01
It arrives as a photo of a piece of paper
A docket, a signed form, a safe work method statement. Someone photographs it on a phone, emails it, and it becomes an attachment nobody can search. The information is technically captured and practically gone.
02
The register is a spreadsheet with opinions
It works, right up until two people open it. Then there are versions, and the version with the correct data is not the version with the recent date.
03
The evidence exists, but not in order
You have everything the reviewer wants. It is spread across an inbox, a shared drive and somebody's ute. Assembling it takes three days you did not schedule, which is exactly when a general environmental duty question tends to arrive.
04
One person knows how it all fits
They are excellent. They are also on leave, and the process left with them. This is the risk nobody puts on a risk register.