HARNESS INSPECTION LOG
GearCheck
Fall-protection & rigging gear log
A harness you inspected last week can still be finished, because the manufacturer's service life ran out four months ago. GearCheck keeps both dates against every item and lets the worse one decide.
14-day trial, then $1.99/mo,
$9.99/yr or $24.99 once. Android.
THE PART OTHER LOGS MISS
Most inspection logs count one interval and reset it every time you sign. Fall-protection gear has a second date that never resets, and it is the one that catches people out.
01
Resets on the day you log a formal inspection. GearCheck defaults to twelve months for every gear type and lets you override it per unit, so a manufacturer that mandates six months wins.
02
Runs from first use and never resets. When it is reached the item is overdue however recently it was inspected, and GearCheck says that on the record instead of quietly folding it into one status.
WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE ON ONE HARNESS
The inspection is current and the harness is still finished. GearCheck marks it overdue, prompts you to remove it from service, and drops it off the worklist once you do.
Soft goods age. Hardware wears. GearCheck encodes that difference rather than putting an expiry date on everything, because a chain sling with a made-up ten-year limit is worse than no limit at all. Both columns are defaults you can override on any unit.
| Gear type | Code | Formal inspection | Service life default |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-body harness | HAR | Every 12 months | 10 years |
| Lanyard / SRL | LAN | Every 12 months | 10 years |
| Rope / rope grab | RPE | Every 12 months | 10 years |
| Sling — synthetic | SL-S | Every 12 months | 10 years |
| Connector / carabiner | CON | Every 12 months | None — wear-based |
| Anchor / anchorage connector | ANC | Every 12 months | None — wear-based |
| Sling — chain | SL-C | Every 12 months | None — wear-based |
| Sling — wire rope | SL-W | Every 12 months | None — wear-based |
| Other | OTH | Every 12 months | None — wear-based |
The ten-year defaults reflect common manufacturer practice for webbing and other soft goods. They are a starting point, not a rule: check the instructions that came with the item and change the number if it differs.
A harness and a wire-rope sling fail in completely different ways, so they do not share one generic set of tick boxes. Pick the gear type once when you register the unit and every inspection form after that shows the criteria for that type. Each item is marked pass, fail or not applicable, and those marks print on the report.
HAR Full-body harness
SL-C Sling — chain
SL-W Sling — wire rope
Nine gear types are covered. The criteria stay in English in every language the app runs in, because translating a removal criterion changes what it means.
Six screens from the shipped build. The names, sites and serial numbers in them are sample data.
Three artefacts come out of the same records. Nothing uploads to make them.
TAG IMAGE
A card headed GEAR INSPECTION / COMPETENT-PERSON RECORD carrying the inspection type, date, inspector, company, serial and next formal due date, with the disclaimer along the bottom. Save it to the gallery or share it. A removal record prints no next-due date.
PDF · PER SITE
Titled Fall-Protection & Rigging Gear Inspection Report. The cover carries the company, competent person, qualification, site, address, contact and item count, plus the disclaimer. Then a gear table of serial, type, location, last formal, next formal due, service life and status; the service history as date, service, outcome, technician and notes; a signature block; and the photos. Pages are numbered.
PDF · PER UNIT
One item, end to end: type, rated capacity, serial, manufacturer, model, manufacture and first-use dates, location, last formal inspection, next formal due, manufacturer service life and whether it has been removed from service, followed by every inspection logged against it and the photos.
Fourteen days of everything when you install it, no card. After that, keep going on the free tier or pay once and be done. The lifetime unlock is the one most people want: nothing renews and it stays unlocked.
Whichever you pick, records you already made are never locked, hidden or deleted. They stay readable and re-exportable. The free tier only stops you adding new ones past the cap.
LIFETIME
$24.99once
Or $1.99 a month, or $9.99 a year. Prices set in US dollars.
No. It records an inspection you perform and works out the next-due and service-life dates from what you entered. You are the competent person deciding whether gear stays in service.
The formal inspection interval, which resets every time you log a formal inspection, and the manufacturer service life, which runs from first use and never resets. Whichever is worse sets the item’s status.
Then GearCheck shows no second clock for it. Connectors, anchors, chain slings and wire-rope slings are wear-based, so the app leaves that row out rather than inventing an expiry date.
Yes. The formal interval and the service life are both overridable per unit, so a manufacturer that mandates six months wins over the default. Setting a service life of zero means that unit has none.
Yes. Sites, gear, inspections, photos, tags and reports are stored on the phone. A connection is only used to serve ads on the free tier.
No. GearCheck has no notifications. The due list is something you open, not something that pings you, and it sorts by whichever clock is closest.
Nothing you already recorded is locked, hidden or deleted. It all stays readable and re-exportable. The free tier caps only new items: one site, ten gear items and one report.
No. There is no sign-up and no cloud copy. If you lose the phone, anything you have not exported goes with it.
This is the notice the app shows on the inspection form, on the tag, on the PDF cover and in Settings, word for word:
GearCheck helps you record fall-protection and rigging-gear inspections and compute next-due and service-life dates. It is not a certification, an inspection service, or legal/safety advice, and it does not guarantee that any item of gear or any record meets OSHA, ANSI/ASSP Z359.2, or your manufacturer's or authority's requirements. You are the competent person responsible for performing the inspection, deciding whether gear is fit for use or must be removed from service, and the accuracy and sufficiency of every record. Verify all criteria, intervals, and service-life limits against the current standards and the gear manufacturer's instructions.
Register one harness, put its first-use date in, and see which clock runs out first.