Filled out at the desk
A paper checklist is carried around the site and filled out later from memory, or ticked all at once at the end of the week. The record then shows what the inspector believed, not what the work looked like.
Quality control
Construction quality control inspection checklist: items, answers and follow-up
A quality control checklist is only worth having when it is filled out at the work, kept as a record and followed by action when a check fails. This page covers what a QC checklist holds, how one is built and filled out in Fidrel, and how a failed line leaves the form.
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Where QC checklists let the job down
A failed line that nobody follows
The inspector marks a check as failed and the sheet goes into a binder. Unless someone raises the deficiency as a record with an owner and a date, it is found again at the punch walk.
A checklist that changes after the fact
When the form can be amended or the template is edited later, the checklist stops being evidence. A record is useful because it cannot be quietly improved.
What a QC checklist holds
The Quality inspection checklist that comes with the US edition is described as a contractor inspection of completed work against the drawings and specifications. Its items are Work complies with IFC drawings and specifications, where IFC means issued for construction, Materials and products as specified, Dimensions, layout and tolerances checked, Connections and seals completed, Submittals and test reports attached, and a text field for Deficiencies and corrective actions. It is one general checklist. A checklist per type of work, such as concrete placement or rough-in, is a template you build: write the checks an inspector can answer by looking, one per line, and keep the free text for what the checks cannot say.
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Four kinds of answers
A check item is answered Pass, Fail or N/A. The other three kinds are text, number and date, used for things like a measured dimension, a batch number or the date of a test. Any item can be marked required. Drafts are saved, so an inspection that spans a shift can be finished later; once submitted the form shows Submitted and locked. The list shows the number, template, location, inspector, the count of items answered Fail, the status and the date, with search and a template filter.
From template to a locked record
Step 1
Start from a template
Under Site forms choose Add standard templates to get the Quality inspection checklist, or New template to build your own with a Name, a Description and Check items, each with a Label, a Type and a Required setting.
Step 2
Fill out the form at the work
Choose Fill out a form, pick the Template, enter the Location / element, who it was Performed by and the Date, and answer each item with Pass, Fail or N/A. Text, number and date items go in fields of their own.
Step 3
Submit and lock it
Required items must be answered before you can Submit. A submitted form is locked for everyone, administrators included, and keeps its own copy of the check items, so a later change to the template does not touch it.
Step 4
Follow up on what failed
The list shows how many items on each form were answered Fail. Open an NCR for each deficiency with a location, a responsible person and a corrective action, and write the form’s number in its text.
How a failed check leaves the form
A form does not open anything on its own. The deficiency is counted in the list, and following it up is your next step: create an NCR in the quality area, with its category, priority, corrective action, location and responsible person, and say which form it came from. If the check was a planned inspection record in the quality area rather than a form, Create NCR fills in the title, text, location and responsible person from the inspection and links the two. The responsible person is notified in Fidrel.
What the checklist does not do
A Fail is counted as a deficiency in the list; it does not open an NCR on its own. The form has no photo or signature field, so photos belong in the daily report and a signature stays on paper. Fidrel has no photo pins on plans and no offline fill-in: the form is filled out in the browser with a connection. Fidrel sends no email when a form is submitted.
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Frequently asked questions
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Talk to usAt least the checks the inspector can answer by looking: work matches the drawings and specifications, materials are as specified, dimensions and tolerances were checked, connections are complete, and test reports are attached, plus a place for deficiencies.
Yes. Build your own templates with check items, where each item has a label and a type and can be required, or start from the standard template and change it.
No. A Fail is counted as a deficiency in the list. You raise the NCR yourself, or use Create NCR on a planned inspection record, which fills in the NCR from the inspection and links the two.
No. A submitted form is locked for everyone, administrators included. If something was recorded wrongly, fill out a new form and refer to the number of the first one.
Not on the form, which has no photo field. Photos go in the daily report or on the NCR you raise for the deficiency, where Take photo opens the phone’s camera.
Yes, in the phone’s browser. On a phone each item stands on its own with Pass, Fail and N/A buttons below it. There is no app, and the form needs a connection.