Health & Safety Intelligence Platform

A RAMS (Risk Assessment and Method Statement) is the document UK construction uses to show a job has been thought through: the risk assessment identifies the hazards and how they are controlled, and the method statement sets out the safe sequence of work. Principal contractors routinely require an approved RAMS before anyone starts on site. Complly Risk drafts one from a plain-English job description, scores each risk red/amber/green, and routes it to a competent person for sign-off.

Not by that name. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to carry out a suitable and sufficient risk assessment, and to record the significant findings if they employ five or more people; the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires a safe system of work. A RAMS is how construction demonstrates both in a single document. In practice it is also a commercial requirement: no approved RAMS, no access to site.

A toolbox talk is a short briefing given on site before or during a job, covering the specific hazards of that task and the controls everyone is expected to follow, with a record of who attended. Complly Risk writes one straight from the RAMS it has already drafted, so the talk covers the hazards that document actually identified rather than a generic list.

A COSHH assessment is a written assessment of the substances hazardous to health that a job involves — what they are, how people could be exposed, the harm that could result, and the controls that prevent it. It is required by the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002. With Complly Risk you can produce one alongside a RAMS or start one by photographing a substance label.

Yes, and it is one of the most commonly missed. Respirable crystalline silica from cutting or drilling concrete, stone and brick, along with wood dust and general construction dust, are substances hazardous to health under COSHH. They need assessing and controlling like any chemical product. Complly Risk carries them in its substance library so they are not left out of the assessment.

A safety data sheet is supplied by the manufacturer and describes the product in general. A COSHH assessment is yours, and describes how that substance is used on your job — the quantity, the method, the ventilation, who is exposed and for how long, and the controls you will apply. A safety data sheet is an input to the assessment, not a substitute for it.

Whenever it may no longer be valid — if the substance, the quantity, the method of work or the working environment changes, if monitoring or health surveillance suggests controls are not working, or after an incident. Many contractors also review annually as a matter of routine.

Yes. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 require a construction phase plan for every construction project, however small, drawn up by the contractor before the construction phase begins. Complly drafts a CDM 2015 construction phase plan from your project details, ready for a competent person to review and sign off.

On a single-contractor project, the contractor writes it. Where there is more than one contractor, the principal contractor does. CDM 2015 applies to domestic clients too — the duty simply passes to the contractor or principal contractor. Complly drafts it from the project record and routes it to a competent person for sign-off.

A project is notifiable if the construction work is scheduled to last longer than 30 working days with more than 20 workers working simultaneously at any point, or to exceed 500 person-days. The client must then notify the HSE with an F10 notification before work starts. Notification does not change the construction phase plan duty — the plan is required either way. Complly prepares the F10 notification pack from the project details you have already entered.

They work together at different altitudes. The construction phase plan is the project-level plan for how the whole construction phase is organised and managed. A RAMS is task-level: the risk assessment and safe sequence for one activity within it. On most sites the principal contractor's plan references and collects the trades' RAMS — and in Complly both are written from the same hazard register, so they cannot contradict each other.

For each site, Complly works out the documents the work requires and checks them against what you actually hold. Where something is missing, it prices the biggest gap — drawn from the Sentencing Council sentencing guideline for health & safety offences and recent HSE construction convictions — so you can see which gap carries the most and what closing it is worth. It is an illustrative guide to help you prioritise, not a prediction, a quote or legal advice, and a competent person still signs off every document.

No. It is your estimated exposure to enforcement action and fines under health & safety law — a distinct thing from public-liability insurance, which covers third-party claims. Complly's figure is an illustrative guide to help you prioritise the gaps on a site, grounded in published sentencing guidance and HSE figures. It is not insurance and it is not legal advice.

Yes — a project in Complly is one construction site. It works out what that site requires, flags what is missing, and prices the gap as liability, then runs the CDM 2015 lifecycle end to end: the hazard register (the single source of truth) feeds the pre-construction information, construction phase plan, RAMS, COSHH assessments, permits and the health & safety file, with competent-person sign-off gates and golden-thread traceability. Because every document reads from the same record, nothing drifts between stages.

A fire risk assessment identifies the fire hazards in a building or site, who is at risk, and the measures that reduce that risk — and it is reviewed as the building or the work changes. Complly FRA covers live construction projects and handover: a guided camera walk-through captures each item on site, every photo is checked against the assessor’s checklist, and a qualified fire risk assessor reviews and signs off remotely. It is in development and not yet available to buy.

Complly Inspection builds the walk-around from the project’s phase and the trades on site — work at height, COSHH storage, plant, welfare and permits — captured with photo, voice and location. Findings are sorted into four risk bands and every one is reviewed by a competent person before a report can be issued; the most serious follow their own escalation path and cannot be quietly closed. A confirmed finding updates the project’s risk register. It is in development and not yet available to buy.

A competent person — always. Rodney only drafts; every document must be reviewed, edited where needed and signed off by a qualified human before it can be used. Reviewers get a simple link by email (no password or account needed), record their name and competence, and the sign-off joins a tamper-proof audit trail.

Yes. Complly Risk installs on a phone and works offline, so you can capture photos and record what you found in a basement or a cut-and-cover with no coverage; it syncs the moment a signal returns. Site QR posters mean anyone scanning on site always opens the latest signed-off version of a document rather than a printout that has been superseded.

In the UK. Documents, photos and the audit trail stay on UK infrastructure, every document carries a tamper-proof history of who changed what and when, and a competent person signs off before anything can be used.

Yes. Try the demo opens the real Complly Risk or Complly Construct in your browser, on a made-up demo company that is yours for the visit, with a short guide — about five minutes, nothing to install and no card. Leave your name and work email and it opens straight away. It is made-up data only, and nothing you do in the demo is sent anywhere. Complly FRA and Complly Inspection are not in the demo yet. To watch first, See it shows each product working in about half a minute.

Complly Risk is £39 a month on special offer, with everything in Risk included, COSHH and Attack my RAMS among it. Complly Construct covers up to five live projects with unlimited users and unlimited documents; its price is coming soon. Complly Construct Enterprise (unlimited projects) is priced with our team. Complly Ready, FRA and Inspection prices are coming soon. All prices exclude VAT.