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Site diary
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One page a day for the site manager, phone first: who was on site, the weather, deliveries, plant, what was raised and the photos are filled in from the records; the site manager adds the work done, visitors, delays and H&S, and signs the day off. The QS and PM read the same page.
You enter
- The narrative: work done, visitors, delays and their causes, H&S matters — the things only the person on site can say.
- Head counts per package where the register did not catch everyone, and the daily line — who did what, where, under which code.
- Photos taken on the day, and the sign-off.
Saral fills in
- The weather from a free feed for the site's postcode.
- Who was on site from the attendance register and check-ins, subcontractors from the labour log and package register.
- Deliveries and plant from Buying's orders and hires and the Warehouse's kit; what was raised from the registers (RFIs, permits, inspections, blockers).
- The photo log, and the last fortnight's status strip so a missed day is visible.
It produces
- A signed, versioned diary per day — the record relied on in a delay or loss-and-expense claim.
- The day's export (PDF) and the labour actuals the Programme's look-ahead reads.
- Head-count and delay evidence for the Overview's alerts and the client report.
What this page is for
The site diary is the contemporaneous record. Every delay notice, EOT claim and loss-and-expense account rests on what the diary said at the time, so it has to be quick to keep and hard to lose. The facts are pre-filled so the site manager types only what is new, and the sign-off freezes the day.
Facts first, then the write-up
On a phone the cards run in one column: the facts (weather, who was on site, subcontractors, deliveries, plant, what was raised, photos), then the narrative, then sign off. On a desk the same cards sit in columns in the same order. Nothing pre-filled is a claim — each card says where its figure came from.
Signing off
An open day can be edited. A signed day is locked and versioned; reopening it keeps the earlier version. The fortnight strip shows which days are still open so nothing is left unsigned for long.
Who can do what
A site manager or PM with the site-record key records and signs. A QS or anyone with the cost-report read opens the same page as a reader — no inputs. The routes refuse anyone else.
Where next
Confirm the subcontractors' daywork hours on Confirm dayworks, keep the labour log and the RFIs on Site & design, and raise anything that stopped work on Site registers → Blockers.
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