Task page now includes more than 10 results.
Enhancement
- In My Group Tasks and My Team Tasks, you can now search by Form Name.
- You can now group registers by domain fields, allowing data to be organised into nested groups directly within the register grid based on the fields you select.
Released - July 2026 (3.11.0)
Checklists Module
Product Fix
- You can now open and upload attachments on tasks in My Group Tasks without hitting a security error, provided you have access to the record via your group.
- We’ve trimmed excessive blank space when exporting a checklist to PDF exports to ensure an easier and more compact document
Enhancement
- The Checklist Register now includes Area and Region columns.
- New ‘Save Hierarchy’ option added to location lookup widget to capture hierarchical data where desired. This will ensure that location data can be analysed as a hierarchy (e.g. site → building → floor → room) when enabled
Reporting Module
Product Fix
In position-enabled environments, when a record's Assigned To person changes by position from one user to another, the new assignee can now create a Management Plan for that record.
- Mandatory widgets can no longer be submitted with a null value
Risk Analytics
Feature
- The custom filter search field now returns results while typing.
- Bar, Pie, Line and Donut charts now support drill down across multiple aggregation levels in design mode, view mode and on dashboards.
- When drill down is enabled on a chart, clicking a slice or series now opens an inline menu so you can choose to drill into the next aggregation level or jump straight to the register for that selection.
Enhancements
- New ‘Save Hierarchy’ option added to location lookup widget to capture hierarchical data where desired. This will ensure that location data can be analysed as a hierarchy (e.g. site → building → floor → room) when enabled
- A Lowest Applicable Code and Lowest Applicable Description field is now available when reporting on tree-structured data, displaying the most relevant Business Unit for each record regardless of its level in the hierarchy.
Product Fix
- Clicking through a "Not Specified" chart slice now takes you to a register where the records that have no value for that field.
- Multi-select checkbox values now return in a consistent alphabetical order, so identical selections group into a single row in your reports and visualisations.
- Exporting the register from a Task Data visualisation click-through now returns the correct data.
- Resolved an issue where images attached to records appeared distorted or lower quality in PDF and print exports compared to how they display in Riskware. Exported images now render at the same quality as the web view.
- Task Data visualisations now open the correct task register for every user, even without a reporting line. The opened register applies the visualisation’s filters and shows only those tasks.
- Report results are now consistent when you sort or change filters. The same conditions return the same records regardless of sort order or filter changes.
Audit Trail
Enhancement
Group email activity now logs as a single line in the audit trail
Released - May 2026 (3.10.0)
Checklists Module
Product Fix
- The Conducted and Average Score totals in the checklist register now exclude draft checklists.
Reporting Module
Enhancement
- The Notes button now includes a tooltip and visual cue to indicate that attachments can be added from this menu.
- The invite person lookup now displays the invitee's Business Unit where one is assigned, making it easier to identify staff with the same name.
Risk Analytics
Feature
The custom filter search field now returns results while typing.
Enhancements
- Users can now reset their dashboard to the default configuration from Settings > General.
Product Fix
- Date range fields now display consistent dates in analytics reports, matching the values shown in the register and the record.
- The toggle visibility control in Data Table visualisations no longer obstructs the first record.
- Visualisation counts are now consistent across multiple data layers.
Task Management
Enhancement
Released - April 2026 (3.9.0.1)
Checklists Module
Product Fix
- The Submitted By column now appears correctly in exports from My Checklists and Invited Checklists.
Enhancement
- Administrators can now assign a checklist to all managers in Riskware. A manager is defined as any user who has one or more direct reports.
- A Completed By column is now available in the Checklist register, making it easy to see who completed each checklist and filter records by person.
General
Product Fix
- Date range columns in the register now sort correctly in both ascending and descending order.
Reporting Module
Product Fix
- In Registers the ‘Affected Person' column now sorts alphabetically instead of by 'Person ID’
Enhancement
- An escalation flag now displays on the register for any record where a Management Plan has not been created within the timeframe specified in the workflow's overdue email settings.
Risk Analytics
Enhancements
- Data Table visualisations now include a Flatten Checkbox Values option, allowing checkbox field values to be expanded into individual rows for more detailed analysis.
Product Fix
- Clicking through on a Geo Mapping visualisation now correctly displays the associated records.
Released - March 2026 (3.9.0)
Checklists Module
Product Fix
- The Conducted and Average Score totals in the checklist register now exclude draft checklists.
- Checklist register count and tasks now excludes drafts
General
Product Fix
- Location hierarchy selections are now preserved when editing a record, and no longer reset to the parent location.
- When a record is automatically closed by a workflow, the Actioned By field in the audit log now displays "System" rather than the name of the last task owner.
- Users who enable "Turn off your email notifications during the delegation period" no longer receive email notifications while their delegation is active.
Reporting Module
Product Fix
- The task audit trail now displays in the correct order when printing an incident with the Task Detail option selected.
- The Date Occurred and Logged Date fields now export with consistent times regardless of the viewing user's local time zone.
- The Body Map visualisation now returns data when body location is recorded on the Management Plan.
Risk Analytics
Enhancements
- The Date Modified field is now available when querying Action Plans in Risk Analytics, making it easier to filter, track, and report on recently updated Action Plans.
Product Fix
- Available fields in a visualisation no longer change after opening a Task Data visualisation in the same session.
- Clicking through on a visualisation that uses task fields or nested lookup fields now correctly displays the associated records.
Task Management
Product Fix
- The Form Name column now appears in CSV exports from the task register when it has been added as a visible column.
Released - December 2025 (3.8.1)
Risk Analytics
Visualisations
Enhancements
- Rebuilt query engine: better nested paths, broader hierarchy support (incl. Location), option to include missing values.
- New metrics: Count (distinct), Sum, Average, Min, Max (numeric fields).


