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Inspection and Audits for Infrastructure

In infrastructure, every work front demands attention: from the safety of people working on public roads and at height to environmental control, workmanship quality and the evidence the client asks for. Whether in telecoms, power, water or gas, each network has its particularities, but the commitment is the same: care and rigour in every check.

The essential points of attention in infrastructure, in a single app

In infrastructure, every work front demands attention: from the safety of people working on public roads and at height to environmental control, workmanship quality and the evidence the client asks for. Whether in telecoms, power, water or gas, each network has its particularities, but the commitment is the same: care and rigour in every check.

01

Occupational Health and Safety

  • Checking the work front on public roads
  • Checking that PPE is issued, worn and in date
  • Inspection of equipment and work at height
  • Control of confined spaces, electrical risk and ATEX zones

02

Environment

  • Waste segregation, storage and disposal
  • Spill prevention and response
  • Monitoring noise, dust and nuisance in urban areas
  • Clean-up and reinstatement when closing the site

03

Works

  • Audits of work fronts and subcontractors
  • Site set-up, prior notification and H&S plan
  • Checking temporary traffic signage
  • Inspection of excavations, trenches and paving reinstatement

04

Quality Control

  • Incoming material inspection
  • Conformity of the work with the design
  • Recording tests and commissioning
  • Handling non-conforming outputs and corrective actions

In infrastructure, anyone who was not there only sees the record

If the utility asked right now for the evidence from last week's work front, how long would your team take to find it? With Smart apps, every inspection is recorded on site, with photos, time and owner, ready to look up or demonstrate what was checked.

Every work front counts in the record

Dozens of short jobs a day, in different places, with no fixed site where the supervisor stays. What was not recorded at the time cannot be demonstrated later.

The same procedure in every crew

Small crews make their own decisions in the field. With the checklist on the phone, they all follow the same steps. The procedure no longer depends on someone remembering.

Equipment is inspected too

Harnesses, ladders, tools and voltage detectors move from crew to crew. The pre-use inspection is recorded every time they change hands.

Evidence has to be at hand

The utility audits, the inspector inspects and the progress certificate depends on the record. Without the inspection record, the measurement stalls until someone chases it.

Supervisor checks trench shoring on a public road
Supervisor checks trench shoring on a public road
Technician checks the harness before climbing the pole
Technician checks the harness before climbing the pole

What happens after the finding is written down

Recording the issue is the easy part and almost everyone already does it. What fails is what comes next: who handles it, by when, with what evidence, and how anyone knows it will not come back.

The record arrives late

The issue is written at the end of the day, back at the office, from memory. What was not photographed on the spot does not come back.

The action has no owner

It sits in minutes, in an email or in a conversation on site. With no named owner and no deadline, nobody answers for it.

Nobody chases the deadline

Chasing depends on someone remembering to go and check. Usually they remember the day the client asks.

The close has no evidence

Saying it was resolved is easy. Showing the state before, the action taken and the state after is another matter.

Nobody knows what repeats

With no type and no cause, the same finding turns up on three different fronts and counts as three isolated cases.

Management asks and waits

How many issues are open, for how many days and on which fronts. The answer comes out of phone calls, not out of the system.

Clipboard with paper inspection forms on a pickup dashboard
Clipboard with paper inspection forms on a pickup dashboard

What the law requires you to put on record

In Brazil, the standard says what to record, who may carry it out and how long to keep it, and expressly allows the record to sit in a computerised system. What is left open is which system.

Machinery, equipment and PPE

  • Initial, routine and periodic inspection, at least every twelve months (NR-35, 35.6.6)
  • Carried out by a trained, qualified or legally certified professional, formally authorised (NR-12, 12.11.3)
  • Record with the service performed, parts, date, safety condition and who did it (NR-12, 12.11.2)
  • Documentation filed for a minimum of five years (NR-35, 35.3.1, j)

Construction site

  • Prior notice of works in the SIT computerised system, before activities start (18.3.1, b)
  • Risk management programme drawn up by a legally certified occupational safety professional (18.4.2)
  • Daily inspections carried out and recorded , with a checklist (18.10.1.32)
  • Work permit on paper or digital, closed and filed so it can be traced (NR-35, 35.5.8)

