Tag
#records
3 topics across all disciplines.
Site records and the daily diary — writing for somebody who will not believe you
Why the site diary is the most valuable document a supervisor produces, what distinguishes an entry that is evidence from one that is worthless, what to record every day regardless, and why contemporaneous matters more than detailed.
Variations, backcharges and notice — the difference between noticing and notifying
How to recognise an instruction that is really a variation, why the entitlement usually depends on the notice rather than the change, what a backcharge is and how it runs in both directions, and the one-sentence note that protects a position without starting an argument.
Instrument calibration records — as-found is the only part that carries information
Why an as-left-only certificate tells you nothing, traceability and what a calibration certificate actually proves, drift trending to set intervals, the test uncertainty ratio, and the records a regulator or an incident investigator will ask for.