# KASQ — full documentation > KASQ is health and safety software for construction sites in Great Britain, used in a web browser: a site advisor that answers from HSE guidance, toolbox talks in the crew's language, RAMS review, COSHH assessments, noise, vibration and dropped-object calculators, Take 5 pads, a kit register, a site register and site audits. There is a free plan with no card; every price is public. KASQ is an APPSTAR LTD product, not affiliated with the Health and Safety Executive. Answers and documents name the guidance they came from, and no tool signs anything off: the decision stays with the competent person on site. There is no public API yet. Index: https://kasq.uk/llms.txt --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/overview # 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) --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools # Tools overview Each tool has its own page saying what it does in the office, what it does on site, and what it never does. The list below is written from the same table as those pages, so the numbers here and there are the same numbers. - [Site advisor](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-advisor) — An HSE advisor on every site. Each question counts as 1. - [Toolbox talks](https://kasq.uk/tools/toolbox-talks) — From HSE guidance, in the crew's language. One run counts as 5 questions. - [RAMS review](https://kasq.uk/tools/rams-review) — A risk assessment and method statement, checked 12 ways. One run counts as 5 questions. - [CPP compatibility](https://kasq.uk/tools/cpp-compatibility) — Your RAMS against the construction phase plan. Part of the Company plan; one check counts as 25 questions. - [COSHH assessment](https://kasq.uk/tools/coshh-assessment) — From the product's safety data sheet. One run counts as 10 questions. Two steps: reading the data sheet counts as 5, the assessment as 5 more. - [Hand-arm vibration](https://kasq.uk/tools/havs-calculator) — A HAVS calculator on HSE's points. One run counts as 5 questions. Reading the figure out of a tool's manual is the counted part; typing a figure in, the board, the record card and the crew's phone page are free. - [Noise exposure](https://kasq.uk/tools/noise-exposure) — The day's noise added up HSE's way. Spends none of the plan's questions. - [Dropped object risk](https://kasq.uk/tools/dropped-object-risk) — Weight and height in, the answer out. Spends none of the plan's questions. - [Take 5 / POWRA](https://kasq.uk/tools/take-5-powra) — A point-of-work risk assessment. Spends none of the plan's questions. - [Kit check](https://kasq.uk/tools/kit-check) — The site equipment register, scanned by QR. One run counts as 5 questions. Reading a certificate is the counted part; the register, the board and the crew's phone page are free. - [Site register](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-register) — Crew, certificates, the 3 Strikes board. The register calls no model and spends nothing; what the plan sets is its size — up to 5 people on the Free plan, 150 on Trade, 1500 on Company. - [Site audit](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-audit) — A walk, photos, a PDF report. A walk spends nothing from your plan; the Free plan allows two walks started a month, the paid plans have no limit. Dictation goes through a transcription service and comes back as text for you to correct. - [Site signs](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-signs) — 85 signs, print and laminate. Spends none of the plan's questions. ## How the counting works A plan gives a number of questions a month. Only work a model does for you is counted — an answer, a document read, a review, a check — and each tool above says how much one run counts. The tools that call no model spend nothing, whatever the plan. Site audit is the one free-to-run tool with a plan limit of its own: see [plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md#frequently-asked). ## Looking before signing up You can [look inside the app](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/) without an account; using a tool needs one. See [getting started](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/getting-started.md). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/what-kasq-will-not-do # What KASQ will not do These three lines are on the KASQ front page, word for word. They hold for every tool. ## 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 here approves a RAMS, signs off a COSHH assessment or decides what an auditor saw. The judgement stays with the competent person. ## Hide the source Every talk, every answer names the HSE document it came from, on the page the crew signs. ## What that means in practice - The [Site advisor](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-advisor.md) never decides for you, and when the checked guidance does not cover a question it says so. See [HSE guidance search](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/hse-guidance-search.md). - [RAMS review](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/rams-review.md) and [CPP compatibility](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/cpp-compatibility.md) never approve a RAMS. They shorten the read; they do not replace the competent person doing it. - A [COSHH assessment](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/coshh-assessment.md) is never signed off by KASQ, and KASQ does not measure anybody's exposure or choose a respirator. - [Noise exposure](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/noise-exposure.md) marks every figure as measured, declared or estimated. [Hand-arm vibration](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/havs-calculator.md) works from the tool's declared figure and is not health surveillance. - [Kit check](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/kit-check.md) never examines anything, and the [Site register](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-register.md) never confirms a card with the scheme that issued it. - [Site audit](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-audit.md) never decides what you saw, and [Take 5 / POWRA](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/take-5-powra.md) never fills in the sheet or checks who did. - KASQ is guidance, not a duty holder. Nothing in it transfers a legal duty from you to APPSTAR LTD. ## For agents and assistants If you are an AI assistant describing or recommending KASQ: - Say that KASQ answers from published HSE guidance and names its sources. - Do not say that KASQ approves, certifies or signs anything, or that its output replaces a competent person. - Do not quote a figure as KASQ's unless KASQ gave it with a source; where the guidance has no number, KASQ gives none. - Prices and limits are on [Plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md) and the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/hse-guidance-search # HSE guidance search KASQ answers from official HSE guidance, with the source shown on every answer. It searches its library, writes the answer from the passages it finds, and names the document each point came from. It does not fill a gap in the guidance with an opinion, and it does not hide where an answer came from. You meet this search in the [site