Mine Health and Safety Inspectorate or the Department of Employment and Labour, by site

    Pre-use checks and inspection records for heavy-equipment fleets

    For yellow plant, haul trucks, forklifts and LDVs on mines, plants and construction sites in South Africa: the pre-start on the operator's phone with no signal, a defect that becomes an owned corrective action, every machine with its own inspection history and health score, and the operator's fitness for duty on the record.

    Haul trucks and a loader on a mine haul road
    Inspecable inspection templates on the web dashboard
    01What the regulator asks for

    Under the MHSA regulations on trackless mobile machinery, or the OHS Act Driven Machinery Regulations

    MHSA regulations on trackless mobile machinery, or the OHS Act Driven Machinery Regulations. Each obligation below has a free document to start on paper, emailed as a PDF.

    A pre-use check before every shift, by the operator

    The TMM pre-start on a mine, the forklift pre-use check in a plant, the LDV pre-trip for the bakkie: done, signed and kept, with the defect reported before the machine moves.

    Heavy equipment pre-start checklist

    Operators fit for duty and licensed for the machine

    A declaration before the shift, the medical certificate of fitness current, the licence or competency for that class of machine on file.

    Fitness for duty declaration and register

    Lifting and driven machinery on their inspection intervals

    Cranes, forklifts and lifting tackle under the Driven Machinery Regulations, with the registered inspector's record and the next due date on the register.

    Forklift pre-use inspection checklist
    02The same record in Inspecable

    What the product enforces, and what is switched on for you

    Every trial starts on the Safety & Compliance edition. Anything marked Operations plan is switched on by Inspecable.

    The pre-start on the operator's phone, offline

    Scan the QR label on the machine, run the pre-use check with a photo and a signature per item, with no signal. A failed item raises a tracked issue with a due date on the spot.

    Every machine carries its own history

    An asset register imported from your spreadsheet with AI column mapping; per-machine timeline, health score and manuals; sub-assets for the engine and attachments.

    A defect becomes an owned corrective action

    The issue goes into the corrective-action register with an owner and a due date, and cannot close without a method, evidence and a signature. See the trend on the asset timeline.

    Work orders, planned maintenance and fitness-to-work at clock-in (Operations plan)

    Work orders raised from the defect with parts deducted on completion, a planned-maintenance register with overdue badges, and geofenced clock-in with a fitness-to-work check on medicals, tickets and required courses.

    The mechanisms in detail: pre-start checks, vehicle inspections, permits to work, corrective actions, the legal register, the asset register and the AI.

    03Questions

    Asked by heavy-equipment fleets before buying

    Yes. The Android app runs the check offline with a photo and a signature per item and syncs when it is opened back in range. The QR lookup needs a connection, so the machine is opened before the operator goes out of coverage or from the cached asset list.

    Not automatically. The planned-maintenance register on the Operations plan holds the plan with overdue badges, and a work order is raised from a failed check or by a planner; nothing creates the next service on its own. Readings are recorded on the inspection.

    No. Inspecable is not a telematics system. The Operations plan has a map of assets and people from the records in the app, and geofenced clock-in for time and attendance. For live vehicle tracking you keep your telematics provider.
    See it on your own checklists

    Fourteen days on the Safety & Compliance edition, no card

    Import your inspection, run it on a phone with no signal, and watch the failed item raise a tracked action. Or book a 30-minute walkthrough on your site's records.