What using Valify actually looks like.

The subcontractor pack that arrives on Friday afternoon

Six RAMS documents land at once, from four different subcontractors, all needed before work starts Monday. Each is written to a different template, and two are clearly adapted from a previous job.

Without Valify

Someone reads all six. Realistically that is most of a day, and by document four the reader is skimming — which is exactly where a missed control measure gets through. The two adapted documents are the highest risk, because they look complete: the format is right, the sections are all present, and the content refers to a site that is not this one.

With Valify

All six are uploaded and reviewed in under half an hour of elapsed time, with each report ranked Critical, Needs Attention, Minor and Done Well. The reader starts with the Critical sections across all six — usually a handful of items — then works down. The reused-template problems surface as cross-document inconsistencies: hazards that no control addresses, plant named in the method but absent from the risk assessment.

The judgement on every flag is still the reviewer’s. What changes is that they start from a list of specific questions instead of a stack of paper.

The document your team already signed off

A RAMS that has been through your normal process — read, queried, revised, approved. Nobody has any reason to think there is anything wrong with it.

Why teams run it anyway

This is the scan that tends to decide whether Valify is worth paying for. A document that has already passed a manual review is the fairest possible test, because there is no benefit of the doubt available: either it finds something real or it does not.

The findings that show up here are rarely dramatic. They are things a careful reader would catch on a good day and miss on a busy one — a muster point that refers to an older site plan, a residual risk score left blank, PPE listed in one section that the hazard it protects against does not mention.

If it finds nothing, that is a useful answer too, and it costs one scan of a free trial to get it.

Monday morning, and the backlog is the job

A team reviewing volume — multiple sites, a steady stream of documents, and a review queue that is never actually empty.

What changes at volume

At 250 documents a month, Growth works out at £9.00 a document — less than 20 minutes of an H&S manager’s time at a £35/hour loaded rate. The comparison that matters is not Valify against nothing; it is Valify against the hours currently spent doing the first read.

Reports download as PDF for the health-and-safety file, or as editable Word on Growth and Enterprise, so findings can be annotated and assigned without retyping. Where a document needs a decision from someone outside your Valify account — a principal contractor, a client’s advisor — the report can be shared as a read-only link that expires rather than emailed as a file that never does.

Every scan is recorded with what it found and when, so the review history is a by-product of doing the work rather than a separate exercise.