Health and safety software

Health and safety software,
signed where the work is.

Unibuild keeps RAMS, permits to work, scaffold and plant inspections, COSHH, accidents and toolbox talks against the job. Built for construction and the specialist trades, it supports your CDM 2015 duties from the construction phase plan to the health and safety file. Everything is signed on the phone, even where there is no signal.

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Open items, all sitesMonday, 07:30
  • Telehandler examinationOut of service
  • Scaffold, Block BInspection due Tuesday
  • Hot work, south gableFire watch running
  • Accident, eight days offRIDDOR due in 7 days
  • Near miss, loose handrailInvestigation open
  • CSCS cards, two operativesExpire in 90 days
  • Toolbox talk, Site 212 signed today
An example of the director’s screen across every site: amber before a date, red once it has passed.
Problems we solve

Eleven health and safety problems. All eleven solved.

From the scaffold inspection that lapsed on Tuesday to the near miss lost in the group chat.

11/11Solved in one module
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Solved

A scaffold still in use after its inspection fell due

What goes wrong

Falls from height caused over half of all construction deaths in Great Britain over the last five years. Regulation 12 of the Work at Height Regulations 2005 covers any construction platform with a fall of two metres or more. It must have been inspected within the previous seven days before anyone uses it.

Every scaffold and tower keeps its own clock, on a tag and a clipboard. Nobody is told when one runs out.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, each standing scaffold carries its own next inspection date, and one page shows them all: amber as the date approaches, red once it has passed.

The inspection itself is signed on the phone at the scaffold, not typed up that evening. A competent person still carries out every inspection.

  • A date on every scaffold
  • Amber before, red after
  • Signed at the scaffold

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

Lifting equipment still working after its thorough examination ran out

What goes wrong

Regulation 9 of LOLER 1998 requires lifting equipment to be thoroughly examined before first use and, where it is exposed to wear, at least every twelve months. Chains, slings and other accessories, and anything that lifts people, need it every six months, unless an examination scheme sets the interval.

The certificate is in a box in the yard and the next date is in nobody’s diary. A machine used past that date is already in breach, before anything has gone wrong.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, lifting and work equipment sit on a register, each item with its examination report and next due date. The plant manager is alerted thirty days before it falls due.

If the examination is not renewed, the item goes out of service when it lapses. Anything out of test is flagged before it is signed out.

  • Thirty days’ notice
  • Out of service when it lapses
  • Flagged before it leaves the yard

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

Work started without the asbestos survey on site

What goes wrong

Regulation 5 of the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 comes before the first hole is drilled. Work that could expose employees to asbestos does not start until the employer has assessed whether it is there, or assumes it is.

The survey usually exists, in the client’s email or a folder at the office, and the team opening the ceiling void has not seen it. Asbestos-related disease kills around 5,000 people a year, the greatest cause of work-related death in Great Britain.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, the asbestos register, the management plan and the survey records sit against the job, so the supervisor checks the area before the team goes near it.

Work notifications, exposure monitoring and health surveillance are tracked in the same place, each with its date.

  • Survey on the job record
  • Checked before work starts
  • Notifications and surveillance tracked

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Solved

A near miss mentioned in the group chat and never acted on

What goes wrong

The loose handrail is mentioned in the site WhatsApp on Wednesday morning. By Friday it has scrolled out of sight. Nobody wrote it down, so nobody investigated it, and nothing changed.

HSE’s guidance on investigating accidents and incidents (HSG245) says learning from near misses can prevent costly accidents. After a serious one, the sentencing guideline lists failing to act on earlier incidents as a mark of high culpability, and the fine rises with it.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, a near miss takes about twenty seconds on the phone. A subcontractor’s labourer or a visitor can report one from the code on the site poster, with no login.

The safety manager has it straight away, an investigation opens, and it stays on the office’s alerts until somebody records what was done about it.

  • Twenty seconds on the phone
  • No login needed to report
  • Open until the fix is recorded

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

Hot works with no record of when the fire watch ended

What goes wrong

Welding, grinding and brazing leave heat in the fabric after the torch goes off. HSE’s guidance on fire safety in construction (HSG168) calls for a continuous fire watch for at least an hour after hot work stops.

