PDF COC's

[Isetech]

Some randon usless information, which is going to make my life a whole lots simpler.

I am sure everyone else knows this already, but hey, I only learnt it today.

I have a stack of old 4 page COC from back in the day, which I now use the numbers to issue COC's in the new format. Some might say it is illegal, well so is issuing dodgy, non compliant COc's and nobody seems t ocare about that.

I dont see a problem with it, they wer epurchased and just never used, its still a legal document, regisatered to my name, anyway back to why I started this post.

I am sitting here this morning catching up with admin work again and preparing COC's for installation I have completed.

In the past I would open the PDF and use the fill and sign option ( I have my signiture saved), I would fill out the document and save it, what I learnt today is that as soon as you paste your signiture on the PDF you can not edit the document. I know you all sitting going we knew that already, well I didnt and this is going to save me a lot of time.

Now I can fill out the document, save it as a pdf, open it at any point and modify or update the COC and all the test reports attached, once I am happy with the details, made any modification required then I can sign and send it.

What I do is attach the printed copy to the blank original and put it in file 13 with the rest of them.

[Isetech]

What is so cool about using the pdf document, you can load it onto a tablet, take it too site fill in the data as you do the tests.

In the past I would print out copies and write everything o nthe copy, then go back to the office and fill out the original document and 9 out of 10 times make some stupid mistkae and have to use another original.

This makes life so much easier, easpecially for when we doing test report for big sites like suger mills, hospitals, factories and comercial sites.

When we did a test reports for a suger mill, I took a laptop with and had a person capturing all the data in XL spreadsheets, it took weeks to finalise all the data and make sure it was correct.