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# QRG Create an Emergency Contact
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## Purpose
The purpose of this quick reference guide is to step through the process of setting up an Employee’s
Emergency Contact. Emergency Contact records have a dependency that the Employee record is already
created. The intended audience for this document is System Administrators / Standard Users.
## Steps
### Create a new Emergency Contact record
An Emergency Contact record holds the contact details of a person nominated by the Employee.
Create an Emergency Contact record by following the below steps:
1. Go to the **Contacts** object.
2. Click the **New** button.
3. Select the **Emergency Contact** from the available record types. (See Figure 1)
4. Click the **Next** button.
5. Populate the following required fields to provide the base details of the Emergency Contact: (See
Figure 3)
1. **First Name**
2. **Last Name**
3. **Emergency Contact of Employee**
4. **Emergency Contact Relationship**
5. **Account Name**
6. **Phone**
6. Populate the following optional fields to provide additional contact details and description of
the Emergency Contact:
1. **Salutation**
2. **Email**
3. **Description**
Description field is not visible to an Employee if created via the community pages.
7. Click **Save** .
8. A new **Emergency Contact** record has been created and is now related to the appropriate **Contact**
record. (See Figure 3)
Emergency Contact records CAN NOT be deleted if they have related records or are
used in other records. Deleting records is not recommended unless absolutely essential.
9. To modify an existing **Emergency Contact** record, open the required record and select the **Edit**
button available on the top right side of the page. You can also double click in any of the fields that
need editing or just click on the pencil icon that appears within fields when you move your
cursor over the field.
10. When complete, click on the **Save** button.
## Field Descriptions
**Account Name** is the name of the Payment Entity to which the Employee is related.
**Description** is used to add further details for this contact.
**Email** is the email address of the Emergency Contact.
**Emergency Contact of Employee** is the Employee this Emergency Contact is related to.
**Emergency Contact Relationship** is the relationship between the Emergency Contact and the Employee.
**First Name** is the first name of the Emergency Contact.
**Last Name** is the last name of the Emergency Contact.
**Mobile** is the mobile number of the Emergency Contact.
**Phone** is the phone number of the Emergency Contact.
## Further Information
| Document | Document Type | Description |
| ---------------------------- | ----------------- | -------------------------------- |
| Create an Employee - Contact | Task Instructions | How to create an Employee record |