Where the insurer or the contract applies the Joint Code of Practice, checks follow at least every twenty minutes for a further hour. After a fire, the insurer asks for the permit and the fire watch record, and a paper permit with blanks is a weak answer.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, the welder requests the permit on the phone and the site manager approves it with the fire precautions, the isolations and the fire watch set out. Each permit is time-bound and carries its own reference.

Closing it out on the phone records who closed it and when. Open permits show on the director’s screen, and the PDF goes to the client and the insurer.

  • Time-bound, with a reference
  • Fire watch on the permit
  • Open permits on one screen

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Solved

An HSE inspector asking for records the firm cannot find

What goes wrong

An inspector can arrive without notice and ask to see documents. The permits are in a book in the cabin, the plant certificates in a box, the accident book with somebody on leave.

Where the inspector finds a material breach, HSE charges for the time it takes to identify it and see it put right, under Fee for Intervention. Where there is a risk of serious injury, a prohibition notice can stop the work on the spot.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, permits, inspections and incident reports are made on site as the work happens, and filed against the job with the plant certificates and the construction phase plan.

They are found by site and date rather than searched for, and export as one PDF. Every sign-off and change is recorded with the person and the time, and cannot be edited afterwards.

  • Filed as the job runs
  • Found by site and date
  • One PDF when asked

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Solved

A RIDDOR deadline missed because the clock started at the accident

What goes wrong

Under RIDDOR 2013, an injury that keeps somebody from their routine work for more than seven consecutive days must be reported within fifteen days of the accident. Nobody knows it qualifies until day eight, when over half the window has gone.

HSE estimates that only around half of reportable injuries to employees are reported. An event judged not reportable needs its reasoning on record, for when somebody asks a year later.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, the accident report records whether the event is reportable and why. The reporting window is flagged, and alerts go out by email and by push notification in your own app.

A PDF laid out for the report is ready when the responsible person makes it, and the date it was made stays on the record.

  • Reportable or not, with the reason
  • Window flagged, alerts sent
  • The report date on record

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

Accident figures for a pre-qualification, counted again by hand

What goes wrong

SSIP assessments ask for the same evidence at every renewal. That includes a signed policy, any enforcement action and the firm’s RIDDOR figures for the previous three years.

Where that record is an accident book and three spreadsheets, the figures are counted by hand each time. A late or incomplete answer can keep the firm off an approved list, and the work goes to somebody else.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, every accident and near miss is recorded against the job with its date, so the incident figures come from the record, not from a count.

For SMAS, CHAS, Constructionline and Achilles, the certificates, RAMS, training matrix and incident statistics export as the bundle the scheme asks for. You make the submission, with the evidence already assembled.

  • Figures from the live record
  • One bundle per scheme
  • Ready before it is asked for

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

An injury claim that arrives years after the accident

What goes wrong

An injured worker usually has three years from the injury to bring a claim. By then the supervisor has moved on, the site is finished, and the accident book went with the cabin.

The pre-action protocol gives the insurer three months to investigate. It expects the accident book entry, the RIDDOR report, the risk assessments and any investigation report, and without them there is little to defend with.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, the accident report follows the order in which an inspector, an insurer or a claimant’s solicitor asks their questions. Each signature is dated, and the RIDDOR position is stated.

It stays against the job, next to the site diary for that day, long after the site and the people have moved on.

  • Written as it will be read
  • Every signature dated
  • Kept after the site closes

See it working in a 30-minute demo.

Solved

A COSHH register nobody has touched since its owner left

What goes wrong

Regulation 6 of COSHH 2002 requires a suitable and sufficient assessment before work that exposes employees to a hazardous substance, reviewed regularly. HSE believes over 500 construction workers die from silica dust exposure every year.

The register is a spreadsheet kept by somebody who has since left. Datasheets are missing, reviews have lapsed, and the auditor asks for it on the first morning.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, each hazardous substance holds its safety data sheet and supplier, linked to the jobs, materials and purchase orders that use it.

COSHH assessments are written once and operatives sign them on the phone, the same way as a RAMS. The AI drafts an assessment from the safety data sheet and checks it before issue, and a person finalises it.

Review dates are tracked, every version is kept, and the current one is the one out on site. Any substance can be found by name or supplier. The COSHH guide covers the law, with a free COSHH assessment template.

