FeaturesHealth & SafetyRisk Assessments

Risk assessments that stay suitable and sufficient.

100+ UK industry templates, a 5×5 risk matrix, AI hazard and control suggestions, full version history, staff acknowledgement and one-click conversion into the daily checks that actually carry the controls out. Not a document that dies in a folder.

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Manual Handling – Cellar Delivery · RA-2025-018 · v3Published
ActivitiesScopePPELegislationAttachmentsReview due: 12 Apr 2025
Activity 1 · Moving full kegs from delivery to cellar12 · High
Hazards
Crush · slip · back strain
Persons at risk
Cellar staff, delivery drivers
Existing controls
Sack truck · PPE gloves · two-person lift
Additional controls
Annual training · spill kit at ramp
Sev 4×Lik 3=12 · High
Activity 2 · Loading dumb-waiter at service6 · Medium
Hazards
Trapped fingers · falling load
Persons at risk
Front-of-house, kitchen
Risk matrix · Activity 1
123455510152025448121620336912152246810112345
LowMedHighCritical
AISuggest hazards & controls
For: Moving full kegs from delivery to cellar
Hazard · Back strain
Manual handling regs 1992 — repetitive heavy lifting
Control · Mechanical aid
Sack truck for loads > 15 kg, ramp-foot brake
3 of 5 accepted · 92% confidence
The reality of paper

Eight problems paper risk assessments keep causing.

Each one costs UK operators hours, ratings, insurance excess or worse. Each one disappears when the risk assessment becomes digital.

The risk assessment is written once, filed, and never looked at again.

Cost:By the time the HSE, EHO or CQC asks for it, it doesn't reflect how the work is actually done - and "suitable and sufficient" becomes indefensible.

Fixed:Living digital assessments with full version history, scheduled review dates, and an AI review that reads the whole assessment for missing hazards and weak controls before an inspector does.

Building an assessment from a blank Word document is why they end up rushed, generic or copied from another site.

Cost:The assessment doesn't match the real activity, the real hazards or the real people at risk - so it protects nobody and proves nothing.

Fixed:Start from 100+ ready-to-run UK templates - fire, manual handling, DSE, working at height, lone working and more, by industry - then let the AI suggest the hazards and controls specific to your activity.

Every assessor scores risk differently, so "high risk" means something different at every site.

Cost:You can't compare sites, prioritise spend or prove a consistent standard across the estate when scoring is whatever each manager felt that day.

Fixed:A standardised 5×5 severity × likelihood matrix with colour-banded priority, rolled up into estate dashboards - risk trend, risk by group, risk distribution - so the picture is consistent and comparable.

Review dates pass and nobody notices until an inspection or an incident.

Cost:An out-of-date assessment after something goes wrong is worse than no assessment - it shows the risk was known and the review was missed.

Fixed:Every assessment carries a review date and frequency. Overdue and due-soon assessments surface on the dashboard and in the AI Health & Safety Manager's daily brief - before the date matters, not after.

The assessment lives in a folder; the controls never become daily practice on the floor.

Cost:Controls that exist only on paper don't reduce risk. The gap between the assessment and what staff actually do is exactly where incidents happen.

Fixed:Convert any approved assessment into a working checklist in one click. Every control becomes a daily verification check staff complete on mobile - the assessment and the floor stay in lockstep.

There's no proof a single member of staff ever read the assessment or was briefed on the controls.

Cost:When something goes wrong, "we had a risk assessment" isn't a defence if nobody can show the people doing the work had seen it.

Fixed:Issue an assessment to the staff and groups it applies to and track read-and-understood acknowledgement with a timestamp - so the briefing is evidenced, not assumed.

You can't prove what the assessment said at the time of an incident.

Cost:Six months later, the version that was live on the day is gone, overwritten by the one you updated after the event - and the audit trail is a guess.

Fixed:Full version history with side-by-side compare, created-and-updated audit, and a branded PDF snapshot of any version - exactly what was in force, on the day it mattered.

Sign-off is a signature on a printout that nobody can find.

Cost:No clear record of who approved the assessment, when, or whether the current version was ever signed off at all.

Fixed:A digital approval workflow records who reviewed and approved each version and when, so accountability for the assessment is evidenced and current - not a missing wet signature.

100+
UK RA templates
5×5
risk matrix
AI-reviewed
for gaps and weak controls
1 click
RA → daily checks
The promise

The most defensible way for a UK business to run risk assessments.

Start from 100+ UK templates or a blank build, score on a standardised 5×5 matrix, and let AI suggest the hazards and controls you've missed and review the whole assessment for gaps. Version every change, schedule reviews, get staff sign-off, and turn the controls into the daily checks that actually carry them out. Aligned to the Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 - suitable, sufficient and provable.

