Free health & safety tools for UK trades
49 calculators, checkers, permits and printable builders for site paperwork. Use them before, during or after your RAMS draft.
- Plan the job
- Check the gaps
- Print the record
- Link back to RAMS
Hand-arm vibration
HAVS calculator
Add each vibrating tool and trigger time to get daily exposure points and A(8), checked against the HSE action and limit values.
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Pre-submission review
RAMS pre-submission checker
Run your RAMS against the checks principal contractors commonly make before review and sign-off.
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Hot works
Hot works permit
Issue a hot works permit — fire watch, extinguishers, isolation of detectors and the close-out check.
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Tools are easiest to use when they feed the RAMS
Run the calculator, permit, checklist or document builder, then carry the result into the RAMS method, evidence section or briefing record.
RAMS builder
Choose the work, add site details, answer risk triggers, review gaps and export a PDF draft.
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Find task-specific RAMS starting points by trade, task, hazard or permit trigger.
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Use checkers, permits, calculators and document builders alongside the RAMS workflow.
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Quick numeric checks against HSE thresholds.
Add each vibrating tool and trigger time to get daily exposure points and A(8), checked against the HSE action and limit values.
Score likelihood × severity on the standard 5×5 matrix, get the risk rating and what it means for your RAMS.
Estimate daily noise exposure (LEP,d) from task noise levels and durations, checked against the action values.
What RAMS paperwork really costs you per year — your time, consultant fees and the price of a rejected document.
Work out CIS deductions at 0%, 20% or 30%, with materials and VAT handled correctly.
First aiders, appointed persons and kits your site needs — worked out from headcount, risk level and site spread, per HSE guidance.
Toilets, washbasins, rest space and drying room provision for your site headcount — checked against CDM 2015 Schedule 2.
How many extinguishers a floor needs and which types — worked out from floor area and the fire risks present, per BS 5306-8.
Tension per sling leg from load, leg count and included angle — with mode factors and warnings as the angle widens.
Checkers & quizzes
Find out where you stand before someone else checks for you.
Answer a few questions about the project and see your CDM 2015 duties — and whether it's F10 notifiable.
Run your RAMS against the checks principal contractors commonly make before review and sign-off.
Paste your RAMS and get it reviewed the way a principal contractor would — eight checks, severity-ranked findings and concrete fixes.
Check your policies, RAMS, insurance and records against what CHAS-style SSIP assessments ask for.
Would your site stand up to an unannounced HSE inspection? Check against what inspectors look for.
Pick your tasks and hazards, get the PPE to specify in your RAMS with the relevant EN standards.
Find which CSCS card fits your role, qualifications and experience — and what you need to get it.
Work through whether an incident is RIDDOR reportable, what to report and the deadline.
Battering, benching, trench boxes or sheeting — what your excavation needs based on depth, soil and what's nearby.
Does your job need a management survey or a refurbishment & demolition survey? Answer a few questions about the building and the work.
Stop-work wind speeds for MEWPs, cranes, roof work, hoarding and lifting — with Beaufort cues you can judge on site.
Assessment builders
Structured, printable assessments for specific risks.
Assess work-related stress against the six HSE Management Standards — demands, control, support, relationships, role and change — flag what needs action and print a record. Built around the HSE framework and the employer's duty to assess stress.
Work through the legionella risk factors and L8 controls for a hot & cold water system — temperatures, flushing little-used outlets, descaling showers and the written scheme — and print a record. Built around HSE ACoP L8 and HSG274; flags cooling towers, spas and healthcare.
Work through the five-step fire risk assessment for non-domestic premises — fire hazards, people at risk and existing precautions, with critical gaps flagged — and print an FRA record. Built around the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005; flags when a competent assessor is needed.
Work through certification, gaps, intumescent and smoke seals, hinges, the self-closer, glazing and operation — critical defects flagged — and print an inspection record. Built around BS 8214 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022.
Build a substance-by-substance COSHH assessment — hazards, exposure routes, controls, PPE/RPE and review dates.
TILE-style task assessment — task, individual, load, environment — with a printable record.
Ladders, towers, MEWPs and fragile roofs — assess the job and capture the rescue plan, not just the access kit.
Atmosphere, access and egress, rescue arrangements and whether the job needs a permit.
The quick daily check before work starts — conditions, changes, services, and a stop/go decision.
Enter the site postcode and get the emergency information block for your RAMS — nearest A&E, directions and what to record.
Document builders
Build a complete, printable site document in minutes.
Build the three-part health & safety policy the HSE expects — Statement of Intent, Organisation and Arrangements — from your company details and the topics that apply, then print it. A written policy is a legal duty at 5+ employees.
Build a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan for anyone who can't evacuate unaided — capture their needs, alerting method and escape strategy (buddy, evacuation chair or refuge) and print the plan. Built around the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.
Build a proportionate CPP for small and domestic projects — the document CDM 2015 requires before work starts.
Site rules, welfare, emergency arrangements, access and key hazards — with a signature sheet.
Ignition sources, hot works, escape routes, detection and extinguishers for your site fire plan.
Upload a plan or photo and mark up routes, exclusion zones, services and permit areas for a RAMS-ready briefing sketch.
Pedestrian segregation, reversing, delivery routes and exclusion zones in a printable plan.
Load, equipment, exclusion zones and the appointed person / signaller roles for a basic lift plan.
Capture the facts, root cause and corrective actions — with a built-in RIDDOR reportability prompt.
Turn an incident or near miss into a one-page briefing bulletin your crews will actually read.
Build a short, structured toolbox talk with an attendance and sign-off sheet.
Assemble every field the HSE F10 form asks for — ready to paste into the official notification, with the notifiability test built in.
Workers × tickets and training with expiry dates — the matrix SSIP assessors ask for, with expiry warnings and calendar reminders.
Permits to work
Issue and record high-risk work permits.
Issue a hot works permit — fire watch, extinguishers, isolation of detectors and the close-out check.
Buried services checks, plans, CAT & genny scan and safe digging conditions before excavation starts.
Entry controls, atmosphere testing, rescue arrangements and time limits for confined space work.
Record electrical and mechanical isolations, lock-off points, proving dead and re-energisation.
Fragile surfaces, edge protection, access route and weather limits before anyone goes on the roof.
Authorise a lifting operation — equipment checks, exclusion zone, appointed person and signaller.