  • A datasheet for every substance
  • Tied to the job
  • Review dates tracked

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Solved

A health and safety file assembled from boxes at handover

What goes wrong

On a project with more than one contractor, regulation 12 of CDM 2015 requires a health and safety file, handed to the client at the end. The principal contractor must pass on what it holds for the file as the job runs.

In practice it is gathered at the end, from the cabin, the shared drive and three inboxes. The file arrives late, with gaps nobody can now fill.

How Unibuild solves it

In Unibuild, the construction phase plan, permits, incident records, welfare checks and plant records sit against the project from the first day.

At handover that evidence exports as one PDF for the principal designer, who prepares the file, and for the client who keeps it.

  • Filed from the first day
  • One PDF at handover
  • Nothing rebuilt at the end

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In daily use since 2016

Built inside working trade firms, and run by them every day.

20 sec
A near miss, reported on the phone
7 years
Every record and log kept
1 PDF
The health and safety file evidence at handover

It has genuinely changed the way we work for the better, improving our record-keeping, automating processes and standardising practices across the company, saving us both time and money.

Niki Scarth, office administrator at SME Building Services, standing in the firm’s Croydon office with the SME Building Services mark on the wall behind her Niki ScarthOffice administrator, SME Building Services LtdRead the SME case study
What is in the module

Every safety record, made
where the work happens.

Your firm already keeps these records, on paper, in a spreadsheet or in the foreman’s head. In Unibuild each one is made on site at the time, with who did what and when. Unibuild is bespoke software, so the forms and sign-off chains follow your own process, and anything missing is built inside the monthly fee.

Accidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences, reported on the phone, investigated and closed out.

  • Near misses from the site poster
  • Reportable or not, with the reason
  • Reporting window flagged
  • A PDF laid out for the report
Inside · Accidents, near missesRIDDOR guide

Hot work, work at height, ladders and steps, lone working, isolation and limitation of access, each with its own sign-off.

  • Numbered and time-bound
  • Sign-off chain per type
  • PDF for the cabin wall
  • Who signed and when, on file
Inside · Every permit typeThe permits

RAMS

Trade

Risk assessments and method statements by trade: hazards, controls, residual risk and PPE, checked by AI before release.

  • Around forty starters by trade
  • AI review before it goes out
  • Signed on the phone or a link
  • Read in the operative’s language
Inside · RA, method statementsRAMS software

Approved toolbox talks delivered on the phone, and a training matrix for every operative.

  • Talks signed on any phone
  • Matrix per operative and role
  • Tickets shown 90 days ahead
  • CSCS cards checked
Inside · Talks, matrixToolbox talks

Hazardous substances, suppliers and safety data sheets, linked to the jobs, materials and purchase orders that use them.

  • A data sheet per substance
  • AI drafts the assessment
  • Signed on the phone
  • Review dates tracked
Inside · Substances, data sheetsCOSHH guide

Lifting and work equipment registers, thorough examinations, pre-use checks and defect reports.

  • Examination dates flagged
  • Pre-use checks on the phone
  • Defects logged with photos
  • Out of service when it lapses
Inside · Registers, PATPlant registers

Register, management plan, surveys, work notifications, exposure monitoring and health surveillance.

  • Laid out to CAR 2012
  • Survey records on the job
  • Notifications tracked
  • Surveillance dates set
Inside · Register, surveysFree register

CDM 2015 welfare checks for the site, DSE assessments for the office, and manual handling on top.

  • Welfare facilities checklist
  • DSE for office staff
  • Noise and vibration records
  • Feeds the health and safety file
Inside · Welfare, DSEWelfare guide
Permit to work software

Every permit in one stack.
A PDF for the cabin wall.

Each permit type has its own questions and its own sign-off chain. They share one numbering, one record of who signed and when, and the same PDF. The auditor sees a stack, not a folder.

Permit
to work

PTW

The general permit, including electrical and mechanical isolation, with the points of isolation and earthing named.

IsolationAuthorise to cancel

Hot
work

Fire

Welding, grinding and brazing: fire precautions, equipment checks, isolations and the fire watch. A PDF for the client and the insurer.

Fire watchAn hour, then checks

Work
at height

Drop

Access equipment, fall protection, supervision and edge protection, set out for the task in one form.

Laid out toWork at Height 2005

Ladders
and steps

Task

Task-specific permits for when a ladder or a podium is the right tool, linked to the operative’s training and current card.

