Construction Site Weekly Inspection

Who this is for

The weekly walk round a site, recorded line by line. Every point gets a result, the action goes to a named trade with a date, and a repeat column marks anything that was raised on an earlier week and is still there.

Site managers, foremen, project managers and safety advisers running small and medium sites, and the principal contractor who has to show a run of weekly rounds at the end of the job.

What this helps you track

• What the weekly walk covered and what it found, week by week
• Which trade or subcontractor owns each action and when it is due
• Which findings are repeats of an earlier week rather than something new
• How many actions each week's round raised across the whole job

How to use it

1. Fill in the site, the principal contractor, the week ending date and who walked it.
2. Work the prefilled points in the order you walk the site and add your own lines for what it does not cover.
3. Mark each point satisfactory, action needed or not applicable, and write the finding plainly.
4. Name the trade or subcontractor responsible and give the action a date.
5. Tick the repeat column where the same finding appeared on a previous week's sheet.
6. Sign the round, issue the actions, and file the week's sheet with the site diary.

Formats

• Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
• Fillable PDF with form fields
• Fill in online, saved in your browser
• Excel / Google Sheets workbook

The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The workbook uses plain formulas only — SUM, IF, COUNTIF and the like — so it opens in Excel, LibreOffice and Google Sheets without anything breaking, and every calculated cell is grey so you can see which figures it worked out.

How to print

Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.

Questions

Is this the same as a scaffold inspection?

No. A scaffold has its own inspection record, completed by whoever is competent to inspect it. This sheet is the general weekly walk and only asks whether the scaffold looks right and whether the tag is current.

Does it replace a risk assessment or method statement?

No. Those are written before the work and say how it will be done. This records what the site actually looked like on the day you walked it, which is a different piece of paper and usually wanted alongside them.

Why is there a repeat column?

Because a finding that keeps coming back is a different problem from a new one. Ticking it makes the pattern visible when a run of weekly sheets is read together.

Who should walk the round?

Whoever your own arrangements say — that varies by country, contract and size of site. The sheet records the name of the person who walked it and the date, and makes no statement about competence.