Labour allocation sheet template
A labour allocation sheet books each person's hours against the activities they worked on, so every hour on site can be accounted for and charged. Write the day's activities across the top, then fill in the hours person by person as the shift goes.
Free, with no sign-up. A4 landscape, one page. The spreadsheet adds up the totals for you.

What's on it
- Heading
- project, date, supervisor, area, shift and sheet no.
- Hours by activity
- name, trade, P / A, 8 activity columns and total, 12 rows, with a row to write each activity in and totals
- Signatures
- allocated by and checked by
New to it, or want to know what gets a sheet knocked back? How to run a daily activity briefing (DABS).
Keeping it in Dayworks
In Dayworks, the allocation is filled in on a phone, one worker at a time, against the activities from the briefing. Anyone without hours, or marked absent, is flagged before the end of the day.
Other templates
- Daywork sheetRecord the labour, plant and materials used on instructed daywork, with a box for the client's representative to sign on the day.
- Site diaryA day's record for one area: weather, labour, what was done against the plan, deliveries, visitors, instructions and delays, signed off at the end of the shift.
- Daily activity briefing (DABS)Plan each area's activities, plant, permits and deliveries for the shift, with the toolbox talk, the key risk and a sign-on for everyone briefed.