Time-boundPer shift

Lone
working

Solo

The task, the place and the controls for somebody working alone, with check-ins the app asks them for when each one is due.

Check-insPrompted when due

Limitation
of access

Area

For an area or a system closed to others while the work is under way. Raised on the phone and closed out the same way.

Closed outSigned, with the time

Free editable permit to work and hot work permit templates are on the downloads page, and permits to work, explained covers who may issue one.

A safety Tuesday

One Tuesday,
record by record.

An ordinary working day. Each event below is one tap on the phone and one more record in the file, ready the next time somebody asks for it.

06:30Pre-start

Twenty-two operatives sign the RAMS at the gate.

QR clock-in brings up today’s RAMS by trade. Each operative reads it in their own language and signs on the phone. On a site with no signal, it syncs once the phone is back in range.

RAMS + Workforce
07:42Hot work

Hot work permit issued for the south gable.

The welder requests it on the phone. The site manager approves it with the fire watch and isolations set out, and the numbered PDF goes up on the cabin wall.

Permits
11:00Toolbox

Toolbox talk on heat stress, twelve signatures.

Five minutes from the library, signed on each phone or on the presenter’s. Filed against the operatives and the site.

Toolbox and training
15:40RIDDOR

Investigation closed: not reportable under RIDDOR.

The investigation lead signs it off. The decision is recorded with the reasoning behind it, which is what matters when somebody later asks why it was not reported.

Incidents + RIDDOR
17:15Close

The director reviews every site on one screen.

Open permits, expiring tickets, open near misses and the last toolbox talk on each site. Nothing waits to be typed up after work.

Reports
The regulator’s alphabet

One module, built
around UK duties.

Each duty below has a form, a register or an alert behind it in Unibuild.

Working out which duties sit with you is a separate job. The free CDM 2015 checklist covers 22 of them, each with the regulation behind it, and needs no sign-up.

Site manager in hi-vis working through paperwork at a laptop, a hard hat on the desk

Construction

CDM 2015Construction phase planWelfare facilitiesExcavations and temporary worksWork at Height 2005Manual Handling 1992

Reporting

RIDDOR 2013Dangerous occurrencesSpecified injuriesOver-seven-day injuriesOccupational diseases

Substances and exposure

COSHH 2002Control of Asbestos 2012Control of Lead at Work 2002Noise at Work 2005Vibration at Work 2005

Plant and equipment

LOLER 1998PUWER 1998PAT testingPressure Systems 2000Electricity at Work 1989Safe isolation

People and office

Management Regulations 1999PPE at Work 1992First-Aid Regulations 1981DSE 1992Health surveillanceDriver and vehicle checksFire Safety Order 2005

Frameworks and schemes

HSG65ISO 45001SMASCHASConstructionlineAchillesCITBCSCS
No card, no lock-in

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The full platform, on your real RAMS and your real sites.
No setup fee
Your RAMS, templates and registers moved across, with setup and training.
Live in about two weeks
In phases, with the first site running first.
Unlimited users
One monthly fee, fixed for three years, with every subcontractor included.
Cancel by email
Everything exports at any time, and a clean copy comes back within five working days.
UK data, UK support
Data held in London. A UK line, answered by a person in working hours.
Asked in every demo

The questions a safety
lead asks first.

More answers are on the FAQ page. These are the ones that come up in a safety conversation.

