Department of Employment and Labour

    Inspection software for utilities: substations, lines, plants and the crews that walk them

    For water, electricity and municipal utilities in South Africa: infrastructure inspections with a verifiable record per asset, incidents and near misses reported from the field offline, electrical installation and driven-machinery records on the asset, and corrective actions that cannot close without evidence.

    Substation and transmission lines against the sky
    Inspecable asset register with groups, bulk upload and a card per asset
    01What the regulator asks for

    Under the Occupational Health

    Occupational Health and Safety Act 85 of 1993 and the Electrical Installation and Electrical Machinery Regulations. Each obligation below has a free document to start on paper, emailed as a PDF.

    Electrical installations and machinery inspected and recorded

    The Electrical Installation Regulations and the Electrical Machinery Regulations expect each installation to have a responsible person, an inspection record and a certificate of compliance where one applies.

    Substation inspection checklist (free PDF)

    Incidents reported and investigated, section 24

    A contact, a fall or a vehicle incident on a remote site must be recorded, investigated under the General Administrative Regulations and, where it qualifies, reported.

    Incident investigation report template

    Vehicles and crews fit to go out

    The pre-trip check on the bakkie and the declaration that the crew is fit, before a day on the road or up a pole.

    Vehicle inspection checklist (pre-use walk-around)
    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.

    A record per asset, offline in the field

    Every substation, transformer, pole, pump station and line section is an asset with a QR label, its inspection history, timeline and health score. The crew scans the label, runs the checklist with no signal and the record syncs on return.

    Incidents and near misses from the field

    Reported on the phone with photos and video, offline, with 5-Whys and fishbone root cause on the web and corrective actions that cannot close without evidence and a signature.

    A verifiable history on every inspection

    A signed PDF per inspection and a hash-chained history of who signed and amended it, verifiable from the dashboard or the phone. A date range exports as one ZIP with an index spreadsheet when the auditor asks.

    Work orders, dispatch and a map of assets and people (Operations plan)

    Work orders raised from a failed inspection, a dispatch board that proposes who does what for a manager to approve, and a map of assets and people.

    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 utilities before buying

    Keep a record per asset (substation, transformer, pole, line section, pump station), run the checklist where the asset is, even with no signal, raise a tracked issue the moment an item fails, and give the auditor a verifiable history. Dispatch and work orders are on the Operations plan.

    Run your own substation checklist on the Android app with no signal, with a photo per item and a signature, and it syncs when the app is opened back in range. Start from the free substation inspection checklist on this site, or import your paper form with AI.

    Count the substations, transformers, line sections and pump stations you would register, then put the published per-user and per-asset prices next to the inspection and admin hours your crews estimate they would save. The utility inspection ROI calculator on this site shows the method and the payback period.
    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.