TEMPLATES
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Template library · 112 templates
All industriesHospitalitySearch…
RA
Manual Handling – Hospitality
Hospitality · UK · v1.3
RA
Working at Height – General
Construction · UK · v1.3
RA
Display Screen Equipment
Office · UK · v1.3
RA
Lone Working – Community Care
Healthcare · UK · v1.3
RA
Cellar Delivery & Drayage
Hospitality · UK · v1.3
ASSESS
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Manual Handling – Cellar Delivery
Activity 1 · Moving full kegs12 · High
Hazards
Crush · slip · back strain
Persons
Cellar staff, drivers
Risk matrix
123455510152025448121620336912152246810112345
LowMedHighCritical
ACT
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Convert to daily checklist
From RAManual Handling – Cellar Delivery · v3Controls6 · all checkedFrequencyDaily, opening
PREVIEW
Sack truck available?Y/N
Cellar ramp clear?Y/N
PPE gloves worn?Y/N
Two-person lift confirmed?Y/N
  • 100+ UK industry templates - fire, manual handling, DSE, working at height, lone working, and more.
  • 5×5 risk matrix - standardised severity × likelihood scoring with colour-banded priority across the estate.
  • AI hazard and control suggestions - the AI proposes the hazards and controls specific to your activity.
  • AI assessment review - the AI reads the whole assessment for missing hazards and weak controls.
  • Version history - every change versioned, side-by-side compare, branded PDF snapshot of any version.
  • Scheduled reviews - review dates and frequency, with overdue and due-soon surfaced before they bite.
  • Staff acknowledgement - issue to the people it covers and track read-and-understood with a timestamp.
  • One-click RA → checklist - every control becomes a daily verification check staff complete on mobile.
How it works

From blank document to live, evidenced control in four steps.

STEP 01

Start from a template or blank

Clone one of 100+ UK industry templates, or build from blank with full control over activities, hazards and controls.

STEP 02

Assess with the 5×5 matrix and AI

Score severity × likelihood; let the AI suggest hazards and controls and review the whole assessment for gaps.

STEP 03

Approve, issue and acknowledge

Sign off the version, issue it to the staff and groups it covers, and track read-and-understood acknowledgement.

STEP 04

Carry the controls out and review

Convert controls to daily checks in one click; review dates and the AI Health & Safety Manager keep it current.

The status quo vs. AssistantManagerHQ

Why digital risk assessments win.

Word and paper risk assessments
  • Written once, filed, and never reflecting how work is actually done.
  • Scored differently by every assessor at every site.
  • Review dates missed until an inspection or an incident.
  • Controls that live on paper and never reach the floor.
  • No proof staff ever read the assessment.
  • No reliable record of what the assessment said on the day.
AssistantManagerHQ risk assessments
  • Living assessments with version history and scheduled reviews.
  • One standardised 5×5 matrix and estate-wide risk dashboards.
  • Overdue reviews surfaced on the dashboard and in the AI brief.
  • One-click conversion of controls into daily mobile checks.
  • Timestamped staff read-and-understood acknowledgement.
  • A branded PDF snapshot of any version, exactly as it was in force.
Capabilities at a glance

Powerful features, simple to use.

100+ UK templates

Fire, manual handling, DSE, working at height, lone working and more, by industry.

5×5 risk matrix

Standardised severity × likelihood scoring with colour-banded priority.

AI hazard suggestions

The AI proposes hazards and controls specific to your activity.

AI assessment review

The AI reads the whole assessment for missing hazards and weak controls.

Alternative controls

AI-suggested better or alternative control options for identified hazards.

Version history

Every change versioned with side-by-side compare and a PDF snapshot.

Scheduled reviews

Review dates and frequency, with overdue and due-soon surfaced early.

Staff acknowledgement

Issue to staff and groups and track read-and-understood with a timestamp.

Approval sign-off

A digital workflow records who approved each version and when.

Branded PDF export

Colour-coded, fully-detailed PDF of any version for inspectors and insurers.

Risk dashboards

Risk trend, risk by group and distribution rolled up across the estate.

RA → daily checks

Convert controls into the daily mobile checks that carry them out.

Deep dive

Every capability, organised by how you'll use them.

Skim the themes on the left, or scroll the full set. Each capability surfaces the specific frustration it removes and a real-world use case.

01

Get up and running fast

Start from 100+ UK risk assessment templates

Clone from a library of over 100 ready-to-run UK risk assessment templates organised by industry - hospitality, construction, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and retail - covering fire, manual handling, display screen equipment, working at height, lone working, demolition and asbestos, and more. Each is a deep clone: activities, hazards, persons at risk, existing and additional controls all come with it, ready to tailor to your site. The blank-document blocker that keeps assessments generic disappears.

Use caseA new café clones the commercial-kitchen fire and manual-handling templates, tailors the activities to its layout, and has both assessments live the same afternoon.

AI hazard and control suggestions

For any activity, ask the AI to suggest the hazards and the existing and additional controls specific to that work. It proposes what an experienced assessor would - the hazards the person under time pressure forgets, and the controls that actually reduce the risk - as formatted suggestions you accept, edit or reject. Expertise on tap, not a blank box.

Use caseA manager assessing a new cellar delivery process gets AI-suggested manual-handling, slip and vehicle-movement hazards with matching controls, and keeps the three that apply.

AI review of the whole assessment

Ask the AI to review a complete assessment and it checks for completeness, missing hazards and weak or ineffective controls - a second pair of expert eyes before the assessment is signed off, not after an inspector or an incident finds the gap.

