Several products can create both RAMS and Construction Phase Plans. The key difference is what happens next. The Site Book creates connected first drafts from one project record and carries the current versions through review, issue, worker sign-off, revision and audit - every draft still needs competent-person review before issue. For dedicated H&S teams wanting formal template-led RAMS governance, HandsHQ is the stronger specialist fit.
Several UK products can create both RAMS and Construction Phase Plans - the real difference is what happens after the first draft. The Site Book creates connected RAMS, CPP and induction first drafts from one project record, then carries the current versions through review, issue, version-specific worker sign-off, revision and audit in the same workflow. HandsHQ pairs a mature RAMS template editor with CPPs on team and annual plans, and remains the stronger specialist choice for organisations with a dedicated H&S function focused on formal RAMS governance. RAMS AI, SwiftRMS and HazardCo all generate both document types; their public materials centre on document creation rather than the controlled review-issue-sign-revise workflow that follows.
Based on each vendor's publicly available product and pricing materials, recorded per-fact with source URLs and fetch dates in the product records behind this page; HandsHQ facts most recently re-verified 2026-07-21. No head-to-head timing benchmark has been run.
Starter £0; Pro £39/mo or £360/yr; Business £199/mo
£44-£190/mo individual; teams from £275/mo
Pay-as-you-go from £29.97/300 credits; Professional £39.97/mo
from GBP49/mo
Annual membership: Foundation £468/yr (≤9 team), Complete £828/yr (unlimited); projects from £40 each
Team size
1 internal user on Pro; 5 management logins and 25 active site portal users on Business. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; project workers count as active portal users while assigned
One-person RAMS accounts through to enterprise teams
Sole trader to mid-sized
Small-mid
Sole trader to small/mid building companies (Foundation ≤9, Complete unlimited)
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 and subcontractors who want AI-generated Risk Assessments and Method Statements without a monthly commitment, paying per document via credits, with the option of a light Professional subscription for regular volume.
UK contractors who want fast AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW, and toolbox-talk documents with higher-tier controls for permits and reporting.
UK builders, renovators and trade businesses who want guided, simple site safety — site-specific RAMS, a CPP generator, QR inductions and a human advice line — rather than a configurable enterprise platform.
Not ideal for
New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ.
Pricing starts at £44/mo for Basic with 1 RAMS; Advanced is £99/mo for 3 RAMS, Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS, and Small Team starts from £275/mo billed annually plus setup.
Very new vendor — United Applications Ltd was only registered in 2025 (Companies House 16955835), so there is little independent review evidence or track record yet.
Higher starting price than The Site Book for small builders who need the full CDM pack.
Gaps versus a full UK CDM suite — no visible COSHH, CSCS/worker-cert tracking, right-to-work or permit-to-work features.
RAMS
AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser.
Template library with editor.
AI 12-step wizard with a 100+ UK hazard library.
AI-generated risk assessments.
Guided site-specific RAMS built on the phone; branded, emailable PDF.
CPP
Full Construction Phase Plans - not just RAMS.
Included on team plans and annual individual plans.
CDM 2015-aligned Construction Phase Plans.
Shipped 28 March 2026; named on the homepage/changelog, not the pricing page.
Construction Phase Plan generator from a short questionnaire.
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.
Hazardous-substance assessments.
Method statements
AI-generated from scope of works.
Method steps captured as part of the RAMS flow.
Site inductions
Workers sign from their phone - key H&S details readable in 9 languages.
Covers 9 mandatory induction sections.
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QR Hazard Board inductions; workers confirm they have read the plan.
Multilingual inductions (9 languages)
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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Incident log
RIDDOR-aligned incident reporting.
Business plan and above.
Report incident/near-miss in-app; the advisory team guides next steps.
Permits to work
Smart permit suggestions (hot works, confined space); not a full permit-issue workflow.
Business plan and above.
Site diary
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Subcontractor tracking
Separate Training Register distinguishes employee and subcontractor personnel.
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Toolbox talks
Structured talks with digital attendance.
Toolbox meetings delivered and recorded on site.
Site attendance
Business includes check-in/check-out and live H&S attendance.
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Daily scan-in creates attendance records and live who-is-on-site.
Site portal
Business includes up to 25 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.
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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.
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AI refinement/export, not review history workflow.
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Subcontractor evidence
Business evidence record, review and archive workflow.
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Site inspections
Business inspections with checklist items.
Site Review with photos, comments and a PDF report.
Corrective actions
Business corrective actions with owner, due date and completion state.
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PCPP import
Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure.
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Document checking
AI consistency checker reviews docs for gaps/contradictions.
AI refinement, not a dedicated checker.
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Data export
Includes the Audit Pack: one merged, audit-ready compliance-evidence PDF.
RAMS PDFs; Training Register reports and training-matrix export.
Branded print-ready PDF export.
PDF and Word export.
Auto-generated PDF reports stored in the Hub and emailed; no bulk/CSV export evidenced.
AI chat
AI document refinement.
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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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Free iOS and Android app — the primary product surface.
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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QR Hazard Board scan-in/out via the free app.
