Reporter and context
Identify who stopped what work.
Capture worker, crew, shift, job, exact location, and task so responders can find the condition.
- Worker and crew or contractor
- Date, time, shift, and location
- Task, permit, or asset reference
Free stop work authority form builder
Free AI Stop Work Authority Form Generator
Describe your work and escalation path. Makeform creates a stop work authority form for the hazard, immediate controls, notifications, corrective work, and restart review.
- Unlimited free forms and responses
- Editable before publishing
- Hazard photos and location details
- Built for field safety workflows
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Sample prompts for the builder
Choose a starting point, adapt it, and send the prompt to the Makeform builder.
Prompt ready4 formats
Audience
Tradespeople and supervisors on active job sites
Format
Mobile report with photos and escalation
Prompt size
282 chars
Brief qualitySends to builder
Example form structure
Mobile report with photos and escalation
Prompt exampleEditable in builder
Who stopped the work, and where?
Short answerFirst ask
2
Describe the unsafe condition
Long answer
3
What immediate controls were applied?
Checkboxes
4
Upload photos of the condition
File upload
5
Restart review and decision
Approval
Suggested routing tags
Work stopped
Review required
Cleared to resume
Separate the person who invokes the stop from the person who reviews restart conditions, and record both timestamps.
Step 1
Stop
pause the task and protect the area
Step 2
Report
capture the hazard, location, and exposure
Step 3
Correct
assign controls and verify completion
Step 4
Resume
record the decision, owner, and time
Why structured reporting matters
A spoken stop protects the moment. A form protects the follow-through.
Keep the hazard, controls, notifications, corrective work, and restart review connected in one record.
Make the stopped state visible
Record the affected task, boundary, restrictions, and temporary controls.
Notify the right owners
Route location, exposure, photos, and status to the response team.
Close the loop before restart
Keep corrections, verification, restrictions, reviewer, and restart time together.
One workflow, many hazards
Adapt the form to the work without weakening the handoff.
Use conditional sections for each crew while preserving the essential timeline.
Construction and field work
Project, trade, permit, nearby crews, barricades, and supervisor notification.
Equipment and maintenance
Asset, operating state, energy, guards, isolation, repair, and functional check.
Warehouse and logistics
Shift, aisle or dock, traffic exposure, load, spill controls, and reopening.
Contractor coordination
Employer, customer, job, shared notifications, actions, and joint verification.
Build the workflow
Turn your stop work process into a form crews can use in the field.
Start with the work context, then shape a short reporting path and a controlled review section for supervisors.
01
Describe work and escalation
List tasks, sites, hazards, responsible roles, and notification recipients.
02
Separate report from review
Keep worker reporting fast and label the supervisor review section.
03
Add conditional questions
Show isolation, weather, or dock questions only when relevant.
04
Route each record
Notify the response team and send submissions into follow-up workflows.
Reporting options
Choose a record that follows the stop through resolution.
The best method is quick enough at the point of work and detailed enough for the safety team to understand what remains open.
Approach
What it captures
Where it falls short
ApproachPhone call or radio
What it capturesImmediate alert and a quick description
Where it falls shortDetails, photos, ownership, and restart evidence can disappear after the call.
ApproachPaper stop card
What it capturesReporter, location, hazard, and basic action
Where it falls shortReview status is hard to share, search, update, or route across shifts.
Approach
Generated online form
What it capturesInitial stop, evidence, notifications, corrective work, verification, and restart record
Where it falls shortNeeds your site roles and process language configured before rollout.
Field guide
What a stop work authority form should include.
These six sections keep the stop and follow-up understandable across roles and shifts.
Hazard and exposure
Describe the unsafe condition plainly.
Combine a hazard category with a required narrative and supporting photos.
- Hazard category and description
- People or equipment exposed
- Photos or observable evidence
Immediate controls
Record how the scene was stabilized.
Document the paused activity, barricade, shutdown, warning, and current boundary status.
- Task, equipment, or area stopped
- Temporary controls and boundary
- Whether exposure remains
Notification
Create a visible escalation trail.
Record each person or role contacted, the method, and the time.
- Supervisor and safety contact
- Notification method and timestamp
- Site or customer contacts
Correction and verification
Assign actions that can be checked.
Give each control an owner, due time, completion evidence, and verification result.
- Action, owner, and due time
- Completion notes and evidence
- Verifier and remaining restrictions
Restart record
Name the decision and preserve the time.
Record whether work resumes, stays stopped, or resumes with restrictions, plus reviewer and time.
- Restart or restricted status
- Reviewer and decision timestamp
- Conditions shared with the crew
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Open toolFAQ
Stop work authority form questions
Practical answers for safety managers building a consistent stop, review, and restart record.
What is a stop work authority form?
It records a task paused for an unsafe condition, including the location, hazard, controls, notifications, corrective work, verification, and restart decision.
Who should be able to submit the form?
Give access to the workers, contractors, supervisors, and visitors covered by your process. Use plain language and a mobile-friendly link or QR code where appropriate.
What should the worker complete immediately?
Ask for reporter, time, location, task, hazard, exposure, immediate controls, current status, photos, and notifications. Put follow-up and restart review in a separate section.
Should the form include a restart authorization section?
Include a restart decision record when it matches your process. Capture verified actions, restrictions, named reviewer, timestamp, and communication to the crew.
Can workers upload photos from the field?
Yes. Add uploads for the hazard, temporary controls, and corrections. Also require a description because an image may not show the full exposure.
Can the form notify a safety manager right away?
Yes. Route submissions through email, Slack, Google Sheets, or Zapier, including location, hazard summary, and current stopped status.
How do we prevent incomplete follow-up records?
Require an owner, due time, completion evidence, verification result, and restart status. Use conditional questions for relevant site details.
Is the stop work authority form generator free?
Yes. Makeform provides unlimited free forms and responses. The paid tier only removes the Makeform badge.
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