Use caseThe AI review of a long-standing workshop assessment flags a missing isolation control; it's added and the version re-approved before the next audit.

Alternative control methods

For an identified hazard, generate alternative or better control options - useful when the obvious control isn't practicable, or when "we've always done it this way" needs challenging with something more effective.

Build from blank - full control when you need it

Start from blank with full control over activities, hazards, persons at risk, existing and additional controls, PPE, legislation, scope, emergency procedures, first-aid provision and equipment. For the cases the template library doesn't cover, nothing is hidden behind a wizard.

02

Built for service businesses

A standardised 5×5 risk matrix

Score every activity on a 5×5 severity × likelihood matrix, producing a 1-25 risk priority with colour bands - low, medium, high, critical - applied consistently in every assessment, by every assessor, at every site. Risk stops being a word that means something different to everyone and becomes a number you can compare and prioritise.

Use caseHead office ranks the estate by critical-risk activity count and directs the capital safety budget at the sites that actually need it.

Activities, hazards, persons at risk and controls

Each assessment is structured the way the regulator expects: activities, the hazards in each, who is at risk, the controls already in place and the additional controls required, plus PPE, applicable legislation, emergency procedures and first-aid provision. The structure that makes an assessment "suitable and sufficient" is built in, not left to a free-text box.

Specific assessment types out of the box

Fire, manual handling, display screen equipment, working at height, lone working, demolition and asbestos - the specific assessment types UK operations actually need exist as ready templates, aligned to UK HSE expectations, rather than forced into one generic form.

Use caseA community care provider clones the lone-working template for its visiting carers and tailors the controls to its check-in procedure.

Attachments and supporting evidence

Attach floor plans, photos, manufacturer documents and supporting PDFs to the assessment, and embed images in the rich-text detail. The evidence behind the assessment lives with the assessment, not in a separate shared drive nobody can find.

Multi-site, zone and area scoping

Assign an assessment to the zones and areas it applies to - selecting a zone automatically scopes its areas - and control who sees and edits it by group and role. One estate, one library, correctly scoped, with each manager working their own area.

03

Real-time alerts

Scheduled reviews that surface before they bite

Every assessment carries a review date and a review frequency. Overdue and due-soon assessments are surfaced on the risk dashboard and deep-linked from the AI Health & Safety Manager's daily brief, so a missed review is visible while it can still be fixed - not discovered by an inspector.

Estate risk dashboards

Risk trend over time, risk by group, risk distribution across the bands and a per-zone risk summary - the operational risk picture for the whole estate on one screen, so leadership manages risk by trend instead of one assessment at a time.

04

Cross-module integrations

One-click conversion to daily checklists

Convert any approved assessment into a working checklist in one click. Every control measure and verification step becomes a question staff complete on mobile, on the schedule you set - so the controls in the assessment are the checks happening on the floor, not two parallel universes. This is the integration that makes a risk assessment do something instead of sit in a folder.

Use caseA COSHH-style cleaning-chemical assessment generates the daily handling checklist - PPE check, ventilation check, decant procedure - automatically, completed and evidenced every shift.

Surfaces in the AI Health & Safety Manager brief

The AI Health & Safety Manager reads the risk module and reports overdue reviews in the leadership daily brief in plain English, with a deep link straight to the overdue assessments. Risk review becomes something the leadership team is told about, not something they have to remember to check.

Issue to staff with acknowledgement tracking

Issue an assessment to the staff and groups whose work it covers and track read-and-understood acknowledgement with a timestamp. "We had a risk assessment" becomes "these named people confirmed they had read it on these dates" - the difference between a defence and an admission.

Part of one operations platform

Risk Assessments isn't a standalone document tool. Controls flow into Checklists as daily checks; review status flows into the AI Health & Safety Manager brief; the assessment, the checks that carry it out and the oversight that keeps it current are one system, scoped to the same zones, areas, groups and roles as the rest of the platform.

05

Audit-ready reporting

Full version history and compare

Every edit creates a new version, with older versions retained and a side-by-side compare of any two. Created-by and updated-by are recorded throughout. When an incident is investigated months later, the version that was in force on the day is still there - exactly as it was.

Approval and sign-off

A digital approval workflow records who reviewed and approved each version and when, so the current assessment has clear, evidenced accountability instead of a wet signature on a printout nobody can locate.

Branded, colour-coded PDF export

Export any version as a fully-detailed, branded PDF - every activity, hazard, person at risk, control, PPE requirement and the colour-coded risk priority - generated server-side and ready to hand to an HSE inspector, an insurer, a client or a board, with no reformatting.

Filterable register and export

The risk assessment register filters by status, priority, zone, area, assessor, date and review status, and exports to a spreadsheet for board packs, insurance renewals and audit preparation. The evidence is a filtered export, not a folder hunt.

FAQ

Questions buyers ask before they switch.

Answers from our UK-based onboarding team. Need something not covered? Book a walkthrough →

A single site is typically producing its first assessment the same afternoon. Clone a UK template close to your activity, tailor the activities, hazards and controls, use the AI to suggest what's missing, and you have a suitable and sufficient assessment without starting from a blank page.

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