A regular walk around your own site finds the hazards no form ever will. SiteKey lets you record what you saw, what you fixed, and what you assigned, from your phone as you walk.
A health and safety site walk is exactly what it sounds like: a manager, supervisor or officer walking the site with their eyes open, talking to the people doing the work, and looking at conditions as they actually are rather than as the paperwork says they should be.
Walks matter twice. First, they find things: the blocked egress, the missing guard, the extension lead through the puddle, the new hire working unsupervised. Second, they demonstrate something the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 cares about a great deal: that the people running the business actually verify what happens on the ground. Officers of a PCBU have a due diligence duty under section 44, which includes verifying that health and safety resources and processes are in place and being used. A pattern of recorded site walks, with findings and completed actions, is close to the best evidence of that duty being met that exists.
An unrecorded walk still finds the hazard, but it proves nothing later, and its follow-up actions live in someone's head. The gap between walking and recording is where most of the value leaks out.
Notes on paper get transcribed later, or more often do not. The finding from Tuesday's walk is forgotten by Friday, and the hazard is still there.
A walk that ends with a verbal see to that fixes nothing. Every finding needs an owner and a date, or it quietly evaporates.
When each walk lives on its own sheet of paper, you can never see that the same hazard keeps coming back in the same place.
SiteKey site walk records live in the same platform as your sign in, inductions and incident reports, so everything about the site is in one place.
SiteKey starts from $30/month as a flat rate. There are no per-user fees and no per-scan costs, so the price does not climb every time you take on another crew. Site walk records are part of the SiteKey platform, alongside sign in, incident reporting and toolbox talks. See full pricing on the SiteKey homepage.
A site walk, sometimes called a safety walk, walkaround or site inspection, is a structured walk through a workplace to observe conditions, talk with workers, and identify hazards as they exist right now. It complements paperwork-based systems because it checks reality rather than intention. On most worksites they are done by supervisors or managers on a regular cycle, weekly or fortnightly, plus after significant changes on site.
The Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 does not prescribe site walks by name. But officers of a PCBU have a due diligence duty under section 44 that includes verifying health and safety processes are in place and being used, and a PCBU must monitor conditions to manage risks. Recorded site walks with findings and completed actions are among the strongest practical evidence of both. If something goes wrong, an unrecorded walk might as well not have happened.
The date, who walked, and what was observed: hazards found, their location, photos where useful, conversations worth noting, and positive observations as well. Critically, every finding that needs fixing should be turned into an action with an owner and a due date, and the record should show when it was closed out. A walk record without follow-up actions is a diary, not a management tool.
It depends on the site's risk and pace of change. A busy construction site changes daily and suits at least weekly walks, while a stable warehouse might run fortnightly or monthly, with extra walks after layout changes, new plant, or incidents. Regularity matters more than frequency: a walk that reliably happens every week beats an ambitious daily plan that dies in a month.
You do the walk with your phone. Log each finding as you go, with a photo and a note, assign actions to people with due dates, and close them out when done. The walk history for each site builds automatically, alongside your sign-in records, incident reports and toolbox talks. SiteKey is a flat rate from $30 a month per site with no per-user charges.
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