Occupational risk management

  • Risk inventory and action plan as the minimum documents of the programme (1.5.7.1)
  • Assessment reviewed every two years , and after an accident, a process change or a change in legal requirements (1.5.4.4.6)
  • Documents dated and signed, available to the labour inspectorate (1.5.7.2 and 1.5.7.2.1)
  • History of the inventory's updates kept for at least twenty years (1.5.7.3.3.1)

ISO standards

  • ISO 45001 §10.2 — nonconformity and corrective action
  • ISO 9001 §8.7 — control of nonconforming outputs
  • ISO 9001 §10.2 — record of the nature, actions and results
  • ISO 9001 §9.2 — internal audit

From street to management system, in four moves

It's the same sequence in all four domains, whether a safety inspection, a works audit or the periodic check of a harness.

Capture

In the field, on the phone, with or without a connection. What is not captured on the spot gets rebuilt from memory, hours later, back at the office.

Evidence it

Photo marked up and captioned, signature identified, time and coordinates, tied to the item they evidence instead of bundled in at the end.

Handle

The nonconformity leaves the field already with type, priority, due date, owner and a 5W2H action plan.

Deliver

Dashboard for management, report in your branding, and the process opened inside the management system , yours or your client's.

What the inspection subject can be

A work front, a network asset, equipment or PPE with its holder, a material batch. Each with its own record and accumulated history, instead of a loose document per check.

The rule is in the model

Conditionals, weights, severity, mandatory evidence, calculated items and exit rule. The same inspection gives the same result with any technician.

The finding has a flow

From finding to proven closure, with a trail of who did what and when. Where there is SoftExpert, the process opens inside it by native integration .

The whole inspection fits on the phone

Checklist selection
Checklist selection
Checklist sections
Checklist sections
Item response
Item response
Photo markup
Photo markup

Evidence that holds up in an audit

One work-site inspection produces dozens of photos. Whoever opens them a year from now has to see, unaided, what each one evidences.

Mark and caption

Free pen in six colours over the image itself, captioned at the moment of the inspection.

The mark survives the PDF

What was drawn on the phone enters the document as a numbered table, tied to the evidence number and to the answer that raised it.

Photo markup
Photo markup
In the report
In the report

No inspection closes half-finished

The system counts what is missing and says who has to sign. Usually two people: the inspector and whoever answered for the work front.

Open items in view

Unanswered questions, mandatory fields left blank, pending result and missing signature, counted by the system before it lets you close.

Signature with context

Name, e-mail, ID document and location captured at the moment of signing.

Calculated result

Score and rating applied by the model's rule, identical across every site and every crew.

Only then, closed

No open items and no missing signatures. Until then the inspection stays in progress, visible to whoever ordered it.

Checklist data and pending items
Checklist data and pending items
Signature with location
Signature with location

From checklist to certificate, with nothing to write up afterwards

The certificate and the technical sheet come from the same checklist the team filled in on site. What was answered, photographed and signed becomes the final document, in the company template.

Answer

Each item with its answer, numbered evidence and who answered.

Conclude

The conclusion and the issues go into the document, with category and description.

Sign

The inspector's signature, with date, time and location.

Issue

Certificate or technical sheet in the company template, with instance number and revision.

The certificate comes from the checklist

Nobody copies answers into a separate document. What is in the certificate is what was recorded on site.

One checklist, several documents

Report, certificate and technical sheet from the same answers, each in its own template.

No stray versions

Instance number and revision on every page: the client always knows which certificate they received.

Your inspection standard, applied the same by every crew

What today depends on the inspector's experience becomes a rule in the system, the same on every front and with any technician.

Conditional answers

The inspection first asks under what conditions it runs: public highway, height, confined space. Only then does it show what applies. That is what makes "not applicable" disappear.

Weights and scoring

Each item is worth what it has to be worth, so the score reflects how critical the failure was rather than item count.

Calculated items

Formulas that combine answers and return the result on the spot, with no side maths.

Score evaluation

Rating bands that you define, applied automatically when the inspection closes.

Answer severity

A single critical item, such as missing PPE, fails the whole inspection.

Validation rules

Minimum and maximum ranges, mandatory evidence and justification, checked on the device.

The rule alerts instantly
The rule alerts instantly

The nonconformity leaves the field with an owner and a date

Finding the nonconformity is the start. What the operator charges for, and what you sell, is the record that someone closed it on time.

