Posted By Bob Shillabeer It depends on why you do the inspection. Is ther inspection to meet a criteria to inspect at set frequency or to remedy any problems. If the later why not have three basic criteria. 1. If a significant risk that can result in an injury which is very likely to happen in the next few minutes with serious concequences, 2. A condition that can lead to a sugnificant accident but is unlikey to happen in the next whatever time scale say about a week, and 3, A condition that could cause rise to injury in the near future. This should lead to most decisions falling into category 2 and lead to remedial action being completed within a week and condition 1 where you take tyhe pice of kit out of service there and then or render the workplace out of bounds until the risk is corrected. You don't need to develop a complicated set of criteria just ensure the corrective action is completed as soon as possible and the immediate risk is controlled.