The last inspection is a fact about the past, not a promise from the present.

An inspection certifies a moment that has already passed. It says the thing was sound when someone looked, which is genuinely valuable and is not a statement about today. Everything that has happened since is outside what the record covers.

This is worth holding whenever you rely on a credential, a check, or a past assessment: a qualification, a reference, a report, a clean bill of health. All of them describe a previous state. The useful follow-up question is what has changed since, and how anyone would know. Records point backwards, and the confidence they inspire tends to point forwards.