OSHA · ASME · FMCSA · 44 TEMPLATES

Digital Equipment Inspection,
Done Right.

The heavy equipment inspection app that replaces paper checklists — 44 OSHA, ASME & FMCSA templates for cranes, heavy equipment, and CDL fleets, on the phone already in your operator's pocket.

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DEFINITION

What is digital equipment inspection?

Digital equipment inspection replaces paper checklists with structured mobile forms tied to each asset, capturing pass/fail results, photos, e-signatures, and timestamps into a single audit-ready record.

Where a paper inspection ends up in a binder — or a glovebox, or a landfill — an electronic equipment inspection lands in a searchable database the moment the operator hits submit. Digital, electronic, and paperless equipment inspection all describe the same shift: moving the checklist off the clipboard and onto the phone, with the regulation built into the form instead of printed at the top.

The practical difference is the record. Every digital equipment inspection form stamps who inspected the asset, when, what passed and failed, and the photo evidence behind any failure — so an OSHA auditor, an insurer, or a general contractor sees a defensible trail instead of a missing page. That same structured data feeds deficiency tracking, scheduling, and asset health scoring downstream, which paper can never do.

PROCESS · 4 STEPS

How to go paperless.

Switching from paper to digital inspections is a four-step move — and the whole thing works offline, syncing the moment a device reconnects.

01STEP · 01

Pick your templates

Start from 44 prebuilt OSHA, ASME, and FMCSA checklists — or customize them in a drag-and-drop builder. The right template loads automatically for each equipment type.

02STEP · 02

Tag equipment, print QR

Add your fleet and generate a QR label for every asset. Operators scan it in the yard to jump straight into the correct inspection — no template hunting.

03STEP · 03

Operators inspect on the phone

Pass / Fail / N/A per item with a photo required on every failure, signature, submit. The offline PWA queues inspections with no signal and syncs on reconnect.

04STEP · 04

Failures route to mechanics

A failed item auto-routes to your mechanics as a deficiency, and every inspection becomes an audit-trail PDF — closing the loop without a paper deficiency tag.

NOT · GENERIC

Why DigiDocs over a generic form app.

Most equipment inspection software is a blank form builder. DigiDocs ships with the actual regulations, the deficiency workflow, and the heavy-equipment field patterns already built in.

44 templates with citations on every field

OSHA, ASME, and FMCSA checklists for cranes, forklifts, aerial lifts, excavators, trucks, trailers, and rigging — each line referencing the standard behind it, not a generic 'condition OK?' prompt.

Photo capture on failures

A failed item prompts for a photo before the operator can move on. Voice and video notes capture context that doesn't fit a comment box — hydraulic leaks, weld cracks, ambiguous wear.

Deficiency-to-mechanic workflow

Failures land on the mechanic dashboard with photos and operator notes. The repair is logged, then auto-verified when the same field passes on the next inspection — the loop closes itself.

Operability & red-tag determination

Operators make an explicit Operable / Non-Operable call per OSHA 1926.1417 and can take a unit out of service with LOTO. Red-tagged equipment is flagged fleet-wide until the repair is verified.

Lift plans + basket plans

Critical-lift detection at 75% of capacity, ground bearing pressure, rigging selection, and the OSHA 1926.1431 50% personnel-basket derating — all in the same platform as the inspection.

Asset health scoring

Every asset gets a 0–100 health score blending pass-rate, open deficiency load, and overdue scheduled work — so you see which units are degrading before they fail in the field.

Offline, installable PWA

The mobile inspection app installs to any phone or tablet, caches inspect routes, and queues inspections offline. No app-store download, no per-device license, no signal required.

Customer share links + audit PDFs

Send a customer a revocable share link to a completed inspection, or export the audit-trail PDF with inspector, timestamp, photos, and the cited standard for the project file.

Multi-branch + white-label

Run multiple branches and projects under one tenant with branch-scoped access, and white-label the whole platform under your own brand for crews and customers.

FAQ · BEFORE YOU ASK

Frequently asked.

01

What is digital equipment inspection?

Digital equipment inspection is the practice of replacing paper inspection checklists with structured mobile forms tied to each individual asset. Instead of a clipboard, an operator records pass/fail results, photos, e-signatures, and timestamps on a phone — and every inspection becomes a searchable, audit-ready record automatically. It's also called electronic or paperless equipment inspection.

02

Is digital equipment inspection OSHA-compliant?

Yes. OSHA requires that equipment inspections be performed and documented — it does not require paper. DigiDocs ships templates pre-mapped to the relevant standards (OSHA 1926.1412 for cranes, 1910.178 for forklifts, ASME B30 series for rigging and overhead cranes) with the citation referenced on every form, and it retains the documentation indefinitely in an audit log. The digital record satisfies the same documentation obligation a paper form does, with a stronger trail.

03

Can I inspect cranes, forklifts, and trucks in one app?

Yes. DigiDocs is built for mixed fleets. You can run OSHA crane inspections, forklift inspections, FMCSA electronic DVIRs for CDL trucks and trailers, and general heavy-equipment checklists from the same account — each asset loads the correct template for its equipment type. Cranes, forklifts, and trucks share one dashboard, one deficiency workflow, and one health-scoring system.

04

How do I switch from paper to digital inspections?

Pick your templates (44 are prebuilt, or customize), add your equipment and generate QR labels, have operators inspect on the phone, and let failures auto-route to your mechanics. Most teams are running their first digital inspection the same day they sign up — there's no hardware to buy and the app installs to the phone already in your operator's pocket.

05

Does the heavy equipment inspection app work offline?

Yes. DigiDocs is an installable PWA that caches inspect routes and queues completed inspections locally. Operators in remote yards, basements, or the top of a tower-crane cab can finish a full shift of inspections with no signal — the queue syncs in the background the moment the device reconnects, and the data lands intact.

06

Are electronic inspection records legally valid?

Yes. An electronic inspection record with an operator e-signature and a system timestamp is accepted the same way a signed paper form is. OSHA and the FMCSA both recognize electronic recordkeeping for the inspections they require — the FMCSA explicitly permits electronic DVIRs, and OSHA's recordkeeping rules are media-neutral. DigiDocs' audit log and exportable PDFs give you a more defensible record than a paper file that can be lost or back-dated.

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