What does the health and safety software cover?
RAMS built by AI from your template and reviewed by AI before release, dynamic risk assessments, Awaab’s Law hazard reports, permits to work, scaffold and plant inspections, COSHH assessments, near-miss and accident reporting, RIDDOR records, asbestos records, toolbox talks and the training matrix. It is one module, not a shelf of separate systems. Each record is made on site at the time, rather than assembled the week before an audit.
How is it priced?
One monthly figure for the whole firm, quoted in writing, usually the same working day. It covers every module, unlimited users, your own branded app, setup, training and moving your records across. There is no setup fee and no charge per user, so every subcontractor signing a RAMS is included. The figure is fixed for three years. How pricing works.
Will operatives on site actually fill it in?
A near miss is a few taps on the phone. Signing a RAMS is one scroll and a finger swipe, and toolbox talks open at the next pinned topic. It runs in your firm’s own staff app, published on the App Store and Google Play under your company’s name and icon. Rollout works best with the paper route closed on a named date. The office can see which phones have notifications switched on, so “I never got the alert” is a two-minute check.
Does it work on sites with no signal?
Yes. The field app works on sites without coverage, and what is recorded there syncs with the office the moment the phone is back in signal. Clock-ins are stored on the phone and sent on automatically.
Do subcontractors on site cost extra?
No. Subcontract operatives sign RAMS, toolbox talks and permits on the same module at no extra cost, because users are unlimited. Their firms’ certificates and insurances live on the subcontractor portal. The record of who did what and when covers everyone on the gate, not just direct employees.
Can a record be changed after it is signed?
No. Permits, RAMS and toolbox talks are locked when submitted, and an amendment makes a new version that is signed again. A signature is always against a specific version on a specific date. Every sign-off, edit and change of status is recorded with the person and the time, and nobody can edit that record afterwards.
Does it handle RIDDOR reporting properly?
Yes. The accident form records whether an event is reportable under RIDDOR, and why. The system flags the reporting window that applies, and alerts go out by email and by push notification in your own app. It produces a PDF laid out for the report. When you decide an event does not meet the threshold, the reasoning stays on the record. RIDDOR reporting, explained.
What can we hand an inspector, a client or a principal designer?
The record, found by site and date rather than searched for. The construction phase plan, RAMS, permits, RIDDOR records, the training matrix, welfare checks and plant records all sit against the project as it runs. At handover that evidence exports as one PDF. The principal designer prepares the health and safety file, and the principal contractor passes on what it holds, which Unibuild has ready.
Can AI check our RAMS before they go out?
Yes. Unibuild’s AI reviews your own RAMS before release and a subcontractor’s RAMS before you accept it. It flags vague controls and gaps for your competent person, who decides what changes and signs it off. Operatives then read it in their own language and sign on the phone or through a link. AI RAMS review and the RAMS app.
Can we bring our own RAMS templates?
Yes. Your existing templates are moved across as part of setup, and there is a library of around forty starter RAMS by trade as well. You always own your templates and can export them at any time. Free editable RAMS and method statement templates are on the downloads page, with pre-filled RAMS by trade and hazard.
Does it support ISO 45001 and SMAS or CHAS pre-qualification?
Yes. The module is laid out to support an ISO 45001 system and HSG65 (Plan, Do, Check, Act). For SMAS, CHAS, Constructionline and Achilles, the certificates, RAMS, training matrix and incident figures export as the bundle each scheme asks for. You make the submission, with the evidence already assembled. Which scheme you need.
Does it cover vehicle checks and fire doors?
Yes. Drivers do the daily vehicle check in the app, and MOT, tax, insurance and service dates are tracked with reminders, on the vehicles and fleet module. Fire doors carry their own register and regulation 10 checks on the fire doors module. Both sit in the same system as the rest of your safety records.
Do you handle site inductions?
Yes, and new starters are onboarded on the phone before they go to site. The office gives them a login for your app. They read your health and safety policies, toolbox talks and training, and sign that they have read and understood each one. Every signature is kept with the date, against their name. Each person also carries a titled induction record with the files attached, and an expiry date where there is one, so an out of date induction shows in the same place as an expired card. CDM 2015 regulation 13(4)(a) requires a suitable site induction for every worker. There is a site induction checklist if you are building one from scratch, and a free site induction form with the site’s induction register.
What software helps with CDM 2015 compliance in the UK?
Software that records the evidence for each CDM 2015 duty while the job runs, rather than at handover. Unibuild’s health and safety software does that against each project, from the construction phase plan to the health and safety file. Signatures are taken on the phone against the version signed. The duties stay with the duty holder, and the CDM 2015 guide sets out who holds which.
Where is our data held?
In London, and it does not leave the UK, photographs included. It is encrypted when stored and when it moves. Unibuild is registered with the ICO (ZC238395) and holds Cyber Essentials Plus, and ISO 27001 is in progress. Everything exports at any time.
Is there a free incident report form?
Yes. A free incident report form for accidents, near misses and dangerous occurrences is on the downloads page as an editable PDF and a Word document. It carries the RIDDOR check with the reporting deadlines and an investigation page. Alongside it are a free plant register and a waste transfer note.
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