Why mark something
Paddl expects things of a business from its venue type and what it knows about each site: a pavement licence where there are tables outside, buildings cover where you own the building, a risk assessment for each area. Sometimes the expectation is wrong for you. The landlord insures the building, or the seating is on your own forecourt. Marking it not applicable takes it off the list without pretending you hold it.
How to mark it
Open the page the item is on, such as Insurance or Licences & permits under Business & legal
Click Doesn't apply on its line (for something recommended, Not for us)
For a site, choose whether it applies to that site only or the whole business
Give the reason, which anyone reading it later will see, and click Mark not applicable
Only owners can mark something not applicable. Managers see the marks and the reasons.
What happens next
The line folds into one quiet "marked not applicable" line under the list. Click it to show the marked items again.
A required item that is marked no longer counts as missing, and the red dot in the sidebar clears.
Paddy is told about the mark in every later analysis and stops raising it.
The mark is kept with who made it, when and why, for an inspector or an auditor.
Putting it back
Show the marked items and click Restore. The item is expected again from that moment. Risk assessments and the Records pages work the same way, with Doesn't apply to us on a missing area or kind of record.
A finding that does not apply
A finding in Paddy's analysis has its own Not applicable, on the finding. Owners and managers can use it, and it takes that one finding off the list in later analyses, without changing what Paddl expects you to hold. See Paddy's analysis.