Honest comparison
The Site Book is best overall for 1–50 person UK builders needing full CDM coverage at a flat rate; HandsHQ remains the enterprise pick, and RapidRAMS suits pay-per-document occasional use.
The Site Book is a UK RAMS, CPP and COSHH software option for sole traders and small construction firms that need CDM 2015 paperwork without an enterprise system. It creates a free first project, then covers RAMS, construction phase plans, COSHH, inductions and worker sign-off on flat-rate plans from £39/month.
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Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-05-01.
Pricing, fit, and feature coverage side by side.
| Feature | The Site Book | HandsHQ | RAMS Pro | RapidRAMS | Evalu-8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | £39/mo or £360/yr | £44–275+/mo | Free; GBP15-45/mo | £15 per document, no subscription | Core from GBP2.50/licence/mo; RAMS quote-only |
| Team size | 1–50 | 10+ | Small-mid | Solo / occasional | 50+ |
| 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. | UK contractors who want AI RAMS on a low monthly tier, with COSHH, inductions, inspections, toolbox talks, and other modules from Pro upward. | Builders needing occasional RAMS on an ad-hoc basis who don't want a monthly subscription. | Large contractors and enterprise teams with 50+ people who need a broad EHS platform covering compliance, training, audits, and incident management. |
| 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. | Document and back-office user limits apply on the lower tiers, so growing teams need to watch usage and plan fit. | £15 per document becomes expensive fast once you need more than two RAMS a month -flat-rate tools pay for themselves quickly. | RAMS and COSHH add-on pricing is quote-only publicly, so small builders cannot compare the real monthly cost without a sales conversation. |
| RAMS | AI-generated, site-specific, edit in-browser. | Template library with editor. | AI RAMS generator with monthly limits. | Template-based, per document. | Module within wider EHS platform. |
| CPP | Full Construction Phase Plans -not just RAMS. | Pro/Enterprise module. | |||
| COSHH | Pro/Enterprise add-on module. | ||||
| Method statements | |||||
| Site inductions | Workers sign from their phone. | Pro/Enterprise add-on module. | |||
| Worker cert tracking | Training matrix on Pro/Enterprise. | ||||
| Incident log | Accident records on Pro/Enterprise. | ||||
| Permits to work | |||||
| Site diary | Site logbook present in the app bundle. | ||||
| Subcontractor tracking | Engineers and client contacts. | ||||
| Toolbox talks | Pro/Enterprise add-on module. | ||||
| PCPP import | Upload an existing PCPP and reuse the structure. | ||||
| Document checking | |||||
| Data export | |||||
| AI chat | |||||
| Site inspections | — | — | Pro/Enterprise add-on module. | — | — |
UK RAMS software splits cleanly into three camps: full CDM suites like The Site Book and HandsHQ that do RAMS plus everything else, focused RAMS-specific subscriptions like RAMS Pro, and pay-per-document tools like RapidRAMS for occasional use. The right pick depends on your team size, how many RAMS you write a month, and whether you also need CPP, COSHH, inductions, and worker tracking in the same bill. This roundup is based on publicly available vendor documentation reviewed in 2026.
At-a-glance fit per product - pulled from the same data that drives the snapshot table.
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 builder on domestic or small commercial jobs. Paid plans start at £39/month, or £360/year (about £30/month), and cover the whole CDM suite - RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, worker tracking - while the AI drafts a site-specific RAMS from a plain-English brief in minutes. The free first project removes the cost of trying it.
Recommended for: Sole traders and 1–10 person UK builders on domestic or small commercial work
Choose HandsHQ if you're a mid-to-large contractor with ten or more people and dedicated in-house H&S staff who want enterprise-grade team collaboration, approval workflows, and a curated template library. Per-seat enterprise pricing and demo-led onboarding fit firms that already have a compliance team producing RAMS day in, day out.
Recommended for: 10+ person firms with a dedicated health and safety manager
Choose RapidRAMS if you genuinely only write one or two RAMS a month and prefer paying about fifteen pounds per document with no monthly subscription. Beyond two documents a month, a flat-rate tool like The Site Book covers more ground and works out cheaper in total - the breakeven lands at roughly two per month.
Recommended for: Builders who write one or two RAMS a month at most
Choose The Site Book if you are comparing the total bill for RAMS, CPP, COSHH, site inductions, toolbox talks, and worker sign-off together. The dedicated cheapest-bundle comparison breaks down the maths, but the short version is simple: the first project is free, Pro is GBP39/month or GBP360/year, and you do not need separate document, training, and talks subscriptions.
Recommended for: Cheapest full RAMS + CPP + toolbox-talks bundle
Choose RAMS Pro if you want a mature, focused RAMS and method-statement subscription from a long-running UK vendor and you already handle CPP, COSHH, inductions, and worker tracking elsewhere. It's narrower than The Site Book by design - and for teams with existing tooling for the rest of CDM, that focus can be a feature.
Recommended for: UK firms that want a mature RAMS-specific subscription without the full CDM suite
Strengths, weaknesses, fit, and the sources every claim came from.
The Site Book Ltd
£39/mo or £360/yr
HandsHQ, part of HSI
£44–275+/mo
RAMS Pro
Free; GBP15-45/mo
RapidRAMS
£15 per document, no subscription
Evalu-8 EHS
Core from GBP2.50/licence/mo; RAMS quote-only
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Short, straight answers - the same questions real builders ask.
The Site Book covers the full CDM 2015 suite - RAMS, CPP, COSHH, inductions, and worker sign-off - in a single flat-rate subscription: Pro is £39/month or £360/year (about £30/month), with Business at £99/month. There is no per-seat surprise, no enterprise demo gate, and the AI generates site-specific documents in minutes from a plain-English brief. For most one-to-fifty-person UK builders, the combination of breadth, price, and speed is hard to match.
HandsHQ is the right choice for mid to large contractors with ten or more people and dedicated health and safety staff who need enterprise-grade team collaboration, approval workflows, and a curated template library. If you already have an in-house compliance team and you would rather edit detailed templates than write a brief, HandsHQ's detail-rich editor is likely a better fit than an AI document generator.
Yes. If you genuinely only write one or two RAMS a month, around fifteen pounds per document with no subscription is cheaper than a flat rate. Beyond two to three documents a month, flat-rate tools like The Site Book cover more ground and work out cheaper in total. The breakeven point depends on monthly versus annual billing.
Template packs are a one-off purchase that you then have to customise to each site by hand, every time. They are not software - they do not version, they do not generate from a brief, and they do not capture worker sign-off. RAMS software gives you those things plus an audit trail. For anyone running more than one project a month, software pays for itself in time saved.
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 see exactly what the platform produces before deciding whether to upgrade. Of the tools on this list, only The Site Book and RapidRAMS let you test the actual output without a sales call.
Based on publicly available vendor documentation and published pricing as of 2026-05-01.
Every pricing, feature, and fit claim in this comparison is pulled from public vendor documentation and cross-checked against independent sources. The “source basis” footer on each product card lists the exact URLs and the date we fetched them. We revisit this page at least every 90 days - last reviewed on .