Built for Carpenters
RAMS, CPP & Site Documents for Carpenters
Whether it is first fix framing or bespoke joinery installation, your RAMS need to cover the real hazards of working with timber, power tools, and construction chemicals.
No card needed · Used by UK carpenters · CDM 2015 compliant
Built for Carpenters
Real work, real hazards. Pick the job closest to yours to start a free job pack with the scope already filled in:
First fix carpentry
Stud walls, floor joists, roof trusses, noggins — covers working at height, manual handling of heavy timbers, and power tool injuries.
Start with this job →Second fix carpentry
Door hanging, skirting, architrave, kitchen fitting — covers dust from cutting MDF, nail gun injuries, and repetitive strain from hand tools.
Start with this job →Roof truss installation
Crane offloading, temporary bracing, permanent fixing — covers working at height, crush injuries from truss handling, and wind loading on unbraced trusses.
Start with this job →Staircase installation
Trimming joists, fitting stringers, balustrade installation — covers working in stairwells, heavy manual handling, and fall hazards during installation.
Start with this job →What You Get
Job-specific RAMS
Describe your job and get professional risk assessments covering wood dust exposure and other trade-specific hazards.
Construction Phase Plans
CDM 2015 compliant CPPs created from your job description. Covers management arrangements, risk control, welfare, and emergency procedures.
COSHH Assessments
Smart substance search and SDS upload. Pre-loaded with common carpenter substances like wood preservative treatments (e.g. tanalith, copper-based preservatives).
Site Inductions
Digital induction sign-offs for every worker on site. Linked to your CPP and site rules. Works on any phone or tablet.
Worker & subcontractor tracking
Track certifications, insurance, and CSCS cards. Get alerts before documents expire. One view for all your workers.
Digital document sharing
Share your full document pack with clients, principal contractors, or inspectors via a secure read-only link. No login needed on their end.
Common Hazards We Cover
These are the real risks carpenters face on site every day. Your RAMS will address each one with specific control measures.
- Wood dust exposure — hardwood dust is a known carcinogen and MDF dust causes severe respiratory irritation
- Power tool injuries — circular saws, nail guns, routers, and chop saws are involved in a high proportion of carpentry injuries
- Manual handling of heavy timbers — roof trusses, engineered beams, and sheet materials
- Working at height — first fix carpentry often involves work at eaves level, in roof spaces, and on scaffolding
- Noise exposure — sustained use of circular saws, routers, and nail guns frequently exceeds the upper action value of 85 dB(A)
- Fire risk from hot work and dust accumulation around power tools and extraction systems
What's included at each tier
Starter
£0- Risk Assessments (RAMS)
- Construction Phase Plans (CPP)
- Site inductions
- Worker document signing (no per-signature charge)
Pro
£39/mo or £360/yr- Risk Assessments (RAMS)
- Construction Phase Plans (CPP)
- Site inductions
- COSHH assessments (standalone doc, SDS upload, site-specific register)
- Worker cert tracking and expiry alerts
- Right-to-work evidence records
- Subcontractor tracking
- Toolbox talks
- Worker document signing (no per-signature charge)
- Integrations (Drive, Xero, Zapier)
Business
£199/mo- Risk Assessments (RAMS)
- Construction Phase Plans (CPP)
- Site inductions
- COSHH assessments (standalone doc, SDS upload, site-specific register)
- Worker cert tracking and expiry alerts
- Right-to-work evidence records
- Subcontractor tracking
- Toolbox talks
- Worker document signing (no per-signature charge)
- Integrations (Drive, Xero, Zapier)
- Up to 10 internal team logins
- Site Supervisor: a field-only login for whoever runs the site
- Up to 50 active site portal users
- Site attendance check-in/check-out
- Multilingual worker inductions (9 languages)
- Optional 4-digit PIN for shared-link document sign-off
- Slack Site Ready readiness checks
Site Control
£675/site/mo- Risk Assessments (RAMS)
- Construction Phase Plans (CPP)
- Site inductions
- COSHH assessments (standalone doc, SDS upload, site-specific register)
- Worker cert tracking and expiry alerts
- Right-to-work evidence records
- Subcontractor tracking
- Toolbox talks
- Worker document signing (no per-signature charge)
- Integrations (Drive, Xero, Zapier)
- Up to 10 internal team logins
- Site Supervisor: a field-only login for whoever runs the site
- Up to 50 active site portal users
- Site attendance check-in/check-out
- Multilingual worker inductions (9 languages)
- Optional 4-digit PIN for shared-link document sign-off
- Slack Site Ready readiness checks
- Permanent entrance QR: guest sign-in and contractor self-join
- CSCS credential capture, review and expiry alerts
- Digital induction gating before check-in
- Live people-on-site, attendance and audit-grade exports
- Single sign-on (SSO) with Okta or Microsoft Entra
- Public REST API with scoped account keys
- Signed real-time webhooks into your own systems
Running live sites with subcontractors? Site Control is the per-site enterprise tier above Business — entrance QR sign-in, CSCS checks, induction gating, live attendance and audit-grade exports. From £675/site per month, plus £5,000 setup.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Do I need RAMS as a carpenter?
- Yes. Carpentry involves significant hazards including wood dust exposure (a known carcinogen for hardwoods), power tool injuries, and working at height. Principal contractors will expect trade-specific RAMS before you start on site. Under CDM 2015, your risk assessments should cover the actual tools and materials you are using on each job.
- How long does it take to create RAMS for carpentry work?
- Under 5 minutes with The Site Book. Describe the job — for example, 'first fix carpentry on a new-build timber frame' — and the AI generates RAMS covering wood dust, power tools, manual handling of timbers, and working at height, with specific control measures for each.
- Does The Site Book cover wood dust exposure limits?
- Yes. The Site Book generates RAMS that reference the current workplace exposure limit (WEL) for wood dust of 3 mg/m³ under COSHH Regulations 2002. It covers on-tool extraction requirements, RPE selection, and the distinction between softwood and hardwood dust hazards. COSHH assessments for specific wood treatments and preservatives are also supported.
Why The Site Book
- 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 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 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.
Ready to stop writing RAMS by hand?
Describe your job, get professional RAMS, CPP, and COSHH assessments in minutes. No credit card required.