Safety stand-down logs, by text

The OSHA paper trail

Weekly safety stand-downs are an industry-standard practice (and an OSHA expectation in some jurisdictions). The record-keeping is typically:

• Foreman signs an attendance sheet on a clipboard
• Topic gets noted in handwriting
• Sheet gets photographed and texted to the office
• Office stores it in a folder nobody looks at

When an incident happens or a regulator asks, finding the last 12 weeks of stand-down records is forensic.

What Forward does

Foreman texts the project number after the stand-down with a quick structured update:

Foreman: stand-down done — 14 attended, topic was
         fall protection on the new scaffold, no
         concerns flagged

Forward: Logged · Tower B · 2026-05-14
  Sub:        Glen Mechanical
  Foreman:    Mike Park (+1 817 555 ...)
  Attendance: 14
  Topic:      Fall protection on new scaffold
  Concerns:   None flagged
  Audit chain: GC dashboard + Procore daily log

The GC PM sees the entry in the dashboard. Audit chain is queryable: “all stand-down records from the mech sub in the last 12 weeks,” “every project with a fall-protection stand-down topic this month,” “subs that missed last week’s stand-down.”

Photo of the sign-in sheet

Foreman can also text the photo of the physical sign-in sheet; Forward logs the photo as the evidence + transcribes the topic line. Best of both worlds: paper sign-in stays on site for AHJ inspectors who want to see it, and the digital record is queryable.

How to try it

Drop your email above for early-access. Stand-down logging runs on any connected project — no extra setup beyond the standard OAuth.