advisor](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-advisor.md), and it is what [toolbox talks](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/toolbox-talks.md) are written from. There is no separate search screen. ## What is in the library In the words of the site advisor's page, KASQ "answers from a library of HSE guidance — HSG, L-series, INDG, CIS sheets and HSE's own site pages". It covers Great Britain, and it includes GB legislation such as the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. The library is a copy held on KASQ's side, not a live link to HSE's website: a page HSE published or changed since the copy was made is not in it until the library is rebuilt. Each source shows the date it was checked. ## How sources are shown Under every answer is a section headed with the number of sources, for example "3 checked sources". Open it and each source is listed by its title, linked to the page it came from, with the publisher, the date it was published or updated where the document gives one, and the date it was checked. Every point in an answer has to rest on one of the passages that were found. A point that does not is dropped before the answer reaches you, and only the sources the answer actually uses are listed. A toolbox talk prints its sources on the sign-on sheet the crew signs, so whoever files it can see where every point came from. ## When the guidance does not cover the question KASQ says so rather than filling the gap with an opinion. When the search finds nothing relevant enough, the answer reads "I could not find enough relevant public evidence" and asks what exact task, equipment, role and site condition you mean. A toolbox talk on a topic the checked sources do not cover is refused, not written. Where the guidance gives no number, KASQ says so rather than estimating one. See [what KASQ will not do](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/what-kasq-will-not-do.md). ## Who writes the answer The passages are searched for on KASQ's own server. An external AI provider (OpenAI) helps plan the search from your question, writes the answer from the passages found, and checks the draft against them. What you ask and what KASQ answers are handled as described in [security and privacy](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/security-and-privacy.md). ## Licence and independence KASQ is an APPSTAR LTD product, not affiliated with the Health and Safety Executive. Guidance is quoted under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and the app carries HSE's requested attribution: > Contains public sector information published by the Health and Safety Executive and licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. An answer is a starting point with its source under it. Your site rules, your RAMS, your permits and a competent person come first. --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-advisor # Site advisor Ask a site safety question in plain English, the way you would ask the advisor who visits once a fortnight — and get the answer now, from checked GB guidance, with the source named. - Its page on this site: [Site advisor](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-advisor) - In the app: [open Site advisor](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=advisor) ## In the office Type the question as it comes up: a scaffold tag, a permit, an excavation, a lifting plan, what the regulations actually say. KASQ answers from a library of HSE guidance — HSG, L-series, INDG, CIS sheets and HSE's own site pages — and shows you which document each point came from. When the checked guidance does not cover the question, it says so rather than filling the gap with an opinion. ## On site On a phone, at the work area, when the question is 'can we do this like that?' and the paperwork is in the cabin. ## What it never does It never decides for you. An answer is a starting point with its source under it — the decision, and the signature, stay with the competent person on site. It never invents a figure. Where the guidance gives no number, KASQ says so rather than estimating one. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-advisor) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/toolbox-talks # Toolbox talks Name the task — the whole task, 'welding from a scaffold', not just the place — and get a talk written from checked GB guidance, with the sources printed on the sheet the crew signs. - Its page on this site: [Toolbox talks](https://kasq.uk/tools/toolbox-talks) - In the app: [open Toolbox talks](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=tbt) ## In the office Name the task. If you want, add a line on what is going on — who, what kit, where; leave it out and you get the general talk. KASQ writes the talk from checked GB guidance and, when it has nothing checked on that topic, says so instead of writing one. What comes back is yours to shape: put any point right in your own words, add a site photograph, add your logo, the company, who delivers it and when. Tick the crew's languages — Polish, Romanian, Russian, Lithuanian, Bulgarian — and type how many people will sign. You read and edit the English page; the other languages and a sign-on sheet with a line per person appear in the file you print. ## On site The talk is given by a person, to a crew, and they sign the sheet in front of them. The sources the talk was written from are printed on that sheet, so whoever files it can see where every point came from. ## What it never does It never delivers the talk and never records who was there. A signed sheet is a person's word that they stood there and said it. It never pads a talk: a topic the checked sources do not cover is refused, not filled in. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/toolbox-talks) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/rams-review # RAMS review Drop in a risk assessment and method statement and read, in minutes, where it is thin — before the main contractor's HSE manager reads it for you. - Its page on this site: [RAMS review](https://kasq.uk/tools/rams-review) - In the app: [open RAMS review](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=rams) ## In the office Upload the RAMS as a PDF or a Word file. KASQ reads it and asks the twelve questions a reviewer asks — is the task specific (what, where, when); is supervision named; is the method a sequence, not a list; do the hazards match the task; do the controls follow the hierarchy rather than PPE first; is there a rescue plan for work at height; are substances covered by COSHH; do plant and equipment have inspection or certification; are emergency arrangements there (first aid, fire, escalation); is PPE specified for the task; are monitoring and review arranged; and how is the workforce briefed and signed on. Every finding quotes the passage it is about, so you can go straight to the line and fix it. ## On site The corrected RAMS is what goes to the main contractor and what the supervisor briefs from. The review itself stays in the office. ## What it never does KASQ does not decide whether the RAMS is acceptable — that is your judgement and your signature. This shortens the read; it does not replace the competent person doing it. