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Shift Handover Log 2027

A shift-by-shift record of plant state and outstanding work, signed off by the operator leaving and the one arriving.

Specification

Trim: 148 × 210 mm · 5.827 × 8.268 in
Pages: 400
Leaves: 200
Sheets: 100
Signatures: 20 × 20pp
Spine: 22.88 mm
Paper: white
Ruling: lined
Ruling pitch: 9.17 mm · 26.00 pt
Rows per page: 18
Year: 2027

A handover is the one moment in a shift where a fact can vanish without anyone noticing. The outgoing operator knows something the incoming one does not. If it does not get written down in the two minutes before the gate, it stays lost until it becomes a problem on someone else's watch.

Each shift gets its own block: the state of the plant as the shift ends, and what is still outstanding for the next one. A line for off and a line for on sits underneath, naming who is answering for the plant at each end of the shift.

Three shifts fit on one page, so a full day of handovers sits together rather than scattered across three separate slips that someone has to chase down later. The book does not decide what counts as outstanding. Whoever is walking off the floor decides that, every time, and writes it down before they leave.

What is inside

Handover: 365pp; State of plant and outstanding items for three shifts, each signed off and on.
Month: 12pp; One page a month, so a run of shifts sits under the month that held them.
Notes: 13pp; Lined pages for whatever a shift produced that the block was not built to hold.
Year: 1pp; The year laid out before the first shift is logged.

The film

Page by page

A vertical film from our own bench — this page contacts nobody's server to play it, and downloads nothing until you press play.

A vertical film, 52 seconds: the cover, the ruling page, then 5 reference pages. Synthesised ambient bed, no dialogue — captions in three languages.

Real pages

Five pages from the Shift Handover Log 2027 laid out as cards: a handover page with three shift blocks, a month page, a section divider, a lined notes page, and a reference page. — Five pages straight from the print file: a handover page with its three shift blocks, a month page, a section divider, a lined notes page, and a page from the reference material at the back. The handover page is the product; what a plant handover needs to transfer is not what a meeting or a delivery record needs, and the three-block layout exists so nobody has to improvise it at the end of a long shift.

Specification card listing the Shift Handover Log 2027 contents: 365 handover pages, 12 monthly pages, 13 notes pages, 400 pages total, A5 trim, twenty signatures of twenty. — 365 handover pages, three shift blocks each, recording plant state, outstanding items, and an off/on sign-off line. 12 monthly pages and a year overview sit alongside them. 13 lined notes pages close the book. 400 pages total, A5, twenty signatures of twenty.

Made at the Hibrkraft bindery, Bogor · about the maker

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Questions

What does one shift block record?

The state of the plant at the end of the shift, what is still outstanding, and a signature line for the operator going off and the one coming on.

How many shifts fit on a page?

Three, so a full day's handovers sit together rather than on three separate slips.

Is it dated?

Yes, laid out against the 2027 calendar, one page for every day of the year.

Who is it for?

Sites and plants running rotating shifts, where the person closing a shift and the person opening the next one may never actually meet.

What goes in outstanding?

Whatever the outgoing shift did not finish: a job half done, a part on order, an alarm that needs watching. The book does not decide what belongs there.