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The Site Book wins for sole traders and 1–10 person builders on flat-rate pricing; HandsHQ remains the right call for 10+ person firms with a dedicated health and safety manager.
The Site Book is a flat-rate £30/month CDM suite for UK sole traders and small builders — RAMS, CPPs, COSHH, inductions, generated from a plain-English job brief with self-serve signup. HandsHQ is an excellent per-seat platform built for mid-to-large contractors with a dedicated H&S team, onboarded via sales demo and annual contract. Pick The Site Book if you're under ten people and want monthly billing; pick HandsHQ if you already run enterprise compliance and need scale features.
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Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-04-18.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book | HandsHQ |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | from £30/mo | £44–275+/mo |
| Team size | 1–50 | 10+ |
| Best for | Small-to-mid UK builders (1–50 users) who need a full CDM pack -RAMS, CPP, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks -without paying enterprise per-seat prices. | Mid-to-large contractors (10+ people) with a dedicated health and safety manager who need enterprise-grade team collaboration, approval workflows, and a curated template library. |
| 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 Teams starts from £275/mo. |
| RAMS | AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser. | Template library with editor. |
| CPP | Full Construction Phase Plans -not just RAMS. | |
| COSHH | ||
| Method statements | ||
| Site inductions | Workers sign from their phone. | |
| Worker cert tracking | ||
| Incident log | ||
| Permits to work | ||
| Site diary | ||
| Subcontractor tracking | ||
| Toolbox talks | ||
| PCPP import | Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure. | |
| Document checking | ||
| Data export | ||
| AI chat |
HandsHQ is a serious platform trusted by some of the biggest names in UK construction - an award-winning compliance tool built for mid-to-large contractors with dedicated health and safety teams. The Site Book was built for the other end of the market: sole traders and small firms who need professional compliance documents but don't have an H&S department to produce them. Both tools work. They just optimise for different scales - pick the one whose sweet spot matches yours.
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Pick the option that matches how your team actually works.
Choose The Site Book if you're a sole trader or running a one-to-ten person firm on domestic or small commercial work. Flat-rate pricing from thirty pounds a month, a free tier to test the product, self-serve signup with no demo required, and AI that drafts a site-specific RAMS from a plain-English brief in under five minutes. The full CDM pack - RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, worker tracking - ships in one subscription.
Recommended for: Sole traders and 1–10 person builders on domestic or small commercial jobs
Choose HandsHQ if you're running a mid-to-large firm with ten or more people and a dedicated health and safety manager who wants enterprise-grade team collaboration, approval workflows, and a detail-rich template editor. HandsHQ's curated template library and demo-led onboarding suit in-house H&S teams producing compliance documents regularly, and the tiered pricing is workable once you've got the scale.
Recommended for: 10+ person firms with a dedicated health and safety manager
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
The Site Book is built for sole traders and teams of one to ten. It ships transparent pricing from thirty pounds a month, a free tier, and self-serve signup with no demo required. HandsHQ targets mid to large contractors with dedicated health and safety staff - more powerful, but its published tiers start at forty-four pounds a month for one RAMS and scale up with RAMS volume. If your team is under ten, The Site Book is the faster choice.
HandsHQ publishes four monthly tiers: Basic at forty-four pounds for one RAMS, Advanced at ninety-nine pounds for three RAMS, Pro at one hundred and ninety pounds for six RAMS, and Teams from two hundred and seventy-five pounds. The Site Book takes a flatter approach: a free tier to start, paid plans from thirty pounds a month, and no sales call required. That suits solo builders and smaller firms who want predictable pricing before they sign up.
Yes. The Site Book has a free tier that lets you create your first project and generate real documents - your CPP, RAMS, and site induction - without entering a credit card. You can see exactly what the platform produces before deciding whether to upgrade. HandsHQ requires a sales demo before a hands-on test, which is a slower path for a small builder evaluating options.
HandsHQ focuses on RAMS and method statement generation for mid to large teams. Worker site inductions and digital sign-off from a phone are not its main strength. The Site Book ships RAMS, CPPs, COSHH, emergency plans, and digital site inductions with worker sign-off in the starter plan - the full CDM pack in one subscription, not split across add-ons or seats.
Yes. The Site Book accepts PCPP uploads and reuses the structure, so existing HandsHQ exports give you a head start. Day-to-day authoring moves into The Site Book's natural-language brief, which cuts a typical RAMS from about two hours to under five minutes. Most teams run both in parallel for a few weeks during the switch, then drop the HandsHQ subscription once their live projects are migrated.
Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-04-18.
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