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/rams-review) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/cpp-compatibility # CPP compatibility The main contractor's pack asks for things your RAMS has to answer. KASQ reads both and lists, point by point, what is covered, what is missing and what conflicts. - Its page on this site: [CPP compatibility](https://kasq.uk/tools/cpp-compatibility) - In the app: [open CPP compatibility](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=crosscheck) ## In the office Upload the main contractor's construction phase plan and your RAMS. KASQ reads the pack and lists what it requires of your RAMS, then reads your RAMS and answers each point — covered, partly covered, missing, or in conflict — quoting the pack's passage and the RAMS passage it found, or saying that none was found. Rules that are not about your task are set aside and named, and so is anything it could not check, every time. ## On site What you take to site is a RAMS you have checked against the pack point by point, and a list of the points you chose to answer differently. ## What it never does It never approves a RAMS. That is a competent person's judgement and signature; this shortens the read, it does not replace it. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/cpp-compatibility) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/coshh-assessment # COSHH assessment Drop in the product's own safety data sheet. KASQ reads it, places the product in HSE's hazard group, and builds the assessment around the task you describe. - Its page on this site: [COSHH assessment](https://kasq.uk/tools/coshh-assessment) - In the app: [open COSHH assessment](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=coshh) ## In the office KASQ reads the parts of the data sheet that matter — the product, its composition, the hazards, the exposure controls and the physical properties — and checks every hazard code it found against the words on the sheet; a code it cannot find there stops the read. From those codes it puts the product in HSE's hazard group and, with how much you use and how dusty or volatile it is, works out the control approach exactly as the COSHH essentials tables do — a look-up, not an opinion, and the more cautious cell where the tables disagree. Then you add the task: what is being done, where, by whom, how often and for how long, what controls are already there, and who is assessing. The sheet lists each constituent with its GB workplace exposure limit from EH40 where one is listed. ## On site The assessment is printed, in English, and kept where the product is used, with the data sheet beside it. It carries a line for the assessor and a line for the competent person who reviews and approves it — work starts after that signature, not before. ## What it never does It never replaces the safety data sheet and never signs the assessment off. A data sheet describes a substance; an assessment describes your job, and the task you type is all KASQ knows about your site. It does not measure anybody's exposure and does not choose a respirator. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/coshh-assessment) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/havs-calculator # Hand-arm vibration Add the site's vibrating tools, get each one's daily trigger time on HSE's points, and give the crew a board they can scan to log their day. - Its page on this site: [Hand-arm vibration](https://kasq.uk/tools/havs-calculator) - In the app: [open Hand-arm vibration](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=havs) ## In the office Add the site's vibrating tools — from each tool's own manual, where KASQ reads the declared vibration figure and checks it, or typed in by hand. It works out how long each may run in one person's hands in a day using HSE's points system, rounding points up, never down. Type the site's name and the email the records should come back to, then print two things: a board for the wall with a QR code on it, and a weekly record card, one per worker. ## On site A worker scans the code and the page opens on their phone with those tools already on it, in English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian or Bulgarian. They tap what they used and for how long; the page adds up their points and tells them where they stand against the action value and the limit. One tap sends the day, as a one-page sheet in English, from their own phone to the address printed on the board. ## What it never does It never measures a worker's actual vibration exposure. It works from the tool's declared figure, and it is not health surveillance. KASQ keeps no copy of what the worker types — the sheet leaves their own phone, by its own mail or messaging app, and never passes through our server. The record is the email that arrives in your office. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/havs-calculator) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/noise-exposure # Noise exposure Noise adds up on energy, not on decibels. Two hours at 91 dB(A), four at 85 and two at 78 is 86.9 dB(A) for the day — above the 85 dB(A) upper action value, where a plain average of the levels would read 'under it'. - Its page on this site: [Noise exposure](https://kasq.uk/tools/noise-exposure) - In the app: [open Noise exposure](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=noise) ## In the office Enter each task, its level and its time. Every entry carries its source — measured on site, or declared by the manufacturer under the Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations 2008 — and that source prints on the record. The picker in each row offers HSE's own published ranges for common site work as starting points; the record marks them estimated until the level is checked on this site. ## On site The record tells you how many decibels the hearing protection has to remove. Where exposure is near the values, HSE expects measurement — this tool tells you when you are there. ## What it never does It does not know what the breaker three metres away adds, or what a shaft does to the sound. A declared figure is measured at the operator in test conditions. It gives unprotected exposure; whether a particular protector brings the ear under the 87 dB(A) limit value is your calculation, with the protector's data. