The Site Book is a RAMS, CPP and COSHH option for builder-run firms up to around 50 staff. Business is £199/month with 10 management logins and 50 included active portal users. Project workers count in that allowance, but worker-driven overage is recorded and auto-raised rather than blocking site work. Starter is £0, Pro is £39/month or £360/year, and optional setup is £249 one-off.
Best overall for a typical 30-person UK builder: The Site Book Business. It combines RAMS, Construction Phase Plans, COSHH, controlled document review, worker sign-off, inductions, attendance, certificates, subcontractor evidence, inspections and audit exports. HandsHQ remains the stronger specialist choice for dedicated H&S teams focused on mature RAMS governance, while RapidRAMS suits occasional pay-per-document use.
The Site Book publishes this comparison and is one of the products compared. The Site Book product and capacity facts and HandsHQ first-party pricing/features were reviewed on 2026-09-23; swiftRMS, HASpod and Evalu-8 pricing pages were re-checked on 2026-10-26; unchanged vendors retain their cited source dates.
Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo
£44-£190/mo individual; UK team plans from £275/mo, billed annually plus set-up fee
from GBP49/mo
Free; Basic GBP15/user/mo; Pro GBP25/user/mo; Corporate GBP199/mo; Enterprise GBP499/mo
£15 per document, no subscription
Quote-led; vendor article: core from GBP2.50/licence/mo, RAMS module GBP295/mo
£799/yr (annual upfront)
Team size
1 internal user on Pro; 10 management logins and 50 active site portal users on Business. Any invited seat can be a field-only Site Supervisor limited to assigned sites/projects. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; Business can optionally require a 4-digit PIN for shared-link sign-off, and project workers count as active portal users while assigned
One-person RAMS accounts through to enterprise teams
Small-mid
Small-mid
Solo / occasional
50+
1–50
Best for
UK builders and principal contractors - from sole traders to builder-run firms of around 50 staff - who need CDM documents plus lightweight site H&S operations: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, toolbox talks, site attendance, site files, document review evidence, subcontractor evidence and worker/visitor portal access.
Individuals who want a template-led RAMS subscription and organisations with a dedicated health and safety function that need formal RAMS governance, approvals and integrations.
UK contractors seeking AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW and toolbox-talk documents, with higher-tier permits, approval workflows and an audit trail.
UK contractors who want AI RAMS on a low monthly tier, with COSHH, inductions, inspections, toolbox talks, and other site modules from Pro upward; larger teams now appear to be pointed at Corporate or Enterprise flat-rate tiers.
UK contractors needing occasional task-specific RAMS for routine, non-specialist work without a monthly subscription.
Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management.
Small-to-mid UK businesses (sole trader up to ~50 users) that prefer browsing an 830+ template library and customising by hand, and are comfortable with annual upfront membership. Documents / Training / Talks are sold as separate annual subscriptions or bundled in the Pro Plan.
Not ideal for
The Site Book launched in 2026.
Pricing starts at £44/mo for Basic with 1 RAMS; Advanced is £99/mo for 3 RAMS and Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS/up to 3 users. UK team plans start at £275/mo (Small), £550/mo (Medium) and £750/mo (Large), billed annually plus a set-up fee; Enterprise is custom-priced. Prices exclude VAT.
Higher starting price than The Site Book for small builders who need the full CDM pack.
Document and back-office user limits apply on the lower tiers, so growing teams need to watch usage and plan fit.
At £15 per document, three RAMS cost £45 in a month; compare that total with the flat monthly or annual prices of subscription products.
Pricing is quote-led: the pricing page builds a package with no prices shown, and a one-time set-up fee covers training. Evalu-8's own RAMS article lists the RAMS module at GBP295/mo on top of core EHS from GBP2.50/licence/mo -heavy for a sole trader who only needs RAMS.
Membership plans are paid annually upfront, with no automatic renewal; the Documents plan is £799/year, while standalone Training and Talks are listed at £499/year and £99/year. Monthly access is sold only per individual document or training course.
RAMS
AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser.
Template library with editor.
AI-generated risk assessments.
AI RAMS generator with monthly limits.
Structured pay-as-you-go RAMS generator for routine, non-specialist work; payment is taken on submission and the RAMS PDF is emailed shortly afterwards.
