Pre-start checks with a stop-work decision on them
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.
Part of health & safety in Gaffer, which replaces a folder of last year’s templates with the dates changed.
The H&S paperwork gets done because it lives where the work is.
Risk assessments, method statements, permits, toolbox talks, inspections and registers, covering what an inspector, a main contractor or an insurer will ask for.
Win tenders that demand evidence, and sleep better knowing the file is complete.
Pre-start checklists are one of the 40 things in health & safety. See the rest →
- Weather conditions captured at the point of the check
- PPE checks, site checks and equipment checks recorded separately
- Hazards identified on the day written into the record
- Explicit all-clear decision to proceed
- Stop-work reason and named supervisor where work does not proceed
- Completed by a named person, offline-capable on the mobile app
Step 04 of the job: on site
The engineer taps “On my way” and the customer gets a text with an arrival window. On site: clock in, photos, the certificate for the job — EICR, Gas Safety, whatever the trade needs — signed on the device. No signal? It syncs later.
Health & Safety is where pre-start checklists sits, and that is the step it shows up in most. The rest of the job — quoting, scheduling, certificates, invoicing and payment — runs in the same system, on the same record. See the whole job →
What are pre-start checklists for?
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. The point of a pre-start check is that it can stop the job.
Will this satisfy a main contractor asking for RAMS?
It produces the document they ask for, specific to the job rather than last year’s with the address changed, as a PDF you can send before you arrive. Their pre-qualification questions are their own, but the evidence is in one place.
Do the assessments have to be filled in on site?
That is the point of them, and the app is built for it — but they can be prepared in the office and signed on site, which is how most crews actually work.
Which plan is it on?
Every paid plan. Pre-start checklists is included for unlimited users at no extra cost — the monthly, annual and lifetime plans differ only in how you pay.
The rest of Health & Safety
All 40 →- Record accidents and near misses the same day
- Describe the job, get a RAMS first draft
- An asbestos register scored by priority risk
- Calibration records that keep your readings defensible
- Confined space permits with the gas readings on the permit
- The induction register a principal contractor asks for
- One COSHH assessment per substance, with review dates
- DSE assessments for the people who are not on the tools
- An environmental aspects register that scores significance
- Statutory equipment inspections against the right regulation
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