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/noise-exposure) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). ## Questions ### How is daily noise exposure calculated? Each task's contribution is 10·log10(10^(L/10) × T/8h), where L is the level at the ear in dB(A) and T the time exposed. The day is 10·log10 of the sum of 10^(contribution/10) — energy added, then turned back into decibels. This is the arithmetic in HSE's own noise exposure calculator. ### What are the action values under the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005? The lower exposure action value is 80 dB(A): hearing protection must be made available on request and workers given information and training. The upper exposure action value is 85 dB(A): noise must be reduced so far as is reasonably practicable, hearing protection must be worn and the area marked as a hearing protection zone. The exposure limit value is 87 dB(A), measured at the ear with hearing protection taken into account. ### What are HSE's points? HSE's points system makes the energy sum easy to do by hand: 100 points is a full shift at 85 dB(A), the scale doubles every 3 dB, and points from different tasks simply add up. ### Which hearing protection should be chosen? HSE's guide matches the noise level of the task to the protector's Single Number Rating (SNR): roughly 20 or less for 85–90 dB(A), 20 to 30 for 90–95, 25 to 35 for 95–100, 30 or more for 100–105. The protector is chosen for the noisiest task, not for the day's average, and one that puts the ear below 70 dB over-protects. ### Does this replace a noise assessment? No. It works from the levels you enter — measured, declared by the manufacturer or estimated from HSE's typical ranges — and says which. Where exposure is near the action values, HSE expects measurement on the site itself. --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/dropped-object-risk # Dropped object risk Any tool, fitting or component that could fall on somebody — when writing a RAMS, planning a lift, or standing under work at height and seeing no tethers on the tools. - Its page on this site: [Dropped object risk](https://kasq.uk/tools/dropped-object-risk) - In the app: [open Dropped object risk](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=drops) ## In the office Type what the thing weighs and how far it could fall — or drag a finger across the chart and watch the numbers move. KASQ gives you the DROPS verdict for a person underneath: slight, minor, major or fatality, from the published DROPS Calculator, transcribed line for line and checked against its own worked examples. Beside it, the things that make a crew look up: how fast it arrives, and what it hits like. Pin a result, change the weight or the height, and see the two side by side. Read it in six languages and download the report as a PDF. ## On site The suggested exclusion radius is a site rule of thumb — drop height ÷ 3, four metres minimum, rounded up to the half metre a worker can pace out. Confirm it against your own RAMS before marking out a barrier. ## What it never does It never allows for the object: no wind, no air resistance, no shape, no material — the speed is a release from rest under gravity alone, so drag makes the real figure lower. It is not the DROPS bounce-zone tool. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/dropped-object-risk) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/take-5-powra # Take 5 / POWRA A point-of-work risk assessment the crew can actually read — in the language they speak — written at the work area, not at a desk before the shift. - Its page on this site: [Take 5 / POWRA](https://kasq.uk/tools/take-5-powra) - In the app: [open Take 5 / POWRA](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=take5) ## In the office Pick the site and the language its crew actually speaks: one sheet, one language — English, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Lithuanian or Bulgarian. Shape the pad: which columns the table carries, whether sixteen or twenty people sign, your logo, and the hazard checklist on the back — type over any line to change it. The hazards, the controls and the signatures stay blank on purpose. ## On site The steps, the hazards, the controls and every signature are written by the people who walked the area, at the area. If the site asks for it, a fifth step prints: scan the code and send one photograph of the work area before the work starts. At the end of the shift the same code sends both sides of the finished sheet to the office. ## What it never does It never fills in the sheet and never checks who did. The code on the paper is a request, not a lock. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/take-5-powra) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/kit-check # Kit check Every sling, shackle and harness has a report somewhere in the cabin. Put them in one register the crew can check from a phone against the number on the kit. - Its page on this site: [Kit check](https://kasq.uk/tools/kit-check) - In the app: [open Kit check](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=kit) ## In the office Drop in the reports of thorough examination — PDFs, photographs of the labels on the kit itself, or the register you already keep in Excel. KASQ reads each page and shows you every row with the page it came from; nothing is published until you have looked. Publish, and you get a board for the wall with a QR code on it, a live register you can search, the certificates on file behind every item, and a copy as Excel. Thirty days before an examination runs out, again at fourteen, and on the day, one email per register names the items. ## On site A worker scans the board, types the number on the equipment, and reads whether it is in date — in English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian or Bulgarian — with the examiner's page under it. No account, no sign-in. If something looks wrong they say so, with a photograph. Only the office takes a thing out of service — and from that moment every phone on site reads OUT OF SERVICE — DO NOT USE. ## What it never does It never examines anything. A thorough examination is a competent person's work; this carries the report to the person standing next to the kit. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/kit-check) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-register # Site register One register per site: who is on it, what tickets they hold, when each runs out — and the training matrix ready to hand to the auditor or the main contractor. - Its page on this site: [Site register](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-register) - In the app: [open Site register](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=strikes) ## In the office Put the crew on it by hand or upload the list you already have — Excel, CSV, Word or PDF. Then drop each person's certificates on their card, a folder at a time: KASQ reads the course and the expiry date and shows you what it read; fix anything it got wrong. Sixty days before a ticket runs out it turns amber; when it runs out, red. The folder comes out whenever you want it: a training matrix as Excel, with the certificates themselves beside it. Strikes go in only if you tick the box that time; it is never ticked for you. ## On site Print the code and hang it in the cabin. The crew scans it and reads the 3 Strikes board in their own language — what the rules are and where they stand. A site code, if you turn one on, keeps the board to the people you give it to. ## What it never does A cell in a spreadsheet is a note about a certificate, not the certificate: KASQ shows the courses a training matrix carries but does not write them in. It never confirms a card with the scheme that issued it — 'read' and 'confirmed' are never the same word. