# Daily log checklist

**Project:** ______________________  
**Date:** ______________________  
**Superintendent:** ______________________  
**Weather AM / PM:** ______________________  

## Conditions

- [ ] Weather morning and afternoon: sky, temperature, wind, precipitation
- [ ] Ground and site conditions, and whether weather stopped or slowed any work

## Who was on site

- [ ] Manpower by company: workers and hours
- [ ] Visitors: who, company, why, time in and out
- [ ] Inspections: inspector, scope, result

## Work and materials

- [ ] Work performed by area and trade
- [ ] Quantities of work in place where you track them
- [ ] Deliveries: from whom, what, received by
- [ ] Equipment on site: hours operating and idle

## Problems

- [ ] Delays: cause, start and end, who was affected and who was told
- [ ] Directions received in the field (and the T&M ticket or RFI they led to)
- [ ] Phone calls or conversations that changed the plan

## Safety

- [ ] Toolbox talk topic and attendance
- [ ] Incidents and near misses, with who was involved
- [ ] Safety violations issued and to whom

## Close out the day

- [ ] Photos taken and labelled with location
- [ ] Tomorrow’s scheduled work and crews noted
- [ ] Log signed or completed before leaving site

## How to use it

1. Write it before you leave, every day, including the quiet ones. A day with no entry is a day you can’t prove anything about.
2. Record facts, not opinions: times, counts, names, locations.
3. Write delays the day they happen, with the cause and who you told. That note is the start of any time extension.
4. Copy yesterday’s crews as the starting point, then correct them; most days look like yesterday.
5. Cross-reference: if a direction became a T&M ticket or an RFI, put its number in the log.

Template by os.construction: https://os.construction/resources/templates/daily-log-checklist. Sample rows are illustrative; your contract and specifications govern.