# What KASQ is

KASQ is health and safety software for construction sites in Great Britain. It runs in a web browser, with nothing to install: the office works on a desk, the site works on a phone, usually by scanning a QR code on a board.

It takes the safety paperwork a site already does and does the slow part: reading a RAMS against the twelve questions a reviewer asks, writing a toolbox talk from HSE guidance, building a COSHH assessment from a safety data sheet, adding up a day's noise or vibration, keeping the equipment and certificate registers, and turning an audit walk into a PDF report. The [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md) lists every tool.

## Who it is for

The people who look after health and safety on UK construction sites: the HSE manager or advisor in the office, the supervisor and the site manager, and the crew who read the talks, the boards and the registers.

## Languages

The office works in English. The crew's pages speak Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian — and Russian too on toolbox talks and Take 5.

## Where the answers come from

The site advisor and the toolbox talks answer from a library of checked GB guidance — HSE's HSG, L-series, INDG and CIS documents and HSE's own site pages — and name the document each point came from. When the checked guidance does not cover a question, KASQ says so rather than filling the gap with an opinion.

## What KASQ will not do

- **Invent a number.** Where the guidance gives no figure, KASQ says so. An estimate is always marked as one, and never dressed as a measurement.
- **Sign for you.** No tool approves a RAMS, signs off a COSHH assessment or decides what an auditor saw. The judgement and the signature stay with the competent person.
- **Hide the source.** Every talk and every answer names the HSE document it came from.

KASQ is guidance, not a duty holder. Your site rules, your RAMS, your permits and a competent person come first; nothing in KASQ transfers a legal duty from you to us.

## Who makes it

KASQ is an APPSTAR LTD product. It is not affiliated with the Health and Safety Executive; HSE guidance is quoted under the Open Government Licence v3.0. What KASQ keeps about you is in the [privacy notice](https://kasq.uk/privacy). Questions: [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk).

## Next

- [Tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md)
- [Getting started](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/getting-started.md)
- [Plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md)