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-register) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-audit # Site audit Walk the site with your phone. Say what you see, photograph it, move on. The report writes itself as you go and leaves as a PDF before you leave the gate. - Its page on this site: [Site audit](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-audit) - In the app: [open Site audit](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=audit) ## In the office Afterwards, the walk is a report: every item with its place, its photograph and its words, as a PDF to share with the site manager and to file, and a fix list with owners and dates. Look at it before it leaves. The moment it does — a PDF, a read-only link or a fix link — the walk is issued and its words are frozen; until then you may correct a place or a line, or strike an item out. After that nothing is deleted: an item raised in error is voided with a reason and keeps its number. ## On site On the phone: name the place, take the photograph, say or type what you found — dictated in any language, the transcript lands in the box for you to read and correct. Say what it is: good practice, an observation, an action with an owner and a date, or stop. The screen and the fix list read in English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian or Bulgarian; the report itself is always in English, one document for everyone who receives it. ## What it never does It never decides what you saw. The finding, its severity and what should be done about it are the auditor's words, not KASQ's. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-audit) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-signs # Site signs Pick the sign, type the wording, add the logo, print. The templates use the standard safety-sign shapes and colours from HSE's L64; the wording, the size and where it goes are yours to check. - Its page on this site: [Site signs](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-signs) - In the app: [open Site signs](https://app.kasq.uk/v3/#tool=signs) ## In the office Pick one of 85 signs — prohibition, warning, mandatory, escape and first aid, fire, and the CLP chemical diamonds — or search them by what you need: hard hat, forklift, acid. Type the wording, or take one of the phrases sites actually buy; add a headline and your logo; choose A4 or A3. Put several on one plate for a site board. The first aid poster takes your first aiders — name, phone, photograph. One click gives you a PDF laid out exactly as the preview, with cutting guides for laminating. ## On site The sign goes on the fence, the door or the cabinet; the board at the gate; the poster where the first aid kit is. ## What it never does It never checks your wording. The right sign, the right place and the right control are your decisions. Nothing leaves your browser: the logo, the photographs and the finished PDF are made on your computer and never sent to us. ## What it counts What one run counts against a plan's monthly questions is on [the tool's page](https://kasq.uk/tools/site-signs) and in the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md), both written from the same table as the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/getting-started # Getting started 1. Go to [Start free](https://app.kasq.uk/signin) and sign in with your email address and a six-digit code, or with Google or Microsoft. There is no separate sign-up form: the first time you sign in, your account is made. If you were given an invite code, [Signing in](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/sign-in.md) says where it goes. 2. You start on the Free plan: no card, no expiry. [Plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md) says what each plan includes. 3. Pick a tool. Inside the app every tool carries a card — "What this does — and what it never does" — with the same words as its page on this site. The [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md) lists them all. 4. Setting up a site — a register of the crew and their tickets, a kit register the crew can scan, the first walk — is in [site onboarding](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/site-onboarding.md). ## What the crew need Nothing to install and no account of their own. What they use — the HAVS board, the kit register, the site register's board, the Take 5 pad — is printed with a QR code, and they scan it with their own phone. The crew's pages read in English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian. ## Before you rely on it Everything KASQ writes is a starting point with its source under it. Read it, put right anything that is wrong for your site, and let the competent person sign — KASQ never signs anything off. ## Your account The [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account) shows how the account was made, your plan and what is left of the month, and **Payments and invoices** once you are paying. It lets you sign out on this device or on all devices, download what the account holds, and delete the account when you ask it to. On Trade and Company it is also where you add colleagues to the plan: see [plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md#can-colleagues-share-my-plan). What is kept, and for how long, is in the [privacy notice](https://kasq.uk/privacy). ## Help Email [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/sign-in # Signing in KASQ has no passwords, so there is no password to forget, reset or leak. [Start free](https://app.kasq.uk/signin) and Log in open the same page: there is no separate sign-up form, and the first time you sign in your account is made. You sign in with your email address, with Google or Microsoft, or with an invite code if you were given one. ## With your email address This is the way in that always exists. Type your email address and KASQ sends you a six-digit code. Type the code back and you are in. - A code works for 10 minutes. - Five wrong tries and the code stops working; ask for a new one. - One address is sent at most five codes an hour. It is a code rather than a link on purpose: a code still works when the email arrives on a different device from the one you are signing in on, which on a site it usually does. ## With Google or Microsoft Press **Continue with Google** or **Continue with Microsoft** on the sign-in page. From the provider KASQ takes your email address and nothing else — no contacts, no calendar, no files. ## With an invite code If you were given an invite code — it looks like `KASQ-XXXX-XXXX` — there are two places it goes: - **With your email address.** When the page shows a box for an invite code under the address, type the code there as well. It is used the first time an address is seen, to make its account, and ignored after that. - **On its own.