Safety software for manufacturing

Manufacturing recorded 18 worker fatalities in Great Britain in 2025/26 – the third highest of any sector, and up from 11 the previous year.

The causes map directly onto the things a safety management system exists to control. Contact with moving machinery remains one of the leading causes of workplace death, alongside being struck by a moving object, and being struck by a moving vehicle. Every one of those is an inspection regime, a risk assessment, and a corrective action that either happened or did not.

The cost of getting it wrong is not only human. Work-related injury and ill health costs Great Britain an estimated £22.9 billion a year, with 40.1 million working days lost. Notify’s health and safety software helps you reduce that exposure – fewer incidents, faster response, and evidence you can produce on demand.

You replace the inspection spreadsheet with a schedule that runs on its own and a record you can’t lose. In manufacturing, staying compliant comes down to proving that equipment got checked, that faults got flagged, and that someone actually dealt with them.

PUWER equipment inspections

PUWER 1998 requires work equipment to be suitable and safe for use, maintained in a safe condition, and inspected so that deterioration is spotted before it causes harm – with records kept to prove it.

With Notify, you can build recurring inspection schedules, get automatic reminders before checks are due, log defects as tracked corrective actions with an owner, and keep the full inspection history in one place.

Machinery safety, guarding, and isolation

Contact with moving machinery is one of the leading causes of workplace death, and the controls that prevent it – guarding, interlocks, isolation and lock-out/tag-out – only work if they are checked and the checks are recorded.

With Notify, you can build scheduled inspection templates so pre-use checks, guard integrity checks, and isolation verification are assigned, completed at the machine, and evidenced.

Manual handling and musculoskeletal risk

Handling, lifting, and carrying are among the largest sources of non-fatal injury in manufacturing, and the resulting musculoskeletal problems are among the biggest causes of lost working days.

With Notify, template-driven manual handling assessments keep the approach consistent across lines and sites, with controls documented, assigned, and tracked to completion rather than filed and forgotten.

Contractor and visitor safety

Manufacturing sites are at their most hazardous when they are not running normally – planned maintenance, shutdowns, and contractors working on equipment they did not commission. That’s also when the least familiar people are on site, so Notify lets contractors and visitors sign risk assessments and method statements digitally and report hazards through the same QR code your employees use – meaning the people least familiar with your site are no longer the people with the least visible safety record.