Module within wider EHS platform.
Via template library
CPP
Full Construction Phase Plans - not just RAMS.
Included on team plans and annual individual plans.
Shipped 28 March 2026; named on the homepage/changelog, not the pricing page.
Pro/Corporate/Enterprise module.
No Construction Phase Plan feature is listed on Evalu-8's EHS pages (checked 2026-10-26).
Template
COSHH
Standalone COSHH document + site-specific register, SDS upload with extraction, and construction-focused library entries that appear in search only after review.
Unlimited assessments on Advanced and above; 15,000+ substance library advertised.
Pro/Corporate/Enterprise add-on module.
Template
Method statements
Template library
Site inductions
Workers sign from their phone - on Business, key H&S details are readable in 9 languages.
Not listed in the current RAMS product feature set.
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Pro/Corporate/Enterprise add-on module.
Core package keeps contractor induction and acknowledgement records with digital sign-off.
Training Plan add-on
Multilingual inductions (9 languages)
On the Business plan, workers read and acknowledge key H&S details in 9 languages; the language used is recorded in the audit trail and translations are site-team reviewable.
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Worker cert tracking
Cert plus right-to-work evidence records, with expiry reminders.
Separate Training Register tracks training, certificates and expiry dates and integrates with RAMS.
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Training matrix on Pro/Corporate/Enterprise.
Training Management tracks certificates and expiry dates with alerts.
Training Plan records results and certificates for HASpod's own courses; not general worker card tracking.
Incident log
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Accident records on Pro/Corporate/Enterprise.
Permits to work
Business plan and above.
Pro/Corporate/Enterprise add-on module.
Contractor Management collects contractors' permit documents; no permit-issuing workflow is shown on the reviewed pages.
Template only
Site diary
Pro includes editable daily entries; owner/admin deletion is permanent, while a Business Site Supervisor's delete can be restored. Live entries and photo counts appear in the Audit Pack.
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Site logbook present in the app bundle.
Subcontractor tracking
Separate Training Register distinguishes employee and subcontractor personnel.
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Engineers and client contacts.
Contractor profiles are in the core package; Contractor Management covers approvals and expiry alerts.
Toolbox talks
Pro/Corporate/Enterprise add-on module.
No toolbox-talk module is listed among Evalu-8's EHS modules (checked 2026-10-26).
Talks Plan add-on
Site attendance
Business includes check-in/check-out and live H&S attendance.
Pricing page lists a limited number of workers for QR sign-on-site; this does not establish the same attendance workflow or limits as Site Book Business.
Roster module shows who is on site and when.
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Site portal
Business includes up to 50 active site portal users.
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Site files
Drawings, plans, H&S docs, procedures, RAMS, CPP and emergency information.
RAMS/project files, not a small-builder site portal.
Core package includes configurable document libraries with permissions.
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Document review
Business review status and history, plus optional named-approver routing (accept/reject each version with recorded reasons before issue) and client review via share links.
Approval workflows on team-led plans.
AI refinement/export, not review history workflow.
Core package tracks versions, review dates and e-signatures; RAMS approvals and revisions.
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Subcontractor evidence
Business evidence record, review and archive workflow.
Contractor Management requests insurance, training, competence evidence, RAMS and permits, with an approval history.
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Site inspections
Business inspections with checklist items.
Pro/Corporate/Enterprise add-on module.
Audits, Inspections & Forms module, with offline completion.
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Corrective actions
Business corrective actions with owner, due date and completion state.
Site snagging modules cover some actions.
Actions are part of the broader EHS platform.
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PCPP import
Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure.
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Document checking
AI refinement, not a dedicated checker.
Data export
Includes the Audit Pack: one merged PDF covering documents, sign-offs, worker evidence, attendance, incidents, COSHH, permits and up to the latest 500 live Site Diary entries.
RAMS PDFs; Training Register reports and training-matrix export.
PDF and Word export.
PDF download
AI chat
AI document refinement.
RAMS / CPP / COSHH generation
The flagship: generates site-specific UK RAMS, CPP and COSHH from a plain-English brief.
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Right to work
Right-to-work evidence records with expiry reminders, alongside cert tracking.
