Emergency contacts
Person recordWho to ring and on what number. No medical information, ever.
A name and a number
That is what somebody standing in a corridor at two in the morning needs, and it is what this holds. Two contacts, a second number each, and a note if it helps somebody get through.
Nothing medical, and no field for it
No allergies, no conditions, no medication, no doctor, no blood group. Every one of those is health data about a named worker, and this form is built so it cannot start collecting it.
Around it
If something happens at work, the factual record is the injury report. Who is on site is the staff roster.
Contact names and numbers only. It holds no medical information of any kind, no relationship list, no date of birth and no home address. Everything runs on your device.
Questions people ask
- Can I record allergies or a medical condition?
- No, and there is no field for one. An emergency contact form is the single most common place a small employer starts keeping health data by accident. If somebody needs medical information available in an emergency, that is a conversation with them and with a professional — not a browser form.
- Why is there no relationship dropdown?
- Because “spouse”, “partner” and “parent” is a family-relationship taxonomy and a proxy for marital status, and neither is needed to ring somebody. If the relationship genuinely helps, the note box takes words.
- Why no date of birth or address?
- Neither helps you contact anybody in an emergency, and both are identity data worth stealing. The form holds what a person calling actually needs.
- Two people with the same name?
- Two stable ids and two records. Renaming either changes nothing about whose contacts are whose.