Manual Inspection Checklists Might Be Hurting Your Industrial Equipment

What is an Equipment Inspection Checklist?

An equipment inspection checklist, sometimes also referred to as an equipment inspection form is a critical tool used by inspectors across several industries to assess the operation and compliance of a piece of equipment, according to internal, local, or international guidelines.

Paper Equipment Inspection Checklists

The old and inefficient way

This is nothing new. You already know that your equipment being used in a warehouse, distribution center or manufacturing facility needs to be mechanically sound. When a problem erupts with your brakes, battery, or fuel line, this can cause serious injuries or damage to the facility.

You have a checklist in place. But it’s on paper. Each model of forklift has a separate checklist. Is the operator using the right form? Is the detailed inspection being filled out? Were there defective parts? Was maintenance called in to repair it? When?

Paper Inspection Checklists Challenges

Difficult to track, hard to maintain

If a problem has been spotted, the paper checklist won’t be able to tell you the history. A call has to be placed for someone to go through the binders and search if there’s a history of this issue occurring.

Is There a Better, Faster, and More Accurate Way?

Equipment inspection checklists with simple, and easy to use software

Then you have got to take a look at Scout for powered industrial equipment such as forklifts, scissor lifts, pallet jack or even a boom lift. Scout gives you exactly what you need. Nothing less, nothing more.

All you need to do is scan a QR code, answer the questions with a quick touch of the screen and now you have a digital record that will quickly give you what you need to keep your fleet running efficiently and safely…and OSHA compliant.
Ready for a cost-effective digital solution for your checklists? Great! Scout is it. Check it out now!