Audit & Inspection
Plan every audit. Apply the same standards everywhere. Capture evidence in the field. Assign corrective actions immediately. Then track every finding through to completion all within Safety Mate®.
Why teams switch
Audits often become fragmented across paper forms, spreadsheets, emails and separate action trackers. That makes it difficult to know whether audits happened on time, which findings remain open and where the same failures keep returning.
Safety Mate® brings your audit programme, templates, evidence, findings, corrective actions and reporting into one connected system.
One connected process from audit plan to verified close-out.
Every audit, inspection, photograph, finding and follow up action is stored against the relevant site, project or team - searchable, traceable and ready when you need it.
Turn your requirements into reusable digital templates so every auditor checks the right things, asks the same questions and captures the evidence you require.
Plan recurring and one-off audits, assign clear ownership and surface overdue work before it creates a gap in your assurance programme.
Raise an action directly from any failed question, assign an owner and deadline, and follow it through to completion without relying on separate spreadsheets or email chains.
Template builder
Create digital templates for any process you need to audit or inspect, including construction sites, vehicles, plant, equipment, PPE and management systems.
Set the questions, scoring rules and evidence requirements once, then apply them consistently across your organisation.
Create templates around your own procedures, risks and standards rather than forcing your operation into a generic checklist.
Update a template once and make the latest version available to the people carrying out audits across your sites and projects.
Choose from more than 200 ready-to-use Safety Mate® templates for common safety audits and inspections. Use them immediately or copy and adapt them to match your organisation.
In the field
Complete audits on a phone or tablet while walking the site. Record the result against each question, attach supporting evidence and create follow-up actions before leaving the area.
A straightforward mobile workflow helps auditors concentrate on the site - not the paperwork.
Attach photographs and supporting notes directly to the relevant question, giving reviewers a clear record of what the auditor saw.
Turn a failed question or observation into an assigned corrective action while the issue is still in front of you.
Corrective actions
Recording a problem is only the beginning. Safety Mate® connects audit findings to corrective actions so managers can see who is responsible, what is overdue and whether the issue has actually been closed.
Assign every action to a named person with a clear target date.
Keep the original audit question, evidence, finding and resulting action connected in one record.
See action completion rates and outstanding work across sites, teams and projects.
Audit planning
Plan who will audit what, where and when across the year ahead. Safety Mate® gives you one view of planned, completed and overdue audits across every site, project and team.
Build a forward programme for recurring assurance activities instead of organising each audit individually.
Every planned audit has a named auditor, location and due date from the outset.
Filter the programme by auditor, site, project or status and quickly identify upcoming, completed and overdue work.
Analytics
Safety Mate® brings audit performance together across your organisation, giving operational managers and leadership a clear view of assurance activity and unresolved risk.
Monitor planned and completed audits, overdue activity and open corrective actions across every site and project.
See which questions fail most frequently and where the same issues continue to appear.
Start with the organisation-wide picture, then drill down to the individual audit, question, photograph or action behind the result.
How it works
Encode your standards into reusable digital checklists and question sets.
Set recurring schedules and Safety Mate® notifies assignees automatically.
Complete on mobile with photos, notes and actions raised on the spot.
Track actions to completion and watch trends across your portfolio.
FAQ
Safety audit software digitises the whole audit cycle: building checklists, scheduling audits, completing them on site with photos and evidence, raising follow-up actions and tracking completion. Safety Mate® keeps a complete record for every site and project, so you always know what was checked, when and by whom.
An inspection checks physical conditions - a site walk, a vehicle check, a piece of plant - while an audit examines whether your safety management system is working as intended. Safety Mate® handles both with the same template builder, scheduling and action tracking.
Yes. Create reusable templates for sites, vehicles, plant and PPE, tailored to your own standards and question sets. Templates keep every audit consistent across teams and locations, and can be updated centrally at any time.
Yes. Schedule recurring audits - weekly site inspections, monthly plant checks, annual system audits - and Safety Mate® automatically notifies assignees when they're due, then tracks completion rates across your portfolio.
Yes. Internal audits are a core requirement of ISO 45001, and Safety Mate® provides the audit programme, records, corrective actions and management reporting an external assessor expects to see. Our free ISO 45001 guide walks through the full requirements.
Plans start from £49.99 per month, and every plan includes a free 14-day trial with full access to audits, inspections and follow-up actions. Annual billing saves up to 17%.
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