Foreman daily log · PDF + Excel
A construction daily report is a one-page record of what happened on the job today: who was on site and for how long, what got done, what was delivered, what held you up, and anything that went wrong. Fill it out before you leave the site, not on Thursday. Download the free one-page template as a PDF or Excel file below.
One page, letter size. Print a stack for the clipboard in the truck, or fill in the Excel file on a laptop. No email, no signup.
This isn't a four-page superintendent form. It's one sheet a foreman on a small crew will actually fill out in the truck before he heads home, with the crew's hours right up front.
Here's every box on the template, in the order it appears:
Here's what a good one looks like. This is a made-up masonry day, just for the example:
Crew:
| Name | Role | W-2 / 1099 | Start | End | Lunch | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | Foreman / mason | W-2 | 7:00 | 3:30 | 30 min | 8.0 |
| Dave | Mason | W-2 | 7:00 | 3:30 | 30 min | 8.0 |
| Luis | Laborer | W-2 | 7:00 | 3:30 | 30 min | 8.0 |
| Tony | Sub (pump) | 1099 | 10:00 | 1:00 | none | 3.0 |
The lunch column is on this paper form. The example hours already subtract that lunch.
That's it. Ten minutes in the truck, and anybody who asks about Tuesday a month from now gets a straight answer.
A daily report, or daily log, is the job's day: what happened on site. A time card is each guy's hours. On big jobs those are different people's paperwork. On a small crew, the foreman usually does both, which is why this template keeps a crew-hours box on the daily report.
If you need the weekly hours for each guy on one sheet, grab the construction timesheet template. If your cards are in hours and minutes, this chart helps you convert minutes to decimal hours.
If hours keep going missing between the job and the office, here's how contractors track crew hours without the Thursday rebuild.
If the crew-hours box is the part you're always chasing, that's what My Guys Time does. Each guy joins the crew team from his own phone, he or the foreman logs the hours daily in the browser, the foreman approves the week and adds incident notes on the day something goes wrong, and receipt photos ride on the card. W-2 guys and 1099 subs sit on the same board. $12/month flat for the whole company.
To be straight with you: it's a time card, not a full daily-report app. It doesn't do weather, deliveries or job logs. Keep using this template for that. More on construction time tracking for small crews.
The job and date, weather, who was on site and their hours, work completed, deliveries, equipment, visitors and inspections, delays, safety incidents and near misses, photos, and the foreman's signature. Keep each one short.
Usually the foreman or lead on site, before the crew leaves for the day.
Several construction apps include daily logs. This template costs nothing and works on paper or in Excel. My Guys Time covers crew hours, foreman approval, incident notes and receipt photos for $12/month flat for the whole company, but it isn't a daily-report app.
Mostly the name. Some GCs call the superintendent's own record the "daily log" and the version that goes to the customer the "daily report." For a small crew, one sheet does both jobs.
That depends on your contract and the job, so we can't give a legal answer. Plenty of owners keep one anyway, because it settles "what happened that day" questions fast.