Why should a coworker sign off as a witness for an engineering notebook to double check the work many engineers skip this essential step because fraud is common in engineering this step is needed only for inexperienced engineers

A coworker or a colleague should go over the entries and confirm the events and facts on each page and then date or sign as the witness in the specified location. Apart from the witness, no one else should write on an engineer’s notebook.  

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