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Mobile app
Workers sign and get inducted from their phone browser with nothing to install; a native builder app is in development, not yet in the public app stores.
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QR / mobile sign-in
Site Control (per-site tier) adds a permanent entrance QR for sign-in/out from the worker's phone.
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Contractor self-onboarding
Site Control (per-site tier) adds contractor self-join via the entrance QR with CSCS upload and approval.
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RFIs
Site Control (per-site tier) adds RFIs - create, attach, comment, answer and close.
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RAMS sign-off (per worker)
Per-worker RAMS sign-off is tracked on Business; an optional 4-digit PIN adds shared-link identity evidence, and Site Control can block check-in until the current version is signed.
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Live sign-in register
Business adds a live sign-in register for H&S plus evacuation and muster roll-call.
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Document-review evidence
Business keeps version history with a per-version record of review, issue and worker acknowledgement.
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Multi-site dashboard & exports
Unlimited projects with account-wide exports and the merged Audit Pack; no cross-site rollup dashboard below the Site Control tier.
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SSOW
Delivered as the method statement inside the RAMS rather than a separate safe-system-of-work document.
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Plant / asset management
Business and Site Control include spreadsheet import, project assignments, configured evidence, inspections, defects, quarantine, exports and Audit Pack history.
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Video hazard analysis
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Video-to-hazard analysis.
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Reading this table: a tick means supported, a dash means partly supported, and a cross means we checked and it is not supported. An em dash (—) means we have not verified that capability for that product either way — treat it as unknown, not as a missing feature, and check with the vendor.
Why this matters
UK RAMS software splits into broader CDM and site-operation products like The Site Book, RAMS-governance platforms like HandsHQ, AI RAMS-first subscriptions like swiftRMS, focused subscriptions like RAMS Pro, template libraries like HASpod, full EHS platforms like Evalu-8 and pay-per-document tools like RapidRAMS. The right pick depends on how many RAMS you write, who authors and approves them, and whether you also need CPPs, COSHH, inductions, worker sign-off, attendance, files and portal users in one workflow.
RAMS software for small UK firms: what it needs to do
Searches for RAMS software usually start with one job: a site-specific RAMS ready for review before work starts. For a sole trader or a small firm, the paperwork around the RAMS matters too: the Construction Phase Plan, COSHH assessments, inductions and the record of who has signed what. Check any shortlist against these five points.
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A site-specific first draft, not a renamed template
Look for a tool that builds the RAMS from the job details: the task, the site, the people and the plant. A generic template with the company name changed is not site-specific. The person in charge of the work still reviews the draft before it is issued.
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CPP and COSHH when the job needs them
If you are the principal contractor or the only contractor, you need a Construction Phase Plan as well as RAMS, and work with hazardous substances needs a COSHH assessment. Check which plan tier includes each document before you compare prices.
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Sign-off from a phone
Workers and subcontractors should be able to read and sign the RAMS and the site induction on their own phone, so the signed record sits with the project rather than on a paper sheet.
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Records kept with the project
A downloaded PDF on its own is not a record. Check that the tool keeps each version, who signed it and when, so you can show what was issued if a client, principal contractor or inspector asks.
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A price that fits a 1–10 person firm
Work out the cost across a busy month, not one job. Pay-per-document, per-seat and flat monthly pricing look very different at two RAMS a month and at ten.
Who each tool is for
At-a-glance fit per product - pulled from the same data that drives the snapshot table.
The Site Book
Best for
UK builders and principal contractors - from sole traders to builder-run firms of around 50 staff - who need CDM documents plus lightweight site H&S operations: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, toolbox talks, site attendance, site files, document review evidence, subcontractor evidence and worker/visitor portal access.
Not ideal for
The Site Book launched in 2026.
Team size
1 internal user on Pro; 10 management logins and 50 active site portal users on Business. Any invited seat can be a field-only Site Supervisor limited to assigned sites/projects. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; Business can optionally require a 4-digit PIN for shared-link sign-off, and project workers count as active portal users while assigned
HandsHQ
Best for
Individuals who want a template-led RAMS subscription and organisations with a dedicated health and safety function that need formal RAMS governance, approvals and integrations.
