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Safety / 5S Audit with Corrective Actions

Run safety, 5S, and housekeeping audits from your own checklist, score each area, capture findings with photos, and auto-generate corrective actions with owners and due dates - so audits drive real improvement instead of scores nobody acts on.

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What you'll build

A login-protected web app where you run an audit on an area, score each item, snap photos of findings, auto-create corrective actions with owners and due dates, get owner sign-off on the plan, verify and close, and export scores, the open-action list, and area trends - with overdue reminders sent automatically.

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Before you start

  • A safety/5S audit checklist (items + how you score them) as a CSV or Google Sheet
  • Your list of areas/zones to audit (CSV or Google Sheet)
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The problem this kills

You walk the floor, mark up a 5S or safety checklist, tally a score, and... then what? The findings live on a clipboard or a forgotten spreadsheet tab. Nobody owns the fixes. The same loose guard, blocked exit, or messy staging lane shows up on the next audit because the last one never turned into action. Scores go up and down and nobody can say whether the place is actually getting safer.

The missing piece isn't the checklist - it's the loop after it: turning findings into assigned corrective actions with due dates, getting the area owner to commit to a plan, verifying the fix, and closing it. This tool builds that loop.

What you'll build

A simple, login-protected web app for your team that lets you:

  • Run an audit on any area from your own checklist, scoring each item the way you already score.
  • Capture findings with photos right from your phone.
  • Auto-generate corrective actions for failed/low-scoring items, each with an owner and a due date.
  • Send the corrective-action plan to the area owner/supervisor for review and sign-off.
  • Verify a fix and close the action - with the auditor approving closure.
  • Watch area scores trend over time so you can see if things are actually improving.
  • Get automatic email reminders before and after actions go overdue.
  • Export audit scores, the open-action list, and trend data as clean CSVs.

What's inside the Implementation Plan

The plan is a single file you paste into an AI coding agent (Claude Code). It builds the whole thing with you, step by step, in plain language.

It opens by interviewing you about your business - your checklist items and scoring scale, your areas and who owns each one, how you decide what counts as a finding, your typical and peak audit volumes, and your messy edge cases (recurring findings, shared areas, contractor zones). It reflects a short tailored spec back to you and waits for your thumbs-up before it builds anything. The result is a tool shaped around how you run audits, not a generic template.

From there it walks through standing up the database, the login, the audit-and-score screen, photo capture, the corrective-action engine, the approval gates, the trend view, the reminder emails, and the CSV import/export - each step ending with a ready-to-paste prompt.

The governance it includes (this is the point)

This isn't a toy. The plan builds in the controls that make a tool trustworthy on a plant floor:

  • Login so only your team can use it.
  • Row-level security so people only ever see their own organization's data.
  • A complete audit trail - who scored what, who approved which plan, who closed which action, and when.
  • A human approval gate before anything is committed: the area owner approves the corrective-action plan, and the auditor approves closure once the fix is verified. The AI drafts; people decide.
  • Duplicate guards so the same area+date audit can't be logged twice.

Who it's for

EHS coordinators, line supervisors, and continuous-improvement leads who run safety, 5S, or housekeeping audits and are tired of scores that nobody acts on. No coding experience needed - if you can fill out a checklist and answer questions about how your floor works, you can build this.

You've got this - paste the first prompt and let the agent interview you.

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Enter your email — the plan downloads instantly and a copy lands in your inbox.

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