Work-order coding that makes inspection fails findable later

At PHA scale, the repair usually happens — the record is what gets lost. A fail closed in the work-order system under a generic 'repair' code cannot be found at technical-review time, at the next inspection, or when the same item fails again and someone asks whether it is a repeat. The cheap discipline: every inspection-driven work order carries the inspection date, the deficiency name as written on the report, and a link or reference to the before-and-after photos. Repeat fails then become a report you can run instead of a memory you argue about. How does your agency code inspection work — and can you pull last cycle's repeats today? — Otto Mergl, Admin