Opens on site

The noncompliant item opens the issue during the inspection, with the photo, the place and who found it.

Classifies

Type, priority and due date set by the process rule, the same on any front.

Handles

Named owner, 5W2H action plan, controlled deadline and automatic chasing.

Evidence

Auditable timeline: who did what, when, and with what evidence attached.

Nothing waits for someone to remember

Deadlines coming due, issues with no owner and overdue actions show on the dashboard and in the alert before the client asks.

Occurrences in the panel
Occurrences in the panel

Expand your ecosystem

The field record enters SoftExpert as a process

Native SoftExpert integration

Smart apps and SoftExpert have partnered for over twenty years. The integration is native, built by people who work on both sides, not a connector bolted on from outside.

  1. 01

    Mobile execution

    Inspection or audit completed on the phone, with evidence, answers and item context.

  2. 02

    Server orchestration

    SmartApp receives the closure, validates the package and prepares the integration send.

  3. 03

    Integration queue

    Async processing with status, retry and history for every submission.

  4. 04

    SoftExpert workflow

    Opens or updates the native SoftExpert process — no file export/import.

  5. 05

    Occurrences and actions

    Deviations follow the existing nonconformity flow, with evidence and owner.

  6. 06

    Dashboards, portals and reports

    Management follow-up, synced checklist portal and report attached to the process.

SmartApps Checklist no celular — dados do checklist
SmartApp
SoftExpert no notebook — workflow e fluxograma
SoftExpert

The record is already inside SoftExpert

Follow-up portal, answer grids, deviation with evidence and history for every send — in SoftExpert.

Follow-up portal
Follow-up portal
Deviation with evidence
Deviation with evidence

Every occurrence type has a workflow of its own

You create the occurrence types yourselves, and each one carries its own workflow. Below are four examples, not a closed list: a support ticket and an audit nonconformity are not handled the same way.

Nonconformity

Record · Root cause · Actions · Effectiveness check

Environmental anomaly

Record · Handling · Approval · Effectiveness check

Improvement opportunity

Record · Analysis · Actions

Support ticket

Record · Handling · Closure

Steps are assembled, not imposed
Steps are assembled, not imposed

From root cause to a verified close

This is where a digitised inspection parts ways with a good-looking report: the finding gets a method of analysis, a plan with an owner and a deadline, and a check that confirms the result.

Cause, not symptom
Cause, not symptom
Action plan with schedule
Action plan with schedule

Reports, inspection certificates and technical sheets, with your branding

The same checklist produces the document each reader needs: a report for management, a certificate for the end client and the asset technical sheet for the auditor. Nobody puts anything together in a rush the day before.

Report, certificate or technical sheet

Each document type has its own template: fields, order, logo and visual identity. You pick the template; nobody assembles the document by hand.

Numbered, traceable evidence

Each photo has its own number, linked to the item that required it, with who answered, date, time and coordinates.

Log of issues raised

Nonconformities listed at the end, with category and description, ready for the end client and the auditor.

Instance and revision in the footer

Every report carries the instance number and the revision on each page. No doubt about which version the client received.

Checklist report and verification sheet from the same checklist
Checklist report and verification sheet from the same checklist

The whole process in five steps

Dedicated features for every need.

01

Design the checklist

  • Your own checklists

    Sections, items, weights and rules from your standard

  • Conditional answers

    The right question at the right moment

  • Validation rules

    Limits, mandatory fields and blocking

  • Calculated items

    Formulas solved by the system

02

Run it in the field

  • Web and mobile execution

    Offline by default, on iOS and Android

  • Complete evidence

    Photo, audio, video, signature and GPS

03

Score and rate

  • Weights and scoring

    The score reflects real criticality

  • Score evaluation

    Rating bands applied automatically

  • Answer severity

    A critical item fails the whole set

04

Handle the deviation

  • Configurable handling workflows

    A workflow of its own for each occurrence type

  • Root-cause analysis tools

    Ishikawa 6M, with the root cause flagged

  • Action plan and effectiveness

    5W2H and effectiveness check with evidence

05

Govern and integrate

  • SoftExpert integration

    Native, with governance and history

  • Customisable reports and inspection certificates

    With issues, images and your company branding

  • Spreadsheet import

    Initial load with no typing

  • Users and crews

    Scope and permissions by profile

  • Traceability and audit

    A complete trail of who did what

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