Closed is a process step, not the answer. The real question is whether the reported hazard stops coming back. If it returns, the report comes back with it, so your team can see whether the fix actually held instead of taking "closed" on faith.
A report gets filed. Nothing comes back. They do it again. Still nothing. Eventually they stop writing the comments that matter, and the best signal you had goes quiet.
The signal this hides: hundreds of records with no response. Not negligence. Just volume that outpaced capacity.
When a corrective action is marked closed, Athena Forms™ keeps reading every new record. If the same hazard shows up again, Athena reads it the same way it read the first, so the recurrence is visible in your data instead of lost in the volume.
What you see: whether the fix held, not just whether a box got checked.
Book a demo and we will show you how a recurring hazard surfaces against the action that was meant to fix it, so your team can act before it becomes an incident.