Features
Everything your safety file needs, in one place.
From the first method statement to the final signed PDF, SafetyQuest covers the whole safety file — built for South African construction subcontractors around the OHS Act 85 of 1993 and the Construction Regulations 2014.
Describe the job. Get the paperwork.
List the tasks in your scope of work — "excavate foundations", "erect scaffolding", "install roof sheeting" — and SafetyQuest drafts a method statement for each one, then a step-by-step risk assessment for every step in it. What used to take days of writing becomes minutes of reviewing.
- Site-specific, not boilerplate — every document is drafted from your project details and scope of work.
- Citations you can trust — references to legislation are checked against the actual OHS Act sections, Construction Regulations and SANS codes, so made-up citations get flagged.
- You stay in control — AI writes the first draft; you review, edit and approve every document before it goes in the file.
What the AI drafts for you
- Method statements
- One per task, with ordered work steps you can rearrange and edit.
- Risk assessments (HIRA)
- Hazards, risk ratings and control measures for every step of every method statement.
- Health & safety plan
- A project-specific plan merged from AI output and structured legal templates.
Document library
The rest of the file, ready when you are.
Beyond the AI-generated documents, SafetyQuest ships with structured templates and libraries for everything else a principal contractor expects to see.
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Legal appointment letters
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Section 16(2), CR 8(1), risk assessor, first aider and more — generated from a built-in library of SA OHS roles with your company and personnel details filled in, ready to sign.
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Safe work procedures & substances
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Keep your company's safe work procedures and hazardous substance records in one library, ready to pull into any safety file.
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Fall protection plan (CR 10)
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Built from your selected access methods — scaffolding, roof work, MEWPs, ladders — with the CR 10(2) sections on medical fitness and rescue planning included.
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Emergency procedures
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Emergency procedures written from the subcontractor's perspective — covering what your team owns, and deferring to the principal contractor's site plan for site-wide arrangements.
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Baseline hazard library
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A pre-populated library of common South African construction hazards to build your baseline risk assessment from — no starting from scratch.
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Toolbox talks & registers
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A library of pre-written toolbox talks plus the full set of registers: attendance, incident, inspection, equipment and more.
Your people, papered properly.
A safety file is only as good as the signatures in it. SafetyQuest manages the personnel side — records, PPE, policies and signing — end to end.
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Personnel records & training
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Keep every worker's details, training certificates and work experience in one place, feeding straight into your training and competency registers.
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PPE issue tracking
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Record PPE issued to each worker, item by item, and generate signed issue registers for the file.
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Remote digital signing
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Send policies and PPE records to workers as a signing link — they sign from their own phone, no account needed.
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Audit trail on every signature
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Every signing session produces a signed PDF plus an audit-trail record, and policies carry revision numbers and review dates.
One click. One PDF.
Your entire safety file, compiled and print-ready.
- Cover page, table of contents and company profile
- Over 40 sections to choose from, arranged in your order
- Risk matrix, plans, appointments, registers and talks
- Attached certificates and documents embedded automatically
PDF compilation
Hand over one professional document, not a lever-arch file of loose pages.
When the file is ready, compile everything into a single print-ready PDF. Pick exactly which sections your client requires, drag them into the order their audit checklist follows, and regenerate whenever content changes — SafetyQuest tracks when your file is out of date.
See it work on your next job.
Sign up free and build your first safety file today. Plans from R99/month, month-to-month, cancel anytime.