Labour is on site and nobody records what it did

Your timesheets prove the hours were paid. Nothing proves what those hours were spent on. Productivity drops when the gang is moved, the area isn't ready or the work goes out of sequence. The cost lands in the labour account and vanishes there. In the records your business keeps, a paid hour and a productive hour look the same.

Labour allocation fixes that. It means putting each person's hours against an activity and an area, every day. The gap between planned and actual effort can then be measured, not just asserted. A claim backed by allocation sheets traces to activities, hours and notes made at the time.

Without them, the lost hours cannot be separated from the paid ones. More of the claim then rests on rebuilding events later, which is much harder to prove.

Fill in a labour allocation sheet every day. Put each person's hours against the activity and area they actually worked, from one fixed list of activities. Record every move between areas when it happens. The sheets then tie back to payroll and progress records, so lost hours can be measured and priced instead of guessed months later.

Delay & Disruption Loss Prevention builds the sheet into your wages routine, so your team keeps filling it in. Extra hours on their own still do not prove what caused them. That stays a separate question.