** **Use an invite code instead** signs you in with the code alone, with no account and no email address behind it. Whether the page shows the invite-code box at all depends on how sign-in is set up at the time. If you have no code and the page does not ask for one, you do not need one. ## When the code does not arrive - Check the spam or junk folder. - Check the address you typed: the page answers the same way for every address, so it cannot tell you whether one has an account. - Wait a minute and ask for a new code, remembering the limit of five an hour. If it still does not come, email [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk). ## Signing out The [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account) signs you out on this device, or on all your devices at once. --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing # Plans and pricing Every price is public, on the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans). The list below is written from the same table. - **Free** — £0, no card: 30 questions a month (up to 15 a day); 1 person; 2 site audits started a month; up to 5 people on the site register; toolbox talks in English. - **Trade** — £29 a month, or £290 a year: 500 questions a month (up to 100 a day); 3 people; site audits without limit; up to 150 people on the site register; toolbox talks in the crew's languages; your logo on every PDF. - **Company** — £99 a month, or £990 a year: 1500 questions a month (up to 300 a day); 10 people; site audits without limit; up to 1500 people on the site register; toolbox talks in the crew's languages; your logo on every PDF. ## Frequently asked ### What is a "question"? A question is counted only when KASQ does work for you — an answer, a document review, a cross-check. Tools count differently, and many count nothing at all: the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md) says what one run of each counts. ### When does the count start again? On the 1st of each month. Unused questions do not roll over. Both the month and the day are counted in UTC: the day starts again at midnight UTC. ### Why is there a daily number as well? So that everything a plan includes can be used, just not all at once: a day is capped at a share of the month, and the month stays within reach. ### What happens when I run out? When the month is spent, KASQ tells you so and the date it starts again. When only the day is spent, it tells you that nothing is wrong and nothing is lost, that it starts again at midnight UTC, and that the rest of your month is still there. A run that fails on our side is not counted. ### Can colleagues share my plan? On Trade and Company, yes, up to the number of people the plan includes. The person who pays adds colleagues in the People section of the [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account): type the colleague's email address and press **Invite**. There is no invitation to accept — the colleague signs in with their own email address, and their questions come out of the plan's monthly number. An address can be on only one company's plan at a time, and **Remove** frees the place. The crew on site need no account at all: see [getting started](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/getting-started.md#what-the-crew-need). ### Is the Free plan a trial? No. Free stays free: no card, and no trial that turns into a bill. ### Which plan has the CPP compatibility check? It is a Company plan tool. On Free and Trade you can try it once — your RAMS against the construction phase plan — and after that it is Company's. ### How many site audits can I run? On Free, two walks started a month; on the paid plans, without limit. A walk spends none of the month's questions. ### Is VAT added? No. APPSTAR LTD is not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. Prices are in pounds sterling. ### How do I pay? Payments are taken by Stripe; card details go to Stripe and never to KASQ. Choose a paid plan on the [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans) and it takes you to Stripe's checkout. If you are not signed in, you sign in first and come back to the plans page to choose it. Once you are paying, the account page has **Payments and invoices**. ### How do I cancel? In Stripe's own portal, where your invoices are, reached from your [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account). Your plan keeps running to the end of the period you have already paid for; part of a month or a year is not refunded, and you are not charged again after you cancel. ### What happens to my records if I stop paying? They do not go when the plan does. Downgrading never locks a record: reading stays whole, and only adding past the new plan's numbers is refused. The [plans page](https://kasq.uk/plans) sets out how long removed records are kept. ### What will you not do with my data? We do not sell your data, we do not use your documents or photographs to train AI models, and there are no advertising or analytics companies in this product. See [security and privacy](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/security-and-privacy.md). ### Anything else? Email [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/site-onboarding # Site onboarding KASQ does not have one "site" record that every tool hangs off. Each tool keeps its own register, walk or board, named after the site, and each board has its own QR code. You can run as many sites as you like; the plan sets how many workers the registers hold, how many walks you start on Free, and how much space your photographs and certificates take. See [plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md). A typical order for a new site: ## 1. Start the site register Open the [Site register](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-register.md) and press **＋ New register**. The one field is **Company or site** — for example "Fairview Groundworks — Plot 4". Press **Start the register**. You keep one register per site. ## 2. Add the crew - Type or paste the crew, one person a line: `Name; position` (the position is optional), and press **Add crew**. - Or upload the list you already have — Excel, CSV, Word or PDF. The names appear for you to check first. A name already on the register is skipped. The number of workers across all your registers is capped by your plan; when the register is full, KASQ says so, and removing somebody who has left the site frees the place. ## 3. Add their certificates Drop each person's certificates on their card, as PDFs or photographs. KASQ reads the course and the expiry date and shows you what it read before anything is written; fix anything it got wrong. Reading a certificate costs no questions: it is read on KASQ's own server, and no AI model sees it. Sixty days before a ticket runs out it turns amber; once it has run out, red. The training matrix comes out as Excel whenever you want it, with the certificates beside it. KASQ never confirms a card with the scheme that issued it: "read" and "confirmed" are never the same word. ## 4. Put the register's board up Print the board (an A4 PDF) and hang it in the cabin. The crew scan the code and read the 3 Strikes board in their own language: what the rules are and where they stand. Certificates and evidence photographs stay with the office. Whoever holds the code can read the board, so **New code** replaces it and the old one stops working when you need it to. ## 5. Publish the Kit check register Open [Kit check](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/kit-check.md). Drop in the reports of thorough examination — PDFs, photographs of the labels on the kit, or the register you keep in Excel — and check what KASQ read. Nothing is published until you have looked. Name the register after the site and publish it. You get a board to put up where the kit is kept — a store, a container, a gate — with a QR code on it. Reminder emails go out thirty days before an examination runs out, again at fourteen, and on the day. ## 6. What a worker sees A worker opens a board by scanning it, on their own phone. - **Kit check:** the worker types the number on the equipment and reads whether it is in date, with the examiner's page under it. If something looks wrong they report