This pre start checklist is free and editable for your own pre starts and pre start records.

A pre start checklist serves an important purpose for almost all construction and industrial companies, enabling companies and workers to perform some pre-work checks to mitigate the chance of incidents and injuries and ensure the site, workers, plant and equipment and other work components are functional and safe to operate.

While there are many different types of pre start checklists (some are focused on assets while others are focused on more specific tasks), then general rule and idea is the same - and the template behind the pre start is often the same (or similar) too.

This pre start checklist is a great basic framework for any general pre start, and it can also be tweaked and customised to better suit other types of pre starts.

In fact, you can use this one template as a baseline for all of your pre starts, and create and deploy different variations and questions for different work areas and tasks in one click.

Why use one pre start template?

Firstly, standardising your pre starts as much as possible is always a good idea, because it reduces the chance of silly mistakes and errors, enables you to continuously improve your main templates and also improves the reliability and compliance of your records.

With the right pre start checklist template (like this one), you can also streamline your entire pre start process. A digital checklist allows supervisors and other workers to document pre starts directly on site using a tablet or phone, and admin and management get all of these records instantly synced to one place where they can be shared as PDF or other formats and also stored securely and automatically organised.

Use this smart pre start checklist now.