RQTH tracking: two opposing requirements, to be met at the same time
Disabled worker status raises a problem that few tools handle properly. The information must be tracked accurately, because it has concrete consequences, and strictly protected, because it is health data. Many companies end up taking it out of the system and keeping it in a separate spreadsheet, which solves confidentiality while creating every other problem.
Why a separate spreadsheet is a false solution
A separate spreadsheet feels protective, but it sits outside the system's access rules, with no access log, often on a single computer or a shared drive. It is updated only by the person who keeps it, and it disappears with them.
Above all, it connects to nothing. Renewal deadlines trigger no reminder, agreed adjustments do not follow the employee when they change jobs, and the link with medical follow-up is lost.
Confidentiality is handled through access rights, not separation
The right answer is not to take the data out of the system, but to restrict who can see it inside. Access is set by authorisation profile, field by field: the authorised HR team tracks the information, the manager does not see it, and it does not appear in team views.
Shared documents also have an access log, so you know who opened what. A shared spreadsheet offers none of these guarantees.
What tracking makes possible in practice
A recognition has a period of validity: held in the file, it is tracked like any other deadline. Agreed workplace adjustments are attached to the employee and their job, which makes them lasting rather than rebuilt at every change of role or manager.
The link with medical follow-up and with the specific equipment provided completes the picture. The goal is not to produce a dashboard, but to make sure the adjustment agreed two years ago is still applied today.
Key takeaways
- A separate spreadsheet looks protective and creates every other problem.
- Confidentiality is handled through access rights, field by field.
- The data does not appear in the views available to managers.
- Renewal deadlines are tracked like the other deadlines in the file.
- Adjustments follow the employee, including when they change jobs.
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