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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Contractor pre-qualification questionnaires and insurance reminders.
RFIs
Site Control (per-site tier) adds RFIs - create, attach, comment, answer and close.
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SSOW
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Video hazard analysis
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Video-to-hazard analysis.
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Why this matters
Search for RAMS software and every result promises a fast first draft. But if you need both RAMS and a Construction Phase Plan - which almost every contractor working under CDM 2015 does - the more useful question is what happens after the drafts appear. Who reviews them? How do they reach the client, the principal contractor and the workers? What happens to the signatures when the method changes mid-job? This comparison looks at the tools that publicly offer both document types, and judges them on the whole workflow rather than the generation step alone.
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
New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ.
Team size
1 internal user on Pro; 5 management logins and 25 active site portal users on Business. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; 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, Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS, and Small Team starts from £275/mo billed annually plus setup.
Team size
One-person RAMS accounts through to enterprise teams
RAMS AI
Best for
UK contractors and subcontractors who want AI-generated Risk Assessments and Method Statements without a monthly commitment, paying per document via credits, with the option of a light Professional subscription for regular volume.
Not ideal for
Very new vendor — United Applications Ltd was only registered in 2025 (Companies House 16955835), so there is little independent review evidence or track record yet.
Team size
Sole trader to mid-sized
swiftRMS
Best for
UK contractors who want fast AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW, and toolbox-talk documents with higher-tier controls for permits and reporting.
Not ideal for
Higher starting price than The Site Book for small builders who need the full CDM pack.
Team size
Small-mid
HazardCo
Best for
UK builders, renovators and trade businesses who want guided, simple site safety — site-specific RAMS, a CPP generator, QR inductions and a human advice line — rather than a configurable enterprise platform.
Not ideal for
Gaps versus a full UK CDM suite — no visible COSHH, CSCS/worker-cert tracking, right-to-work or permit-to-work features.
Team size
Sole trader to small/mid building companies (Foundation ≤9, Complete unlimited)
The bottom line
Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
Choose The Site Book if…
The Site Book Business is the strongest fit: RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions and toolbox talks from one project record, plus recorded review status, named-approver routing, version-specific worker sign-off and the Audit Pack export. The workflow after generation - not the generation itself - is where a firm this size loses time and evidence.
Recommended for: Builder-run contractor, roughly 10-50 staff, several live projects
Choose HandsHQ if…
HandsHQ is the stronger specialist choice where a dedicated H&S function spends its time producing and governing RAMS against a curated template library, with CPPs available on team and annual plans. Its depth in template-led RAMS workflows is the draw; the trade-off is that the wider site-compliance record - inductions, attendance, subcontractor evidence - sits outside it.
Recommended for: Organisation with a dedicated in-house H&S department focused on RAMS governance
Why switch to The Site Book
✓One project record drives the RAMS, CPP, induction, COSHH assessments and toolbox talks - project details are entered once, not retyped per document.
✓Documents are versioned and confirmed before issue, with recorded review status, reviewer notes and named-approver routing on Business.
✓Workers sign from their phone against the exact document version presented - and superseded versions keep their signatures when the job changes.
✓The Audit Pack exports documents, versions, reviews and sign-off evidence as one bundle when a client, principal contractor or inspector asks.
✓Flat-rate pricing - Starter free for a first project, Pro £39/month or £360/year, Business £199/month - rather than per-seat or per-document charges.
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; 5 management logins and 25 active site portal users on Business. Worker document signing has no per-signature charge; 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 people-on-site view, 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, with the language audit-recorded) + worker sign-off plus Business 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 in under five minutes, 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 5 management logins and 25 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.
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 that merges every compliance record into one PDF.
Weaknesses
New product (launched 2025) -smaller customer base and shorter track record than established tools like HandsHQ.
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.
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; team tiers publish user bands and prices before a sales conversation.
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, Pro is £190/mo for 6 RAMS, and Small Team starts from £275/mo billed annually plus setup.
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 offer direct signup, while team plans are billed annually plus a setup fee and higher-capability packages remain sales-assisted.
Pay-as-you-go from £29.97/300 credits; Professional £39.97/mo
Best for
UK contractors and subcontractors who want AI-generated Risk Assessments and Method Statements without a monthly commitment, paying per document via credits, with the option of a light Professional subscription for regular volume.
Team size
Sole trader to mid-sized
Sweet spot
A contractor issuing RAMS irregularly who prefers pay-as-you-go credits over a fixed subscription, and wants a consistency check plus permit suggestions on top of the generated draft.
Strengths
Pay-as-you-go credit model (£29.97 per 300 credits standalone, £24.97 as a Professional top-up; ~£0.08–£0.10 per document activation) means no monthly commitment — unusual in a market of monthly-only subscriptions.
Broad AI document set beyond RAMS: CPP, COSHH, lifting plans (LOLER-aligned), site inductions, toolbox talks with digital attendance, and RIDDOR-aligned incident reporting.
AI consistency checker plus smart permit suggestions (hot works, confined space) add a review layer on top of the generated draft.