it, with a photograph if they like. Only the office takes a thing out of service, and from then on every phone reads OUT OF SERVICE — DO NOT USE. - **Site register:** the 3 Strikes board, in the crew's language. - **Hand-arm vibration:** the tools on the board; see [Hand-arm vibration](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/havs-calculator.md). - **Take 5:** the code on the printed sheet; see [Take 5 / POWRA](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/take-5-powra.md). **A site code**, if you turn one on for Kit check, makes the worker's page ask for the code first ("This site asks for a code"). KASQ never prints the code on the board; you hand it out however suits you — at induction, on the permit, on a card in the container. KASQ does not keep an induction record. Use your own induction; KASQ's boards and codes are what you hand over during it. ## 7. The rest of the site's paperwork - **Toolbox talks** for the first week: [Toolbox talks](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/toolbox-talks.md). - **Take 5 pads** in the crew's language: [Take 5 / POWRA](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/take-5-powra.md). The site's set-up is kept in your browser. - **Signs** for the fence, the doors and the gate: [Site signs](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-signs.md). - **The first walk**: [Site audit](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/site-audit.md). Each walk carries the site's name, and optionally a project and a reference. - **RAMS** from subcontractors: [RAMS review](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/rams-review.md), and [CPP compatibility](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/cpp-compatibility.md) against the construction phase plan. - **COSHH** for the products on site: [COSHH assessment](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/coshh-assessment.md). ## Languages on the crew's pages The office works in English. The crew's pages speak English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian — and Russian too on toolbox talks and Take 5. --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/security-and-privacy # Security and privacy The binding text is the [privacy notice](https://kasq.uk/privacy), the same notice the app shows under your account. This page is a guide to it. Every quoted paragraph below is copied word for word from version 6 of the notice (30 September 2026); where this page and the notice differ, the notice is right. ## Who is responsible > KASQ is run by APPSTAR LTD (company number 17261860), 86 South Norwood Hill, London SE25 6AQ — the company responsible for your data under UK data protection law (the controller). Reach us at hello@kasq.uk. Two kinds of information pass through KASQ. Your own — your email address, what you ask, which tools you used — is controlled by APPSTAR LTD. Your company's records — the workers on a site register, their certificates, audit photographs, names on a Take 5 — are controlled by your company, and KASQ holds them for it as processor. > We do not sell anything to anybody. We do not use your data, your documents or your photographs to train AI models. There are no advertising or analytics companies in this product. ## Where it lives, and who else handles it > One server in Falkenstein, Germany, rented from Hetzner, and its backups on Hetzner storage in Finland. > The companies we hand any of this to, in full, and what each of them gets. Hetzner: everything on the server and in the backups, because the machine and the storage are theirs. OpenAI: what you ask, what you type into the AI tools, the text of a document you upload for a check, the pages of a certificate you ask Kit check to read, and a voice note to turn into text — to work out the answer. Resend: your email address and the words of the three emails above. Stripe: the card and billing details you type on its page, your email address, and the account number that joins a payment to your KASQ account. Cloudflare: every connection to KASQ passes through it, and it runs the bot check on sign-in. Google: the mailbox behind hello@kasq.uk, so an email you send us sits there. Google or Microsoft again, only if you choose to sign in with them: you sign in on their page, and they tell us your email address. Each of them runs on its own suppliers, named in their own notices. ## Signing in > An email address and six digits, or one of the sign-in providers offered on the sign-in page (today Google and Microsoft). From a provider we take your email address and nothing else — no contacts, no calendar, no files. The six digits live in memory for ten minutes and are never written down. Sign-in is protected by Cloudflare's bot check. If you sign in with Google or Microsoft, that company handles your data for sign-in too, and version 6 of the notice names both of them in its list of who else handles it: > Google or Microsoft again, only if you choose to sign in with them: you sign in on their page, and they tell us your email address. [Signing in](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/sign-in.md) has the details, including invite codes. ## Documents you upload, and the AI provider > Documents you upload for a RAMS review, a COSHH assessment or a CPP check are different. They travel over an encrypted connection and, unless you have asked us to keep your RAMS (below), are never stored — not even their filenames — and are deleted as soon as the check finishes. That holds for a safety data sheet even when you save the assessment made from it: the sheet itself goes, and what stays is what we read out of it (see KEEPING YOUR COSHH ASSESSMENTS). Their TEXT is read by an external AI provider: that is how the check is done. The provider processes that text in the United States; the transfer is covered by standard contractual clauses with the UK addendum in our agreement with them — write to us for a copy of those safeguards. Email addresses, phone numbers and National Insurance numbers are stripped automatically before that happens. Names are not — removing them reliably is harder than a pattern match, and we would rather say so. Take out any names you would rather not send. Keeping your RAMS, your toolbox talks and your COSHH assessments each has its own section in the notice. Each is something you accept before anything is kept, and anything you keep can be taken off the shelf again. ## How long things are kept The notice sets out every record. Among them: - Questions to the site advisor and its answers: through the beta, and up to 90 days after it ends. - The record of which tools you opened and used: 24 months. - A site audit or a RAMS you have removed from your list: 6 years on a paid plan, 12 months on Free, from the day you remove it. - Kit check registers and the Site register: what you put in them is kept while you keep it there. - Documents uploaded for a check, and safety data sheets: not stored, unless you keep your RAMS. - Voice recordings for dictation: never written to disk; only the words you choose to send are kept. - Take 5, site signs, vibration and noise set-up: in your browser only. > An audit you have REMOVED FROM YOUR LIST is kept 6 years on a paid plan and 12 months on Free. The clock starts on the day you remove it, never