Equipment tracking for roofing contractors
Fall protection and ladders, tracked by crew and by roof
Roofing crews split up across jobs every morning and take harnesses, anchors, ladders and nailers with them. FlowNext records which crew has what, and keeps each item's inspections with it.
No card. Unlimited field users. From $39/month.
FlowNextWhat a tech sees after scanning a tag with their phone camera
Where it goes wrong today
Inspection records per harness
When a harness is inspected, the record goes on that harness. If one is damaged, a crew lead scans it and marks it out of service on the roof.
Crews swap gear
Nailers and compressors trade between crews all week. A scan when they move keeps the list honest without a sign-out sheet.
Storm season surge
When you add temporary crews, add them as field users — free — instead of buying seats.
What roofing contractors tag first
- Full-body harnesses and lanyards
- Roof anchors and lifelines
- Extension ladders and ladder hoists
- Coil and cap nailers
- Air compressors
- Tear-off machines
Locations are whatever matches how you work: “Crew 2 trailer”, “Yard”, “Maple Ridge HOA - Building 14”. Every move is recorded with who made it and when.
New accounts can start from a ready-made Roofing category set: Harnesses and lanyards, Roof anchors and lifelines, Ladders, Ladder hoists, Nailers, and Compressors, each with a typical inspection or service interval you can change.
Inspections and due dates
OSHA 1926.502(d)(21) requires personal fall arrest systems to be inspected before each use, and a damaged system must be removed from service. A crew lead can report a defect from the tag in seconds, and the item shows as out of service to everyone.
A harness inspection log that lives on the harness
Each harness kit — harness, lanyard, its storage bag — gets its own tag. When your competent person does the periodic documented inspection, a photo of the signed form goes on that kit as an inspection document, with the date it was done and when the next is due.
On the roof, a crew lead who finds a cut lanyard scans the kit and reports it. The kit shows as out of service to anyone who scans it, the office gets an email naming the kit, the problem and who reported it, and the report is in the kit's history for good.
When an insurer or a general contractor asks for your fall protection records, the inspection compliance report lists every kit with its last inspection, its due date and which crew has it, as a PDF.
FlowNext doesn't record the before-each-use check your crews do on the roof. It keeps the periodic inspections, the defects and who had the kit — the parts that get asked for after the fact.
How tags, phone updates and reports work in detail: features. Plans and limits: pricing.
Questions
Does a defect report stop the item being used?+
It marks the item out of service immediately, records who reported it and why, and shows that status to anyone who scans it. Removing it physically is still up to your crew.
Do temporary crew members cost extra?+
No. Field users are unlimited on every plan.
Does FlowNext record pre-use harness checks?+
Not as a checklist. It records the periodic documented inspections, defects reported from the tag and who had each kit.
Tag your first ten items this afternoon
14-day free trial, no card. Unlimited field users on every plan, from $39/month after that.