Built for Landscapers
RAMS, CPP & Site Documents for Landscapers
Landscaping is construction work under CDM. Excavation, machinery, chemicals, and manual handling all need proper risk assessments — not a garden centre checklist.
No card needed · Used by UK landscapers · CDM 2015 compliant
Built for Landscapers
Real work, real hazards. Pick the job closest to yours to start a free job pack with the scope already filled in:
Garden design and construction
Paving, decking, retaining walls, water features — covers excavation, manual handling of heavy materials, and power tool use.
Start with this job →Commercial grounds maintenance
Large-area mowing, hedge trimming, tree work — covers machinery guarding, HAVS from vibrating tools, and working near public access areas.
Start with this job →Soft landscaping and planting
Topsoil spreading, planting, turfing — covers manual handling, pesticide and herbicide application, and plant and pedestrian segregation.
Start with this job →Hard landscaping and paving
Block paving, natural stone, resin-bound surfacing — covers silica dust from cutting, manual handling, and chemical exposure from resin products.
Start with this job →What You Get
Job-specific RAMS
Describe your job and get professional risk assessments covering hand-arm vibration syndrome (havs) 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 landscaper substances like glyphosate-based herbicide (e.g. roundup pro) and resin-bound surfacing chemicals.
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 landscapers face on site every day. Your RAMS will address each one with specific control measures.
- Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) — sustained use of strimmers, hedge trimmers, plate compactors, and vibrating tools
- Machinery injuries — mowers, hedge trimmers, chainsaws, and mini excavators cause lacerations and crush injuries
- Manual handling of heavy materials — paving slabs, aggregate, topsoil bags, and natural stone
- Excavation near buried services — even shallow digging for footings, drainage, and cable routes can strike services
- Pesticide, herbicide, and fertiliser exposure — chemical application in proximity to watercourses, children, and pets
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease) — infection risk from contact with water or soil contaminated with rat urine
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 landscaper?
- Yes. Landscaping work — even domestic garden projects — falls under CDM 2015 if it involves construction activity such as excavation, building retaining walls, installing drainage, or laying paving. RAMS are particularly important for machinery use, chemical application, and work near buried services.
- How long does it take to create RAMS for landscaping work?
- Under 5 minutes with The Site Book. Describe the job — for example, 'full garden redesign with retaining walls, paving, and planting' — and the AI generates RAMS covering excavation, manual handling, machinery use, and chemical application, specific to your scope of work.
- Does The Site Book cover pesticide and HAVS regulations?
- Yes. The Site Book generates RAMS and COSHH assessments covering pesticide and herbicide application under COSHH Regulations 2002, including product-specific hazard data. It also covers hand-arm vibration exposure under the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005, including exposure action values, tool trigger times, and health surveillance requirements.
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.