Keep the day’s record clear.
Checklists and plain guidance for supervisors who write the daily log, track who was on site and keep a record that holds up when questions come later.
What the guides cover
Jobsite Guide follows one working day on a construction site, from the morning plan to the last line in the record. Every guide sits under one of four topics.
- Daily plans: put the day's sequence and limits in one place, so the crew, the subcontractors and the office start from the same list.
- Site records: write progress, changes and open questions as plain facts that still hold up weeks later.
- Subcontractor coordination: tie each trade's crew and handoff to the plan, so the next crew knows what the last one left.
- Closeout records: gather the final lists and the handover documents the owner will ask for.
Latest guides
All guidesFederal claim deadlines: 6 rules for contractor payment
Separate routine invoices from certified federal claims. List the 6 rules, the $100,000 line and the records to keep for contractor payment.
Confined space permit details: 8 checklist items to record
Eight checklist topics for your confined space entry permit and daily site log, with the oxygen threshold, energy isolation and one-year retention rule.
Log 10 hydraulic jack checks in the daily record
Ten fields for a hydraulic jack daily log: timing, shock, tagging, parts, lubrication, foundation, slippage, antifreeze, control design, and special approval.
Topics
All guides
- Federal claim deadlines: 6 rules for contractor payment
- Confined space permit details: 8 checklist items to record
- Log 10 hydraulic jack checks in the daily record
- Universal waste storage: 6 rules in one table
- Serial number warranty tracking: 8 software features
- Retainage and withholding: 6 rules for public job subs
- Recurring work order rules: 5 settings to configure
- Field service settings: 9 checks before the next shift
- Duplicate customer record merge: 8 checks
- Contract notice deadlines: 5 clocks to check
- Steel joist safety: 9 checks before the lift starts
- Shovel and hoist safety: 9 points before the shift
- Scaffold and site safety: 9 checks before the shift
- MEWP training records: 9 checks before the lift
- Merge duplicate customer records: 6 rules
- Gas welding log: 9 checks before the shift
- Electrical clearance table: 5 rules to verify
- Check 6 lead exposure rules before the shift starts
- AFAD and flagger setup: 9 rules to check on site
- MEWP safety checks: 8 rules before daily use
- Lockout tagout: 9 reference items for site logs
- Trench protective systems: 9 checks for site records
- Silica safety records: 8 checks for your site file
- Scaffold and SDS checks: 8 items for your daily log
- Welding in confined spaces: 8 items to verify
- Weekly safety inspection log: 8 checks to record
- Log 8 hard hat compliance items for the daily record
- Eyewash and shower checks: 8 points before arrival
- Compressed air cleaning: compare 4 source pages
- Welding ventilation checks: 5 items to verify
- Respirator fit test log: 5 events that call for a retest
- Harness and lanyard rules: 8 checks before the shift
- Check 5 shoring design specs against approved plans
- Steel joist cable release rules at 60 feet
- Record 8 lockout tagout fields in a site log
- OSHA 300 log: 8 recordable entries to check
- How to record an OSHA 300 log injury: 3 forms
- Temporary heater canvas clearance at 10 feet
- Personnel platform load limit at 50 percent
- Lead air limits from 4 publisher pages to record
- Earthmoving seat belt check: 4 publisher pages
- Chlorinated solvents kept 200 feet away in 4 checks
- Trench ladder travel within a 25-foot walk
- Top rail height log: 4 fields before the shift
- Simple trench slope limit printed as 34 degrees
- Ring buoy spacing for water work within 200 feet
- Rebar cover height and size: 3 lines to record
- Powder tool misfire: hold still for 30 seconds
- Portable ladder checks: 4 steps before climbing
- Oxygen cylinder spacing: 20-foot gap or 5-foot barrier
- Overhead line clearance above 50 kV in 6 steps
- Noise limits before ear protection on 4 pages
- New worker safety instruction record: 4 checks
- Loose brick stack height: the 7-foot limit
- Lock out the circuit: 5 checks before repair starts
- Log lifting sling inspections: 6 checks before the lift
- Jobsite toilets and drinking water: 5 pages
- Jobsite light level log: 10 foot-candles, 300 lux
- Injury log entry in 7 days and posting to April 30
- Hot-work handoff: 6 checks before the crew welds
- Hoist rope retirement at 6 broken wires in one lay
- High-visibility gear near traffic: 4 pages
- Haul vehicle shift check: 10 parts to verify
- Grinder rest gap in 3 checks before the wheel spins
- Flammable liquid storage: 5 limits to check
- Flagger vest and paddle: 5 checks before traffic
- First-aid checks: 4 rules before the crew starts
- Extinguisher travel rules: 100 feet and 75 feet
- Excavation notice: 3 fields before the crew digs
- Debris chute rules from 5 source pages compared
- Noise-assessment logs: 3 checks for your task record
- Construction laser checks: card and 5 milliwatts
- Confined space entry records: 6 permit checks
- Silica-control records: 5 fields for concrete work
- Concrete grinding controls: 5 checks to record
- Column anchor rods: minimum of 4 before setting
- Asbestos amounts before demolition: 3 federal lines
- Recordable jobsite injuries: 6 Federal Tests
- Construction Daily Log Checklist for Supervisors
About Jobsite Guide
Jobsite Guide is for construction contractors and supervisors who run day-to-day site coordination. It focuses on the paperwork around the work, starting with the daily site record.
Who it is for
It is for the contractor, site lead or supervisor who runs the job day to day. If you are the person who has to say later what was done, who was there and what was waiting on what, these pages are meant for you.
Takeoffs, markup and bid pricing are a different job and are not covered here.
Use the daily progress record
The daily progress record is a printable sheet in three parts: the site day, one row of progress and the next handoff. Open the record page to see what each box asks for, print the blank sheet, and fill it in by hand at the end of the shift.
The made-up example shows a finished sheet for an invented job called Site A, so you can see how much to write. You fill the sheet in on paper, so nothing you write is sent anywhere.
What the record leaves out
The record does not predict weather, approve safety, estimate cost or add up hours and quantities. Crew hours and quantities are copied from your own log with their units, and anything you do not know stays marked unknown. The sheet holds one work row.
What this site does not do
Jobsite Guide gives no safety direction, no bid pricing and no approved forms or certification. The guides explain the paperwork around the work; they do not replace the rules that apply to your job.
Where the guides come from
How each guide is made and how its facts are checked is set out on the standards and sources page. If something is wrong, the corrections page says how to report it.
Find the part of the day you need to record
The subjects here follow the daily flow of a construction job: setting out the work, keeping the site log, passing information between trades and collecting the records needed at closeout. Start with the subject closest to the missing record rather than treating every checklist as a requirement for every job. A supervisor keeping a daily note needs a different view from the person gathering handover documents.
The focus is coordination and records. This site does not decide how work should be built, interpret a contract or establish whether a job meets a rule. It does not replace project drawings, site procedures or instructions from the people responsible for the work. Names of documents describe their purpose; they do not turn a general guide into an approved project form. Keep the actual job requirements alongside anything you take from these pages.