Not ideal for
Pricing starts at £44/mo for Basic with 1 RAMS; Advanced is £99/mo for 3 RAMS and Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS/up to 3 users. UK team plans start at £275/mo (Small), £550/mo (Medium) and £750/mo (Large), billed annually plus a set-up fee; Enterprise is custom-priced. Prices exclude VAT.
Team size
One-person RAMS accounts through to enterprise teams
swiftRMS
Best for
UK contractors seeking AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW and toolbox-talk documents, with higher-tier permits, approval workflows and an audit trail.
Not ideal for
Higher starting price than The Site Book for small builders who need the full CDM pack.
Team size
Small-mid
RAMS Pro
Best for
UK contractors who want AI RAMS on a low monthly tier, with COSHH, inductions, inspections, toolbox talks, and other site modules from Pro upward; larger teams now appear to be pointed at Corporate or Enterprise flat-rate tiers.
Not ideal for
Document and back-office user limits apply on the lower tiers, so growing teams need to watch usage and plan fit.
Team size
Small-mid
RapidRAMS
Best for
UK contractors needing occasional task-specific RAMS for routine, non-specialist work without a monthly subscription.
Not ideal for
At £15 per document, three RAMS cost £45 in a month; compare that total with the flat monthly or annual prices of subscription products.
Team size
Solo / occasional
Evalu-8
Best for
Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management.
Not ideal for
Pricing is quote-led: the pricing page builds a package with no prices shown, and a one-time set-up fee covers training. Evalu-8's own RAMS article lists the RAMS module at GBP295/mo on top of core EHS from GBP2.50/licence/mo -heavy for a sole trader who only needs RAMS.
Team size
50+
Haspod
Best for
Small-to-mid UK businesses (sole trader up to ~50 users) that prefer browsing an 830+ template library and customising by hand, and are comfortable with annual upfront membership. Documents / Training / Talks are sold as separate annual subscriptions or bundled in the Pro Plan.
Not ideal for
Membership plans are paid annually upfront, with no automatic renewal; the Documents plan is £799/year, while standalone Training and Talks are listed at £499/year and £99/year. Monthly access is sold only per individual document or training course.
Team size
1–50
The bottom line
Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
Choose The Site Book Pro if…
Choose The Site Book if you're a sole trader or running a small builder on domestic or small commercial jobs. Pro is £39/month or £360/year and covers the CDM suite - RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions and worker sign-off - while Business adds team logins, portal users, site attendance and files.
Recommended for: Sole traders and small UK builders on domestic or small commercial work
Choose The Site Book Business if…
Best overall for a typical 30-person UK builder: The Site Book Business. At £199/month it combines RAMS, Construction Phase Plans, COSHH, controlled document review, worker sign-off, inductions, attendance, certificates, subcontractor evidence, inspections and audit exports. It includes 10 management logins and 50 active portal users. Site Control is for the per-site gate and contractor-access workflow, not an automatic headcount upgrade.
Recommended for: 10–50 person builders and principal contractors running multiple projects
Choose HandsHQ if…
Choose HandsHQ if you have a dedicated H&S department that primarily needs enterprise RAMS governance - team collaboration, formal approval workflows, and a curated template library your compliance staff edit day in, day out. For UK buyers its team plans start at £275 per month for up to 10 users, billed annually plus a set-up fee; individual RAMS plans offer direct signup for smaller buyers.
Recommended for: Organisations with a dedicated in-house health and safety department
Choose RapidRAMS if…
RapidRAMS lists RAMS at about £15 each: two cost £30. The Site Book Pro is £39/month or £30/month when billed annually (£360/year). At two documents, the prices are equal under annual billing; three documents cost £45, above either Pro billing option. Compare the billing period and included features.
Recommended for: Builders who write one or two RAMS a month at most
Choose The Site Book if…
Choose The Site Book if you are comparing the total bill for RAMS, CPP, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks, and worker sign-off together. The dedicated cheapest-bundle comparison breaks down the maths, but the short version is simple: the first project is free, Pro is GBP39/month or GBP360/year, and you do not need separate document, training, and talks subscriptions.
Choose RAMS Pro Basic for its RAMS-focused monthly plan if you already handle other CDM work elsewhere. Its Pro, Corporate and Enterprise tiers include modules such as CPP, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks and a training matrix; compare the tier and modules with the CDM and site workflows you need.
