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AI Document Management for Principal Contractors

Principal contractors carry the heaviest compliance burden under CDM 2015. You are responsible for the construction phase plan, managing health and safety on site, ensuring every subcontractor has adequate RAMS, coordinating emergency procedures, and maintaining a paper trail that demonstrates you have discharged your duties. The volume of documentation is enormous.

The Challenges

• Producing and maintaining the construction phase plan
• Reviewing and approving subcontractor RAMS (often 20-30 per project)
• Coordinating health and safety across multiple subcontractors
• Maintaining the health and safety file for handover to the client
• Demonstrating due diligence if an incident occurs
• Keeping documentation current as the project evolves

How Site Manager AI Helps

Site Manager AI helps principal contractors manage documentation at scale. Generate construction phase plans from project brief inputs, quickly produce standardised RAMS for common activities, create toolbox talks aligned to current site risks, and maintain organised digital records by project. The AI ensures consistency across all documentation while reflecting the specific conditions of each project.