Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
s’autocontrôlent
English translation:
perform self-inspection
French term
Translation is depth of the passion
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English, English to French, Portuguese to English
s’autocontrôlent
En cours de fabrication, les techniciens s’autocontrôlent suivant les instructions de l’ordre de fabrication. Les résultats du contrôle sont consignés sur l'ordre de fabrication du produit.
| 4 +1 | perform self-checking |
Tony M
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| 4 | check their work |
cc in nyc
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| 3 | carry out self checks |
philippe vandevivere
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Dec 17, 2010 22:56: Tony M changed "Field" from "Other" to "Bus/Financial" , "Field (specific)" from "Materials (Plastics, Ceramics, etc.)" to "Manufacturing"
Dec 19, 2010 13:33: pooja_chic Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
France
PhD Biotech & process engineer
Native in: French 
Works in: Dutch to French, English to French, Spanish to French, and 3 more.
check their work
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Note added at 5 hrs (2010-12-18 03:23:06 GMT)
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As suggested by Tony_M, "check their own work" is to be considered (but only if the workers are definitely not checking each other's work).
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Tony M
: Except that I think it's quite important to say 'check their own work'
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Thank you for your comment. It might be important, if that's indeed the case – but it occurred to me that they might be checking each other's work.
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writeaway
: agree with Tony. actually leaving out 'own' is leaving out the 'auto' part of s'autocontrôler'. which basically makes it a mistranslation
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Thank you for your comment.I think that "check their own work" sounds fine, if that's indeed what they are doing. I believe that pooja_chic will know how to handle it.
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B D Finch
: Self-check is a standard term and couldn't be misunderstood, in the way you suggest, by anybody in the workplace. Checking each other's work would be "se contrôlent mutuellement".
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thank you for your comment. it is addressed by the Note I added earlier to the Explanation.
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perform self-checking
There are plenty of examples on Google — a lot from software contexts, of course, but plenty from QA and similar contexts too.
Although this particular one is from a foreign site, I thought it was sufficiently close to your context to be interesting:
Dei Ming International Co., Ltd
2) assembly line workers perform self-checking, special checking as well as overall technicians quality random checking;. 3) sampling and testing for every ...
www.deiminginternational.com/
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auto... definitely does suggest "their own work", otherwise I feel sure the idea of inter-worker checking would be expressed differently in FR.
| Thanks Tony...your answer has helped me to search more |
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B D Finch
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Thanks, Barbara!
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kashew
: Maybe just "self-check"?
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Thanks, J! Personally, I feel less comofrtable with this neologism as a verb, but there you go...
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cc in nyc
: "Self-checking" sounds to me like the workers are checking themselves (their bodies/clothes)
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I think in the context of the document as a whole, it would not be perversely misread; after all, I didn't suggest "Check themselves", which would indeed lend itself to the interpretation you suggest!
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