Recommended for: UK firms that want a mature RAMS-specific subscription without the full CDM suite
Choose Evalu-8 if…
Choose Evalu-8 if you want RAMS inside a wider environmental, health and safety system with training records, audits, inspections and incident management. Its pricing page now builds a quoted package with no prices shown; its own RAMS article lists core EHS from £2.50 per licence per month and a £295 per month RAMS module. If you only need RAMS, CPP, COSHH and inductions, a full EHS platform may be more than you need.
Recommended for: Organisations that want a full EHS platform, not just RAMS
Why switch to The Site Book
✓Full CDM suite in one workflow - RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, worker sign-off, and Business site attendance/files.
✓Generate a site-specific RAMS first draft from a plain-English brief, ready for competent-person review.
✓Free first project lets you see real output before paying - no card required.
✓Starter is £0, Pro is £39/month or £360/year, Business is £199/month, and the optional setup service is £249 one-off, not a subscription.
✓Works on a phone - workers sign inductions and tick off toolbox talks from site, with an audit trail retained in the project.
✓Add your own work types for any trade - not just a fixed built-in library - each with a method statement that flows into the RAMS sequence, including a ready-made Commercial Solar PV group.
Full breakdown per product
Strengths, weaknesses, fit, and the sources every claim came from.
Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo
Best for
UK builders and principal contractors - from sole traders to builder-run firms of around 50 staff - who need CDM documents plus lightweight site H&S operations: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, toolbox talks, site attendance, site files, document review evidence, subcontractor evidence and worker/visitor portal access.
Team size
1 internal user on Pro; 10 management logins and 50 active site portal users on Business. Any invited seat can be a field-only Site Supervisor limited to assigned sites/projects. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; Business can optionally require a 4-digit PIN for shared-link sign-off, and project workers count as active portal users while assigned
Sweet spot
A builder-run principal contractor on a domestic or commercial project who needs ready-to-sign CDM documents, worker sign-off, a live sign-in register, practical site files, subcontractor evidence records and lightweight inspections/actions - without a dedicated H&S department to run them.
Strengths
UK construction compliance tool that ships RAMS + CPP + COSHH + inductions (readable and acknowledgeable in 9 worker languages on Business, with the language audit-recorded) + worker sign-off, including optional 4-digit shared-link PIN evidence on Business, plus site attendance, portal users, site files, document reviews, subcontractor evidence and inspections/actions.
Generate a site-specific RAMS first draft from a natural-language brief, ready for competent-person review - not a template library you hand-fill.
Controlled document workflow without an enterprise contract: version history and a recorded issue confirmation before a document is shared with a client or downloaded in the app on every plan, re-sign on revision with superseded signatures preserved plus PCPP import, cert tracking and document checking from the £39/month Pro plan - and on Business, optional named-approver routing (a designated approver accepts or rejects each version, with recorded reasons, before it can be issued) plus client approve/reject/request-changes via share links.
Transparent pricing: Starter £0, Pro £39/month or £360/year, Business £199/month with 10 management logins and 50 active site portal users. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; project workers count as active portal users while assigned.
Build RAMS for any trade - add your own work types and method statements alongside the built-in library, reusable across projects, including a ready-made Commercial Solar PV group. Save a finished job as a reusable project template, or clone it, so the next job of the same shape starts from your own setup.
COSHH goes deep: a standalone COSHH assessment document, upload-a-Safety-Data-Sheet extraction, a site-specific substance register and an expert-reviewed library - plus per-worker RAMS sign-off and a one-click Audit Pack covering documents, sign-offs, worker evidence, attendance, incidents, COSHH, permits and up to the latest 500 live Site Diary entries.
Weaknesses
The Site Book launched in 2026.
Procore integration is in final testing rather than publicly launched -until it ships, compliance docs export as PDFs rather than syncing into Procore. A public REST API and signed webhooks are live on the Site Control tier; Autodesk Construction Cloud is not integrated.
Site files are a practical portal for drawings, plans and procedures, not formal drawing revision control.
UK-focused content (CDM 2015, HSE guidance) -international contractors on non-UK projects would need to adapt the output.
Check the product detail
These maintained Help Centre guides show exactly how the controls behind this comparison work.
