Statutory Inspections¶
What this is¶
Statutory Inspections records statutory inspection and check EVENTS carried out on a project — a record that is deliberately separate from Delivery Documents (compliance document metadata, such as a permit or RAMS record), H&S Inspections (general health & safety inspection activity), and Plant & Equipment deployments (physical site presence), even though all four can look similar at a glance. Each Statutory Inspection record is the fact that an inspection or check actually took place, on a given date, with a recorded outcome.
Who can use it¶
Any authenticated user with access to the project — including the Client role, not just Admin/Super Admin — can record Statutory Inspections.
Where to find it¶
Project → Health & Safety → Statutory Inspections.
Plant-linked and non-plant subjects¶
A Statutory Inspection can optionally link to a Plant & Equipment item (e.g. a Tower Crane's lifting equipment inspection), or stand alone for a non-plant subject (e.g. a scaffold inspection, a temporary works inspection, or another site statutory check). SureSign never creates a fake Plant & Equipment record for a non-plant subject — the Subject Description field always identifies what was inspected, whether or not a Plant & Equipment link is also present.
Even when a Plant & Equipment link is supplied, the Subject Description remains its own explicit, independently recorded description — useful because the linked item may later be renamed or removed from the register; the historical record of what was inspected is never lost.
What you can record¶
- Inspection Date (required — the date the inspection/check actually occurred)
- Inspection Type (required free text — e.g. Lifting Equipment Inspection, Scaffold Inspection, Temporary Works Inspection)
- Subject Description (required — identifies what was inspected)
- Plant / Equipment (optional link to an existing Plant & Equipment item)
- Reference (optional — a certificate or internal reference number)
- Outcome — Satisfactory or Issues Found
- Status — Open or Closed
- Notes (optional)
- Next Due Date (optional)
- Evidence — a certificate, check sheet, or photograph
Outcome and status are independent¶
Outcome describes what the inspection found. Status describes whether the record's own follow-up is still open. These are two separate facts, always shown and tracked separately — an inspection can find issues and still be marked Closed once the follow-up has been dealt with, and an inspection can be Satisfactory and remain Open pending sign-off. SureSign never derives one from the other.
No automatic compliance conclusion¶
A recorded outcome of Satisfactory does not automatically mean the equipment or site is legally compliant, certified, safe for all purposes, or compliant with every statutory obligation. Likewise, Issues Found does not automatically mean the equipment or site is legally prohibited from use. SureSign presents the recorded facts only.
Next Due Date is a recorded fact, not a calculation¶
Next Due Date is an explicitly recorded date only — SureSign never calculates statutory inspection frequency (for example under LOLER, PUWER, or any scaffold or jurisdiction-specific rule) automatically, and never derives an "overdue" or "non-compliant" state from it. Where shown, it is always presented as a plain recorded date.
What this is not¶
Statutory Inspections is not a Delivery Document, an H&S Inspection, or a Plant & Equipment deployment — those remain separate modules with their own separate records. A Delivery Document (including a permit, RAMS, or temporary works record) never creates a Statutory Inspection record, and a Plant & Equipment deployment or evidence attachment never creates one either.
Friday Packs¶
Statutory Inspections feeds the Friday Pack's Permits / Statutory Inspections section automatically — every inspection recorded within a Friday Pack's Monday to Friday reporting week appears there, with outcome, status, and (where linked) the plant item's name and identifier shown exactly as they were at the time the pack was generated. See Friday Packs.