Equipment inspection record
Field recordThe plant on site today, the reading on each meter, and what the person who looked at it found.
The plant on site changes every week
A hired scissor lift is on the job for nine days and then it is somebody else's problem. A dated sheet of what was on site, what the meters read and what the person who looked at it found is the record that survives that — and it is the one people are asked for months later.
It publishes no inspection list
There is no check list, no frequency, no threshold and no pass mark anywhere in this tool. Those belong to the manufacturer, to your program and to your regulator. What the tool holds is what somebody observed, on a date, with their name on it.
Around it
Who was on site and what they did is the manpower & equipment log. A condition worth flagging is the safety observation log, and a machine that needs work is a work order.
A record of what somebody observed. It publishes no inspection list, frequency, threshold or pass mark, invents no manufacturer or regulatory requirement, and does not decide whether any machine is fit for use. Everything runs on your device.
Questions people ask
- What has to be checked on a machine, and how often?
- This tool does not say, and will not. What gets inspected on a piece of plant, at what interval and by whom comes from the manufacturer's manual, from your own program and from whatever regulator applies to your work. Publishing a list here would be inventing a requirement — and an inspection record built on an invented requirement is worse than none.
- Why is there no pass or fail?
- Because the honest options are narrower than that. The record says the machine was checked and nothing was found, checked and defects were noted, or not checked today — and there is a free-text box for what was actually seen. Whether a defect takes a machine out of service is a decision somebody makes, and the sheet records that they made it.
- Should I use this or the forklift checklist?
- The forklift tool keeps a standing register of your trucks and builds a history against each one, which is right for a fleet you own and operate in a building. This is a dated site sheet: the plant on a job changes weekly, half of it is hired, and what matters is what was on site that day.
- Does an hour meter reading do anything?
- It is recorded, and nothing else. No service interval is calculated from it, no due date is derived and no maintenance is scheduled. It is on the sheet because it is the number that dates everything else on the row.