£44-£190/mo individual; UK team plans from £275/mo, billed annually plus set-up fee
Best for
Individuals who want a template-led RAMS subscription and organisations with a dedicated health and safety function that need formal RAMS governance, approvals and integrations.
Team size
One-person RAMS accounts through to enterprise teams
Sweet spot
A buyer who values a large curated RAMS and COSHH library, with published individual allowances or team workflows organised by user band.
Strengths
Established compliance platform with published customer case studies across UK high-risk work.
Now part of HSI, with HSI's acquisition announcement citing more than 2,000 client organisations.
Curated RAMS library plus a COSHH library advertised at more than 15,000 substances.
Published individual pricing offers direct signup; UK team plans are published by user band (Small up to 10 users, Medium up to 25, Large up to 60), with Enterprise custom-priced.
Digital RAMS signatures, approvals, review history and integrations suit dedicated H&S teams producing documents regularly.
Weaknesses
Pricing starts at £44/mo for Basic with 1 RAMS; Advanced is £99/mo for 3 RAMS and Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS/up to 3 users. UK team plans start at £275/mo (Small), £550/mo (Medium) and £750/mo (Large), billed annually plus a set-up fee; Enterprise is custom-priced. Prices exclude VAT.
HSI ownership may be a positive for enterprise buyers, but small UK builders may prefer a UK-SME-first product roadmap.
The public RAMS and Training Register feature sets do not list a built-in incident log, permits-to-work, site diary, attendance workflow or general site portal.
Individual RAMS plans and the UK Small team plan offer direct signup; Medium, Large and Enterprise team plans go through a demo.
UK contractors seeking AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW and toolbox-talk documents, with higher-tier permits, approval workflows and an audit trail.
Team size
Small-mid
Sweet spot
A trade contractor or small compliance team that writes frequent RAMS and wants AI support for risk assessments before layering on full site-management workflows.
Strengths
Strong AI document scope for RAMS, CPP, COSHH, SSOW, manual handling, HAVS, and toolbox talks.
Published pricing lists Pro at GBP49/mo and Business at GBP399/mo; Enterprise is custom-priced.
Video hazard analysis and AI refinement are useful for teams that capture site conditions visually.
Weaknesses
Higher starting price than The Site Book for small builders who need the full CDM pack.
The public pricing page does not list site induction, worker certificate tracking, F10 workflow or site diary coverage; it does list a limited QR worker sign-on-site allocation.
Permits to Work and approval workflows sit on the higher Business tier, not the entry Pro plan.
Free; Basic GBP15/user/mo; Pro GBP25/user/mo; Corporate GBP199/mo; Enterprise GBP499/mo
Best for
UK contractors who want AI RAMS on a low monthly tier, with COSHH, inductions, inspections, toolbox talks, and other site modules from Pro upward; larger teams now appear to be pointed at Corporate or Enterprise flat-rate tiers.
Team size
Small-mid
Sweet spot
A small contractor writing regular RAMS that is happy with monthly RAMS limits and can accept broader site modules being tier-gated from Pro upward.
Strengths
Low published entry point: free tier, Basic at GBP15 and Pro at GBP25 per back-office user per month, with flat-rate Corporate and Enterprise tiers for larger teams; field workers sign for free.
Pro, Corporate and Enterprise include a broad set of add-on modules: COSHH, toolbox talks, site inspections, site inductions, asset register, training matrix, accident records, site snagging, permits to work, CPP and environmental assessments.
AI RAMS positioning and digital signatures make it more modern than a static template library.
Weaknesses
Document and back-office user limits apply on the lower tiers, so growing teams need to watch usage and plan fit.
The broader site modules are tier-gated; Basic is still mainly RAMS, templates, notifications, engineers, signatures, contacts, and PDF export.
The old GBP45 Enterprise price appears only as a hidden legacy bundle entry; current visible upper tiers are Corporate GBP199/mo and Enterprise GBP499/mo.
UK contractors needing occasional task-specific RAMS for routine, non-specialist work without a monthly subscription.
Team size
Solo / occasional
Sweet spot
A sole trader or small contractor who needs occasional pay-as-you-go RAMS and wants no subscription lock-in.
