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Inspection template in the LeanSuite app

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Construction site daily safety inspection checklist

A construction safety checklist for the daily site walk covers the hazards that change every day on a project: fencing and signs at the boundary, clear walkways, protected excavations and tagged scaffolds, then the work itself, with PPE worn, a safe electrical supply and fire extinguishers in place. This daily inspection has 8 questions and one record per site, ending with the inspector's sign-off.

OSHA 29 CFR 1926.20(b)(2) calls for frequent and regular inspections of job sites by competent persons. In a plant, use it for building work, expansions and shutdown projects where contractors set up their own site inside your fence. The site supervisor or project safety lead walks it before work starts. The failures it is meant to catch: an open trench left without a barrier overnight, a scaffold with no tag, a temporary panel feeding cords across a wet floor, or a crew at a grinder without eye protection because the job was only meant to take a moment.

What it is for, as built: Daily safety inspection of a construction site.

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The full question list

The 8 questions in the inspection

Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A. Each No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, so the finding arrives with its evidence.

Site

  1. 1Fencing and signs are in place
  2. 2Walkways are clear
  3. 3Excavations are protected
  4. 4Scaffolds are tagged

Work

  1. 5PPE is worn
  2. 6Electrical is safe
  3. 7Fire extinguishers are in place
  4. 8Inspector signed

Worked example, illustrative

A filled-in example

One section as it might be filled in on the floor, with every other section of the inspection answered Yes. The place and finding are made up to show how the inspection reads and scores.

Result: fail, 75% against a pass mark of 90

  • 8 questions, all of them count.
  • 2 answered No, so 6 of 8 are Yes: 6 ÷ 8 = 75%.
  • 75% is under 90, so the inspection fails.

What happened next: Site supervisor stopped work near both until barriers were up and the scaffold was inspected and tagged, by mid-morning.

Scored here as one point per question with N/A left out. In the app each answer carries the points set on the template, so change them after you clone it if your plant weighs some checks more.

Construction Site Daily Safety Inspection

Inspection, daily

Site
Expansion project, east yard

Site

  1. Fencing and signs are in placeYes
  2. Walkways are clearYes
  3. Excavations are protectedNo
  4. Scaffolds are taggedNo

    Comment: Trench beside the new footing left open overnight with no barrier. Scaffold at the north wall has no tag on the ladder bay.

    Photo attached to each No

Drawn from this template's own questions, not a screenshot of the app. Illustrative answers.

When to use it

  • Every day, before first use or at the start of the shift.
  • The person responsible for the area or equipment answers each question on the spot.
  • Each record starts with: Site.

How it is scored

The template is built with points per answer and a pass mark of 90. In this library every audit is set to pass at 80 and every inspection at 90. Each submitted inspection shows its score and pass or fail, and every No is flagged with its photo and comment.

Change the points or the pass mark after you clone it. How rules and scoring work.

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FAQ

Construction site daily safety inspection checklist: common questions

  1. Daily, before work starts, per site is how it is built, and on a construction site that is the minimum. Walk it again after a storm or heavy rain, after a scaffold is altered or moved, when a new trade or contractor arrives, after any incident, and at the end of the day on sites with open excavations or temporary power.

  2. The site supervisor or project safety lead, who knows the day's work plan, walks it. They need to recognise a safe excavation, read a scaffold tag, check a temporary panel and its cords, and know which PPE each trade needs. Anything unresolved on the walk goes to the project manager and the contractor's lead before work starts.

  3. A fail means a hazard that can hurt someone today: an open trench, an untagged scaffold, an unsafe temporary supply, a crew without PPE. Stop work in that area and keep people out until it is fixed. Only the inspector who saw it, or the supervisor, clears the area to restart. In this template every No is flagged and asks for a photo and a comment, and an inspection that scores under its pass mark of 90 is a fail.

  4. Keep the site name, date and time, who walked it, each No with a photo, which contractor owns it, and when it was cleared. Daily records on a site build the trail that shows which contractor keeps leaving excavations open or scaffolds untagged, which goes into their next review and the project's lessons learned. In LeanSuite each submitted inspection is stored with its score, its pass or fail, and the photo and comment on every No.

  5. 8 questions in 2 sections: site and work. Every question is answered Yes, No or N/A.

Use this template in LeanSuite

It is ready in the Template Marketplace inside Lean Creator as “Construction Site Daily Safety Inspection”. Clone it into your plant, change any question, then schedule it to a person, role or asset with reminders. Auditors complete it on a phone or tablet, with photo evidence where required.

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