First three sample document activations are free, and building/previewing is always free — credits are only spent on activation, lowering trial friction.
Weaknesses
Very new vendor — United Applications Ltd was only registered in 2025 (Companies House 16955835), so there is little independent review evidence or track record yet.
No worker certificate / CSCS tracking, site inspections, or RFI workflow — it is a document generator, not a site-operations or workforce-management platform.
Permits are AI suggestions rather than a full permit-to-work issue-and-approve workflow.
UK contractors who want fast AI-generated RAMS, COSHH, SSOW, and toolbox-talk documents with higher-tier controls for permits and reporting.
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 tiers make the entry point clear: Pro at GBP49/mo, Business at GBP149/mo, and Enterprise at GBP249/mo.
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.
No published site induction, worker certificate tracking, F10 workflow, or site diary coverage on the public pricing page.
Permits and incident reporting sit on the higher Business tier, not the entry Pro plan.
Annual membership: Foundation £468/yr (≤9 team), Complete £828/yr (unlimited); projects from £40 each
Best for
UK builders, renovators and trade businesses who want guided, simple site safety — site-specific RAMS, a CPP generator, QR inductions and a human advice line — rather than a configurable enterprise platform.
Team size
Sole trader to small/mid building companies (Foundation ≤9, Complete unlimited)
Sweet spot
A small UK builder who wants safety made simple, with an advice line and a QR Hazard Board for site sign-in, on a low flat annual fee.
Strengths
Transparent, low, all-in annual pricing (£468–£828/yr) that bundles the software, app and an unlimited human H&S advice line — an easy yes for a small builder.
Human advice line and guided incident response — a service layer that pure-software tools lack.
Mature, proven product at scale (10,000+ businesses / 150,000 users across AU/NZ) with an FMB partnership for UK credibility.
Strong physical-plus-digital site sign-in: a QR Hazard Board for one-tap induction and daily scan-in.
Weaknesses
Gaps versus a full UK CDM suite — no visible COSHH, CSCS/worker-cert tracking, right-to-work or permit-to-work features.
Non-UK origin with a young UK presence (live only since late 2024) and no named UK legal entity on the site.
Annual lump-sum plus per-project add-ons (from £40/project) make heavy-project costs less predictable than a flat subscription.
Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
Which tools can generate both RAMS and a CPP?
From current public materials: The Site Book creates both from one AI-driven project record. HandsHQ pairs template-led RAMS with CPPs on team and annual plans. RAMS AI and HazardCo generate CDM-aligned CPPs alongside guided RAMS, and SwiftRMS added CPP support in March 2026. RAMS-only tools such as RAMs App, RAMSGen and FastRAMS do not surface CPP generation publicly, so buyers needing both documents there end up pairing tools.
Does creating RAMS and CPP together actually save work?
Yes, when the documents genuinely share a project record. The site address, scope, hazards, welfare and emergency arrangements appear in both documents - on disconnected tools that information is typed twice and drifts apart when the job changes. In The Site Book you describe the project once and the RAMS, CPP, induction and COSHH assessments draw on the same record. The drafts still need competent-person review; the shared record removes duplicated typing, not checking.
What should I check beyond how the documents are generated?
The workflow that follows the first draft. Can a manager record a review decision? Is there a confirmed issue step? Do workers sign the exact version they were shown? When the document is revised, are old signatures preserved against the superseded version and new acknowledgments requested? Can you export the whole evidence trail when a principal contractor or auditor asks? Generation differences are minutes; the stages afterwards are where projects lose hours and evidence.
Is a generated RAMS or CPP automatically CDM 2015 compliant?
No - from any tool on this page, including The Site Book. Software can structure documents around CDM 2015 requirements and HSE guidance, but compliance depends on the arrangements being suitable for the actual project, implemented on site and kept up to date. A competent person must check each document against the real site, workforce, materials and working methods before issue, and revise it when the work changes.
How were these products compared?
Every factual claim comes from each vendor's own public materials - pricing pages, feature pages and help documentation - recorded with a source URL and the date it was checked. Where a capability is not visible in a vendor's public materials we say so rather than claiming it is absent. No timing comparisons are made: we have not benchmarked these products head-to-head, and we do not repeat vendors' speed claims as independent measurements.
How we built this comparison
Based on each vendor's publicly available product and pricing materials, recorded per-fact with source URLs and fetch dates in the product records behind this page; HandsHQ facts most recently re-verified 2026-07-21. No head-to-head timing benchmark has been run.
Every pricing, feature, and fit claim in this comparison is checked against public vendor documentation and, where relevant, independent sources. The “source basis” footer on each product card lists the exact URLs and the date we fetched them. The internal freshness dashboard flags source evidence after 45 days; priority pricing is scheduled for monthly review and feature or ownership claims for quarterly review. Last reviewed on .
UK construction compliance tool that ships RAMS + CPP + COSHH + inductions (readable and acknowledgeable in 9 worker languages, with the language audit-recorded) + worker sign-off plus Business 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 in under five minutes, 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 5 management logins and 25 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.
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 that merges every compliance record into one PDF.