Strengths
Pay-per-document pricing is friction-free for builders who only need a RAMS occasionally -no monthly commitment.
Structured on-demand workflow for single RAMS documents, with adaptive logic rather than a static Word template.
Weaknesses
At £15 per document, three RAMS cost £45 in a month; compare that total with the flat monthly or annual prices of subscription products.
No CPP, COSHH, site inductions, or any site management tools -RAMS-only scope.
Narrow public scope: the homepage supports RAMS/method statement generation, but gives no evidence of CPP, COSHH, site inductions or broader site-management tools.
Trade coverage is still limited: its supported-trades page lists painters and decorators and general builders as live, with electricians, plumbers, carpenters and other trades marked coming soon.
Quote-led; vendor article: core from GBP2.50/licence/mo, RAMS module GBP295/mo
Best for
Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management.
Team size
50+
Sweet spot
An organisation that needs EHS across multiple business units and is willing to build a quoted package around core EHS plus RAMS, COSHH, audits, and other modules.
Strengths
Broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management in one tool.
Suitable for large contractors and enterprise teams that need multi-module EHS across business units.
Includes contractor induction records, training and certificate tracking with expiry alerts, and contractor document approvals.
Weaknesses
Pricing is quote-led: the pricing page builds a package with no prices shown, and a one-time set-up fee covers training. Evalu-8's own RAMS article lists the RAMS module at GBP295/mo on top of core EHS from GBP2.50/licence/mo -heavy for a sole trader who only needs RAMS.
Sold through a quote, with booked demos and a self-guided tour; the cited pages do not list a self-serve signup path.
The cited vendor sources do not establish a general limitation in mobile usability; compare the specific field workflows and modules required.
Small-to-mid UK businesses (sole trader up to ~50 users) that prefer browsing an 830+ template library and customising by hand, and are comfortable with annual upfront membership. Documents / Training / Talks are sold as separate annual subscriptions or bundled in the Pro Plan.
Team size
1–50
Sweet spot
SME builders and sole traders who want a template library they can browse, download, and hand-edit -not an AI document generator -and who are willing to commit to 12-month upfront billing.
Strengths
Mature membership used by over 20,000 businesses, with an 830+ template library covering RAMS, method statements, CDM templates, COSHH, and forms -the broadest out-of-the-box template catalogue in UK CDM compliance.
A Free Plan lets you try the service, and single documents or training courses can be bought without a membership.
Pro Plan bundles Documents + Training + Talks for £997/yr with a ~28% bundle discount -cheaper than buying all three as separate annual subscriptions.
Separate annual plans start at Talks (£99/year), with Training (£499/year) and Documents (£799/year); the Pro bundle is £997/year.
Each membership plan includes 10 users before extra-user pricing applies.
Weaknesses
Membership plans are paid annually upfront, with no automatic renewal; the Documents plan is £799/year, while standalone Training and Talks are listed at £499/year and £99/year. Monthly access is sold only per individual document or training course.
Documents, Training, and Talks are separate subscriptions unless you step up to the £997/yr Pro Plan; compare the combined price if you need the full CDM suite and toolbox content.
Extra users add annual cost: Documents and Training list £30+VAT/year each, Talks lists £15+VAT/year, and Pro lists £45+VAT/year.
No AI document generation -documents are prepared from its template library and customized for each site.
No general worker certificate tracking, incident log, permit system, or site diary -the library covers documents (and course certificates on the Training Plan) but not the ongoing site-operations layer.
Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
What makes The Site Book the top pick for UK builders?
The Site Book covers RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions and worker sign-off in one product. Business is £199/month with 10 management logins and 50 included active portal users. Assigned workers count in that total, while worker-driven overage is recorded and auto-raised rather than blocking setup. Starter is £0, Pro is £39/month or £360/year, and optional setup is £249 one-off.
When should I pick HandsHQ instead?
HandsHQ is the right choice when you have a dedicated in-house health and safety department that primarily needs enterprise RAMS governance - team collaboration, formal approval workflows, and a curated template library your compliance staff edit daily. For builder-run firms without a dedicated H&S department, The Site Book combines RAMS, CPPs and site-compliance workflows in one product; compare its features and plan limits with the approval workflows and templates offered by HandsHQ.