- Custom Y-axis titles on Bar/Line/Stacked.

- Checkbox answers render one row per selected value (improves filtering/export).


Data Table
- Array expansion: one row per item (supports multiple arrays).
- Show Unique Values default ON (toggle off for raw rows).
- Future-proof field rendering; accurate row counts on flattened data.
- Infinite scroll replaces pagination.
Fixes
- Existing visualisations can be updated with new data.
- Export = Preview data parity.
- Row counts corrected.
- Top X setting now saves (no more reset to 20).

- Reports no longer merge identical rows—every record displays.
- You can now report on ‘Learnings’ from closed records.
Issues
- Fixed an issue where the some reports failed when filters were applied.
- The register now correctly displays record 'Date' information that use 'Date Ranges'.
Released - December 2025 (3.8.0)
General
Product Fix
- A bug was preventing the help text icon from being displayed consistently displayed on text box widgets. This has been fixed.
- Clear actions were unintentionally getting triggered for some radio widgets when an option was selected that was not associated with a clear action. This has been fixed.
- A bug was preventing users from submitting records if a mandatory field had been hidden. This has been fixed.
Checklists Module
Enhancements
- You can now filter within a Checklist or Inspection record by using a new filter menu item. With this filter, users can now quickly locate responses that have actions assigned or by answer type.
- We’ve included the overall compliance score when printing a checklist.
- You can now re-open closed checklists directly from ‘My Checklists’.

Product Fix
- We’ve trimmed excessive blank space when exporting a checklist to PDF exports to ensure an easier and more compact document.
General
Enhancement
- Each user’s email address is displayed when inviting to help distinguish between users with the same name.

Product Fix
- Inactive users are no longer sent emails because of a delegation.
- Register filter options no longer duplicate after opening Invited incidents from the Notification Centre.
- Addressed a bug preventing some escalation emails from being sent.
Reporting Module
Enhancement
- You can now view and add ‘Confidential Notes’ from a record’s management plan.

Product Fix
- Selecting OK no longer returns an error when saving your ‘Note’ or ‘Confidential Note’
- Users with read only access no longer have access to add notes or attachments.
- Reporters can invite other users to their own records from My Data when enabled by an administrator.

Product Fix
- Totals displayed in the notification centre were sometimes counting records twice. This has been corrected.
- Addressed a bug preventing some management plans from closing when expected. Records will always close immediately if the workflow has been configured to ‘Close when tasks complete’ and there are no outstanding tasks.
Risk Analytics
Product Fix
- Locations are no longer available when building ‘Task Data’ visualisations as tasks do not have locations.
- Clicking through to a register from a visualisation now also applies any additional filters applied by that user.
- Charts now retain the correct stacked format when only displaying a single value.
- You can now export a report multiple times in the same session.
- The Background colour option is available again for Metric Count visualisations.
Tasks Management
Enhancements
- Task exports now include the Assigned To person’s email address.
- Task email templates can now include a link directly to the specific task that opens in ‘My Tasks’.
Product Fix
- CSV exports from a filtered task register now accurately reflect all filters applied.
- Tasks displayed in the register were occasionally showing the wrong module icon. This is fixed.
- ‘My Team’s Tasks’ and ‘My Group’s Tasks’ now consistently display the lowest level Business Unit for the Assigned To person.
