Apprentice path · Stage 26: The paperwork that decides the work · Lesson 95

Inspection readiness

Being ready for inspection means the work already matches the approved requirements, and you can show it.

Why this matters on the job

Nobody passes an inspection by tidying up beforehand. What gets looked at is what was built, and that was decided weeks earlier by how it was built.

How to think about it

  1. Compare the completed work against the approved requirements.
  2. Check the labels, the access and the visible workmanship.
  3. Have the required records available.

Worked through

Look at what the three points actually are. Labels is lesson 64. Access is lesson 53 and lesson 65 and lesson 70. Records is lesson 94. None of it is inspection work -- it is ordinary work, done properly, which is why it cannot be added at the end.

Check yourself: The inspector is booked for Friday. When does preparation start?

Answer: It already did. Inspection preparation starts during the work, not when the inspector arrives.

What is inspected is the installation, and the installation was finished before the inspection was booked. The only thing you can add on Friday is the paperwork, and only if it was kept as you went.

Watch out for: Treating it as an event to prepare for. It is a check on work already done -- the preparation is doing the work properly, every day, and the inspection is where that either shows or does not.
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