Working with no signal

Getting the phone ready

1. Open your Overview with signal. The phone quietly keeps a copy of your FLHA form, your company's forms, your workers and sites, the procedures and SDS, and your FLHAs from the last 7 days. A green shield at the top means it's ready — hover over it (or press and hold) to see what's saved.
2. Add Fieldtec to your home screen (Share → Add to Home Screen on an iPhone, the menu → Install app on Android), so it opens with no signal.
3. The copy updates every time you open the Overview with signal.

On site

With no signal the shield turns orange and says Offline — tap it. Tap New FLHA for the same four steps as online: fill it in, hand the phone round for the crew to read the PDF and sign, the supervisor signs last, then End of Shift. Take someone off the crew with ✕ if they aren't on shift. A supervisor other than you has to be named before it saves, the same as online. Procedures and SDS open from the phone's copy; policies need signal.

Forms are listed under the FLHAs. Fill one in exactly as you would online — photos and signatures included — and tap Submit. It waits on the phone and uploads with everything else.

A photo question takes as many photos as you need. Each photo you take or pick is added to the list under the question, with a small preview; Remove sits under each one, so tapping the photo itself never takes it off.

Scan the FieldView QR (or open Fieldtec from the home screen) with no signal and you get the same tiles as always, plus your certificates and training as of the last time the phone had signal. Report an Incident, Report Observation and Inspections fill in exactly as online and say Saved on this phone; the Notice Board, Safety Data Sheets and Quick Reference open from the phone's copy. A supervisor's or admin's phone also opens a worker's hardhat or pocket-card QR, showing their tickets as of the last time the phone had signal.

Uploading

Nothing to tap. As soon as the phone has signal, anything waiting uploads by itself and gets its number (CDH for an FLHA, FRM for a form, INC, OBS or INS for a report) — from field mode, and from any page of the full app. Upload now is there if you'd rather not wait. An FLHA uploaded this way is marked as completed with no signal.

If field mode opened because the signal dropped, it goes back to the full app by itself once everything has uploaded, landing on FieldView. It never does this in the middle of a form or an FLHA, and it stays in field mode if you opened it on purpose with signal.