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Run a weekly safety walk with a phone checklist
Build a site inspection checklist on your phone, log findings with photos and get a tidy list of actions after every walk.
When to use it
Weekly site walks, or at each new stage of the build
Step by step
Draft a checklist for this stage
Ask your AI assistant for a starting checklist to adapt.
Prompt to copyDraft a weekly site safety walk checklist for a [project type, e.g. three-storey timber frame build] currently at the [stage, e.g. roofing and first fix] stage in [country]. Group items by area: access and edges, scaffolding and ladders, plant and vehicles, electrics and tools, housekeeping, welfare, fire, PPE, and environmental (dust, noise, spills, waste). For each item write a yes/no/not applicable question. Add a note listing the main official regulations and guidance for this stage that I should check the list against.Check it against the rules
Compare the draft with your country's official regulations and guidance and your company's safety plan, and have your safety adviser review it. Add or remove items as they advise.
Put it on your phone
Build the checklist in Google Forms with a photo upload question for problems, linked to a Google Sheet. Save the form link to your phone's home screen.
Turn findings into actions
After each walk, copy the 'No' answers from the sheet into your AI assistant and ask for an action list with priority, owner and target date to share at the next toolbox talk.
What you get
Walk 12 Mar - 3 issues: 1) Missing toe board, scaffold lift 3 (High, Scaffolder, today). 2) Extension lead across walkway (Medium, Electrician, today). 3) Skip overfull, dust (Low, Site manager, by Fri).
Tips
- The checklist helps you look; it is not a compliance sign-off. Statutory inspections must still be done and recorded by a competent person.
- Photo uploads in Google Forms need people to sign in with a Google account.