Health & Safety
The point of a pre-start check is that it can stop the job. Gaffer's checklist covers PPE, site conditions and equipment, records the weather and any hazards identified, and ends with an explicit all-clear — or a stop-work reason and the supervisor who was told.
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One checklist per job start, completed on site, ending in a decision rather than a signature.
The checklist finishes with an all-clear flag. If it is not clear, a stop-work reason is recorded — so 'we had concerns' becomes a documented decision.
Weather conditions and hazards identified are captured at the time, which is what makes the record meaningful for work that is weather-dependent.
Where work stops, the supervisor is named on the record, so the escalation is evidenced rather than described.
Pre-start checklists sit with your jobs, RAMS and toolbox talks in the same platform.
A risk assessment covers the task in general and is written in advance. A pre-start check tests whether today's actual conditions match what the assessment assumed — the weather, the site, the kit and the people who turned up.
Because stopping work is the correct outcome sometimes, and a business that can evidence it stopped work for a documented reason is in a very different position from one that cannot show why a job was delayed.
That is your call, and it usually depends on the risk profile of the work. Many businesses use them for site work, work at height and anything weather-dependent, and skip them for routine domestic callouts.
Yes. Pre-start checks happen at the start of the day on site, which is exactly where signal is least reliable, so they are captured on the device and synced later.
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