Is pay-per-document pricing like RapidRAMS ever the right call?
At about £15 per RAMS, one document costs £15 and two cost £30. The Site Book Pro is £39/month or £30/month when billed annually (£360/year). Two documents therefore equal the annual average and cost less than monthly Pro; three cost £45, more than either Pro billing option. Compare the total for your billing period and the features you need.
Can I just use a template pack instead of RAMS software?
You can, if you are confident editing every document for the site. HASpod, for example, sells a Documents Plan at £799 a year plus VAT with a library of more than 800 templates, including RAMS, method statements, COSHH and CDM templates. A template does not build the document from your job details, version it or collect worker sign-off, so the site-specific editing stays with you. Compare that work with what a RAMS tool does.
Can I try The Site Book before committing?
Yes. The Site Book lets you create a first project and generate a CPP, RAMS and site induction without entering a credit card. HandsHQ also offers direct signup for individual RAMS plans and advertises a 30-day money-back guarantee; its larger team tiers go through a demo. Compare whether you want a genuinely free project across the wider CDM workflow or a paid, allowance-based RAMS subscription.
What is the best RAMS generator software?
The Site Book turns a plain-English job description into a site-specific RAMS first draft and links it with CPP, COSHH, inductions and worker sign-off. Compare those workflows with the RAMS modules and plan limits from other vendors. Fast RAMS lists RAMS and COSHH in its product offering, while RapidRAMS lists pay-per-document pricing. Compare each product’s current plans and included documents. Pick by whether RAMS are your whole job or one part of CDM.
What should a principal contractor look for in RAMS software?
Look past the RAMS document itself. On a job with more than one contractor, the principal contractor must draw up the Construction Phase Plan before the site is set up and make sure every worker gets a suitable site induction. Shortlist tools that cover the CPP clearly, then check how each one handles inductions, subcontractor RAMS, worker sign-off, site files and the F10 record. A RAMS-only tool leaves those parts in separate files.
Does swiftRMS include Construction Phase Plans?
Yes. swiftRMS added Construction Phase Plan support in March 2026, according to its public changelog, and its homepage names CPPs. Its published pricing lists Pro at £49 a month and Business at £399 a month for teams of up to 10, with permits to work and approval workflows on Business. Check whether it covers site inductions, worker records, a site diary and the F10 if you need those in the same tool.
How we built this comparison
The Site Book publishes this comparison and is one of the products compared. The Site Book product and capacity facts and HandsHQ first-party pricing/features were reviewed on 2026-09-23; swiftRMS, HASpod and Evalu-8 pricing pages were re-checked on 2026-10-26; unchanged vendors retain their cited source dates.
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UK construction compliance tool that ships RAMS + CPP + COSHH + inductions (readable and acknowledgeable in 9 worker languages on Business, with the language audit-recorded) + worker sign-off, including optional 4-digit shared-link PIN evidence on Business, plus site attendance, portal users, site files, document reviews, subcontractor evidence and inspections/actions.
Generate a site-specific RAMS first draft from a natural-language brief, ready for competent-person review - not a template library you hand-fill.
Controlled document workflow without an enterprise contract: version history and a recorded issue confirmation before a document is shared with a client or downloaded in the app on every plan, re-sign on revision with superseded signatures preserved plus PCPP import, cert tracking and document checking from the £39/month Pro plan - and on Business, optional named-approver routing (a designated approver accepts or rejects each version, with recorded reasons, before it can be issued) plus client approve/reject/request-changes via share links.
Transparent pricing: Starter £0, Pro £39/month or £360/year, Business £199/month with 10 management logins and 50 active site portal users. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; project workers count as active portal users while assigned.
Build RAMS for any trade - add your own work types and method statements alongside the built-in library, reusable across projects, including a ready-made Commercial Solar PV group. Save a finished job as a reusable project template, or clone it, so the next job of the same shape starts from your own setup.
COSHH goes deep: a standalone COSHH assessment document, upload-a-Safety-Data-Sheet extraction, a site-specific substance register and an expert-reviewed library - plus per-worker RAMS sign-off and a one-click Audit Pack covering documents, sign-offs, worker evidence, attendance, incidents, COSHH, permits and up to the latest 500 live Site Diary entries.
