The biggest addition since temporary works, built around how plant actually moves on and off a site.
What's new
- Check a machine in by scanning it. Every plant item can carry a QR sticker. The operator scans it on their own phone, with no app and no account, and sees whether the machine is on hire, paused or off-hired, who it's hired from, and what checks are due before it can be used.
- Stop an uncertified machine before it's used. Daily pre-use checks and statutory inspections roll up into a single status on the plant board and register. If a machine must not be used, that appears on the operator's screen at the moment they scan it, not in a register nobody opens.
- Statutory certificates live with the machine. Capture a LOLER or thorough examination certificate and PlanOps seeds the inspection schedule from it. Certificate photos go into the documents pipeline, so they're searchable and shareable alongside everything else rather than sitting in someone's camera roll.
- Site authorisation that someone actually reviews. Authorising plant for site now runs as a proper review: submitted, then authorised or rejected by a manager, with the request prefilled from the plant registry so nobody retypes serial numbers. Operators can correct the hire company on the spot and the correction writes back.
- Off-hire without loose ends. Off-hiring a machine from its item or the status board closes its check schedules, stops the escalations and updates its authorisation. A machine that left site last month stops generating overdue checks.
- Deadlines that move with the programme. RAMS, packages and temporary works now derive their due dates from the programme. The date is stated on the page and in the request the subcontractor receives, with an explanation of where it came from, so a programme change doesn't leave a stale deadline behind.
- Shared documents read properly without an account. A document you share now opens in a real viewer, with section navigation, headings you can link to, and a PDF download on demand. Verifying yourself sticks through a page refresh. Reviewers outside your organisation stop asking you to email a copy.
- ITPs have their own place in the workspace. Inspection and Test Plans are now their own category, with consistent references and a proper create wizard, instead of sharing a shelf with everything else.
- RFIs record what's affected. An RFI carries its question as a field of its own and lets you tag more than one impact, rather than forcing everything into a single priority label.
- Reviews close out cleanly. When a reviewer requests changes, their marked-up attachment now shows on the submitter's screen, and resubmitting moves the item on without a page reload. Notify lists prefill with the people already involved, and you choose from project members instead of pasting in ids.
Why it matters
Plant is where the paperwork and the site drift apart fastest. A certificate expires, a machine gets used anyway, and nobody finds out until an inspector asks or something goes wrong. Putting the check at the point of use, on the machine, means the gap shows up while it's still a phone call rather than a report.
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