Built for Paving Contractors
RAMS, CPP & Site Documents for Paving Contractors
Paving work means operating plate compactors, cutting slabs, and excavating near services. Your RAMS need to cover silica dust, vibration exposure, and manual handling of heavy materials.
No card needed · Used by UK paving contractors · CDM 2015 compliant
Built for Paving Contractors
Real work, real hazards. Pick the job closest to yours to start a free job pack with the scope already filled in:
Block paving driveways
Excavation, sub-base preparation, and block laying for domestic driveways — covers plant operation, manual handling, vibration from compaction, and working near buried services.
Start with this job →Patio and garden paving
Natural stone or porcelain patio installation — covers slab cutting (silica dust), manual handling of heavy slabs, cement mixing, and working on slopes.
Start with this job →Commercial paving and car parks
Large-area paving for retail, commercial, or public spaces — covers plant operation, working near live traffic, drainage integration, and coordination with other trades.
Start with this job →Dropped kerb and crossover installation
Vehicle crossover construction requiring highway authority approval — covers working adjacent to public highways, traffic management, excavation near services, and reinstatement to adoptable standards.
Start with this job →What You Get
Job-specific RAMS
Describe your job and get professional risk assessments covering silica dust 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 paving contractor substances like respirable crystalline silica (from cutting), cement (wet and dry), jointing compounds, sealants.
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 paving contractors face on site every day. Your RAMS will address each one with specific control measures.
- Silica dust — cutting concrete blocks, natural stone, and porcelain slabs generates respirable crystalline silica
- Manual handling — paving slabs, kerb stones, and bags of sand/cement are heavy and involve repetitive bending and lifting
- Hand-arm vibration — plate compactors, wacker plates, and disc cutters expose workers to vibration above daily action values
- Buried services — excavation for sub-base and drainage regularly encounters gas, water, electric, and telecoms services
- Plant and machinery — mini-diggers, dumpers, and compactors create crush and struck-by risks on confined domestic sites
- Cement burns — prolonged skin contact with wet cement and mortar causes alkite burns that develop hours after exposure
Key Regulations & Standards
NRSWA 1991 (for highway works) and HSE guidance on silica dust (EH40 Workplace Exposure Limits)
Paving contractors cutting stone or concrete must comply with COSHH Regulations and HSE workplace exposure limits for respirable crystalline silica (0.1 mg/m3). Water suppression or extraction is required on all cutting operations. Hand-arm vibration exposure must be managed under the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005. Highway works (dropped kerbs, crossovers) must comply with NRSWA 1991 and require New Roads and Street Works Act qualifications. CDM 2015 applies to all paving work.
What's included at each tier
Starter
£0- Risk Assessments (RAMS)
- Construction Phase Plans (CPP)
- Site inductions
Pro
£30/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
- 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
- Integrations (Drive, Xero, Zapier)
- Up to 5 internal team logins
- Up to 25 active site portal users
- Site attendance check-in/check-out
- Multilingual worker inductions (9 languages)
- 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
- Integrations (Drive, Xero, Zapier)
- Up to 5 internal team logins
- Up to 25 active site portal users
- Site attendance check-in/check-out
- Multilingual worker inductions (9 languages)
- 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 paving contractors need RAMS?
- Yes. Paving work involves excavation near buried services, slab cutting (silica dust), heavy manual handling, vibration from compaction equipment, and plant operation — all significant risk activities under CDM 2015. Clients and principal contractors will expect RAMS that cover these hazards. Even domestic driveway work benefits from professional RAMS.
- How long does it take to create RAMS for paving work?
- Under 5 minutes with The Site Book. Describe the job — for example, 'block paving driveway with new sub-base and drainage for a semi-detached house' — and the AI generates RAMS covering excavation, buried services, compaction, manual handling, and dust control, specific to your project.
- Does The Site Book cover silica dust and vibration exposure?
- Yes. The Site Book generates RAMS that reference COSHH workplace exposure limits for respirable crystalline silica and the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005. It covers water suppression for cutting, RPE selection, vibration exposure calculations, and the requirement for health surveillance where exposure limits are exceeded.
Why The Site Book
- 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.
- AI-generated documents are site-specific from a natural-language brief, not a template library you hand-fill - cuts writing a RAMS from 2 hours to under 5 minutes.
- Worker sign-off, PCPP import, cert tracking, and document checking sit on the £39/month Pro plan, not locked behind an enterprise contract.
- Transparent pricing: Starter £0, Pro £39/month or £360/year, Business £199/month with 5 internal team logins and 25 active site portal users.
- 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.
Ready to stop writing RAMS by hand?
Describe your job, get professional RAMS, CPP, and COSHH assessments in minutes. No credit card required.