> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.qrtub.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Construction

> Where QRtub fits on a construction site: plant that changes hands daily, subcontractors with no logins, and tags that have to survive the job.

On a construction site the person who needs the information usually does not work for the company
that holds it.

## Where QRtub fits

Site software assumes accounts. Inductions, prestart records, permits and plant registers all sit
behind a login belonging to the principal contractor — which is right for the record, and useless
for the subcontractor's operator standing in front of the machine at six in the morning.

QRtub puts the address on the plant itself. What the code opens can be the prestart form today and
a different one when the site's systems change, without going back around the yard.

## What gets tagged

* Plant and machinery, hired and owned
* Power tools and leads carrying test tags
* Height safety equipment — harnesses, lanyards, anchor points
* Scaffold, formwork and temporary works
* Site sheds, switchboards and generators
* Materials and prefabricated elements awaiting installation

## QRtub is particularly useful when

* **Subcontractors operate your plant.** They will not be issued accounts in your systems for a
  three-week package, and a prestart nobody can complete is a prestart that does not happen.
* **The same machine moves between sites** run by different principals, each with different
  software.
* **Inspections repeat on a cycle** — quarterly on leads, six-monthly on height safety — and the
  physical tag is already the accepted way of showing the last one.
* **A defect needs reporting by whoever finds it**, not by whoever has the app.
  See [Let anyone report a fault](/how/report-a-fault).
* **You are printing before the register is finished.** Plant arrives over months; codes are
  cheapest produced in one run.
* **Something has to point at a document, not a system** — a plant risk assessment, an operating
  procedure, a lift plan.

## The problems you'll hit

1. [One tag, your team and the public](/how/team-and-public) — your supervisor and a
   subcontractor's operator from one code
2. [Let anyone report a fault](/how/report-a-fault) — defects raised without an account
3. [An on-hire flag](/how/on-hire-flag) — plant that is yours this month and hired the next
4. [Make the installation earn its keep](/how/earn-its-keep) — a tag that survives the job

## Works with

| Tool                           | What a scan opens                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Mitti**                      | A prestart or plant inspection template — [guide](/integrations/mitti/setup)                                                 |
| **Google Forms**               | A free prestart or defect form, no account needed — [guide](/integrations/google-forms/overview)                             |
| **Jotform**                    | The same with photos and a signature — [guide](/integrations/jotform)                                                        |
| **MaintainX**                  | A maintenance request from the machine — [guide](/integrations/maintainx)                                                    |
| **SharePoint or Google Drive** | Risk assessments, procedures, plans — [Microsoft 365](/integrations/microsoft-365) · [Drive](/integrations/google-workspace) |
| **YouTube**                    | A short operating or safety video — [guide](/integrations/youtube)                                                           |
| **Google Maps**                | Where a piece of plant is meant to be — [guide](/integrations/google-maps)                                                   |

A plant register in a spreadsheet is a perfectly good starting point. What QRtub adds is that the
machine can reach its own row.

## Typical Item fields

Plant number · description · make and model · serial · owner or hire company · current site ·
prestart template · last inspection · next test due · risk assessment URL

## Related

* [What Is a Tag?](/tags/what-is-a-tag) — what survives concrete dust and a wash-down
* [Field Bindings](/destinations/field-bindings) — carrying the plant number into the form