Manager verification

Many quality systems require that an inspection be checked by someone other than the person who ran it. FreeMaint supports that as a verification step you turn on per template.

Turning it on

Open an inspection template and set the Verified by field to the person expected to check its runs. That single choice is what enables the step. Leave it empty and nothing changes anywhere — no template has verification unless you ask for it.

Verifying a run

Once a run of that template is completed, it shows as Pending in the Verification column of Inspections to do, next to a Verify button. Verifying records who checked it and when, and the run then reads Verified. Everyone can see the state; only a user with the verification permission can act on it.

The one rule

The person who completed an inspection cannot verify it. That separation is the point of the control — an inspection signed off by its own author is not evidence. Verification is a workflow milestone available on every paid plan; it is separate from the cryptographic e-signature, which is a Business feature.

Verification and e-signature answer different questions: one records that a second person checked the work, the other proves who signed.