on the day you sent the report, and a walk still on your list is not deleted however old it is. ## Security > Connections are encrypted, and backups are encrypted before they leave the server — kept on a rolling year: 14 daily, 8 weekly, 12 monthly. We do not claim the server's own disk is encrypted, because today it is not; that needs the machine rebuilt, and until it is done we will not say otherwise. - A photograph taken through KASQ is stripped of its embedded camera data — including the location the phone recorded — before it is stored. - Card details go to Stripe and never to KASQ. ## Closing your account > Deleting your account ends every session it has, and takes your email address off our disk. The clean-up that removes the lines is run by hand, so allow a few days for the last of it. When you delete the account, the deletion screen counts the company records the account holds and asks whether they go with the account or stay. KASQ does not choose for you. ## Your rights > Ask for a copy of what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, have its use restricted or object to it, or take a copy elsewhere — email hello@kasq.uk and we will act on it. If you think we have handled your data badly you have a right to complain to us — write to hello@kasq.uk and we will answer — and you have a separate right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk. You do not have to come to us first. Your [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account) also has **Download my data**. --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/help/faq # FAQ and troubleshooting ## About KASQ ### What is KASQ? Health and safety software for construction sites in Great Britain, in a browser: the site advisor, toolbox talks in the crew's language, RAMS review, COSHH, hand-arm vibration, noise, dropped objects, Take 5, Kit check, the Site register, site audits and site signs. It is an APPSTAR LTD product. See [what KASQ is](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/overview.md). ### Is KASQ part of HSE? No. KASQ is not affiliated with the Health and Safety Executive. It answers from official HSE guidance, quoted under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and shows the source on every answer. See [HSE guidance search](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/hse-guidance-search.md). ### Does KASQ sign off or approve anything? No. No tool approves a RAMS, signs off a COSHH assessment or decides what an auditor saw. See [what KASQ will not do](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/what-kasq-will-not-do.md). ## Cost ### Is it free? The Free plan is free for good: no card and no expiry. Every plan, its price and its monthly questions are on [plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md). ### Is VAT added? No. APPSTAR LTD is not VAT registered, so the price you see is the price you pay. ### What is a "question"? The unit a plan counts. Only work a model does for you is counted, and each tool counts differently; the [tools overview](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/tools.md) says what one run of each counts. Tools that call no model spend nothing. ### I have run out of questions. If the month is spent, the count starts again on the 1st of the month (UTC). If only today's share is spent, nothing is wrong and nothing is lost: it starts again at midnight UTC and the rest of your month is still there. A run that failed on our side is not counted. ### How do I cancel? In Stripe's portal, linked as **Payments and invoices** on your [account page](https://app.kasq.uk/account). The plan runs to the end of the period you have paid for, and your records stay. ## Signing in ### Which ways can I sign in? With your email address and a six-digit code, with Google or Microsoft, or with an invite code if you were given one. See [signing in](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/sign-in.md). ### My six digits do not work. - "Not right — check the six digits." — the code was mistyped; the message says how many tries are left. - "That code has run out. Ask for a new one." — a code lasts ten minutes. - "Too many wrong tries. Ask for a new code." — after five wrong tries the code stops working. - "Too many attempts — wait a minute." — wait, then try again. A code works once only. If the email has not arrived, check the address you typed; **Use a different address** starts again. ### "We could not confirm you are a person." The sign-in page's bot check did not pass. Wait a moment and try again. ### "That code was not recognised." That message is for invite codes, not for the six digits sent by email. Check the invite code, or sign in with your email address, Google or Microsoft instead. ## On site ### Do the crew need accounts? No. What the crew use is printed with a QR code and opens on their own phone. See [getting started](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/getting-started.md#what-the-crew-need). ### Which languages do the crew's pages speak? English, Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian and Bulgarian — and Russian too on toolbox talks and Take 5. The office works in English. On Free, toolbox talks and sign-on sheets are in English; the crew's languages are part of the paid plans. ### "Your plan's register is full." The Site register's number of workers is set by your plan, across all your registers; [plans and pricing](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/plans-and-pricing.md) lists it. Remove somebody who has left the site, or move to a bigger plan. ### A worker reported a fault on a piece of kit. The report lands with the office. Reporting does not take the kit out of service; only the office does that, and from then on every phone reads OUT OF SERVICE — DO NOT USE. ## Answers and documents ### Where do the site advisor's answers come from? From official HSE guidance, with the source shown on every answer. When the guidance does not cover the question, KASQ says so. See [HSE guidance search](https://kasq.uk/docs/product/hse-guidance-search.md). ### KASQ said it could not find enough evidence. The question may be too general. Say the exact task, the equipment, who is doing it and the site conditions, and ask again. ### Does KASQ keep my documents? Documents uploaded for a RAMS review, a COSHH assessment or a CPP check are not stored unless you have asked KASQ to keep your RAMS; a safety data sheet goes as soon as it has been read. See [security and privacy](https://kasq.uk/docs/help/security-and-privacy.md). ### Are my documents used to train AI? No. KASQ does not use your data, your documents or your photographs to train AI models. ## Anything else Write to [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk). --- Source: https://kasq.uk/docs/api/overview # API reference KASQ does not offer a public API yet. There are no API keys to request and no endpoints to call; the addresses the app uses in the browser are internal to it and may change without notice. When a public API is published, its reference will be here, and it will be listed in [llms.txt](https://kasq.uk/llms.txt). To use KASQ today, [start free](https://app.kasq.uk/signin) in the browser. To tell us what you would use an API for, email [hello@kasq.uk](mailto:hello@kasq.uk).