New Compliance Tools for your paperwork all year

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, BS 99001 and National Highways Sector Schemes 12D, 12A/B, 12C, 16, 23, 7 and 8

Know where you stand before you pay for the audit.

Answer questions about your evidence and get a scored readiness report and an action plan, so you can close the gaps before your certification visit. Compliance Tools helps with your toolbox talks, audit findings and documents all year.

Not sure yet? Try the free check: ten questions and no account. Or see the eleven standards.

Looking after several firms? See what SchemeReady does for consultants and assessment bodies.

Readiness Assessment Traffic management firm

Readiness report

Summary page

Example Traffic Services Ltd (fictional)

Surveillance visit in 40 days. Two site visits recorded. Written from NHSS 12D Issue 5 (July 2025).

Gaps to close

Section scores in the sample report
SectionScoreBand
A: Certificate, scope and CertCheck54.2Gaps to close
D: Vehicles, plant, signals and equipment38.1Not ready

Two stop items and one critical gap. Seven actions in the two-week plan. Confidence: low (one answer to verify before the visit).

A score and a band for each standard you pick, and a plan to close the gaps.

Compliance Tools Engineering firm

Write up an internal audit

Example Engineering Ltd (fictional)

Internal audit report

Office audit of section D. Audit on 2 October 2026 by the quality manager.

2 findings: 1 nonconformity and 1 observation.

  1. Nonconformity Calibration of measuring equipmentTwo micrometers on the inspection bench have no calibration date, on them or in the register.
  2. Observation Servicing of plantThe press brake's last service is recorded, but not when the next one is due.

Actions

  • Calibrate both micrometers and add them to the register.Quality manager, 16 Oct 2026

Turn an office check into an audit report, with its findings and actions.

Readiness Assessment Engineering firm

Check my answers

Your latest check

It reads your answers and notes only. It doesn't look at your records, isn't an audit, and doesn't change your score or band.

D-16: Is each measuring item uniquely identified, calibrated or verified at a set interval against a recognised standard, and is its status visible to the person about to use it?

Medium The answer claims more than the note shows

Your answer: Yes, evidence to hand. Your note: Everything is calibrated every year.

The note doesn't say how each item is identified, or where its calibration status is shown.

An assessor is likely to ask: Show me one of your gauges and its calibration record.

See where an assessor is likely to ask for more, free with every assessment.

Compliance Tools Engineering firm

Make a toolbox talk

Example Engineering Ltd (fictional)

Toolbox talk: Waste and skips

Remember

  • Put each kind of waste in the skip labelled for it.
  • Keep oil, paint and aerosols out of the general skip.
  • Keep the paperwork for every skip that leaves.

A five or ten minute talk on one of your own risks, with a sign-in sheet.

Readiness Assessment Traffic management firm

Practise the audit

The assessor asks

How do you know a new operative's cards are in date before their first shift?

Your answer

Our supervisor looks at their cards when they start.

An assessor's questions on your weakest areas, with feedback on each answer.

Compliance Tools Traffic management firm

Check a RAMS

Your RAMS check

Night closure RAMS.pdf. The job: a single carriageway, Category 2: static, at night.

Fix these before the job

  1. Nothing says who briefs the crew before the shift. Name the role that gives the briefing, and where it's recorded.
  2. Template text left in: “Insert company name”. Put your own firm's name in.
  3. It names NHSS 12D Issue 4. Current edition: Issue 5 (July 2025). Change the reference to Issue 5.

Take every measurement and layout from your traffic management plan, drawings and the Code of Practice.

See what one job's RAMS is missing before it goes to site, with the fix.

Compliance Tools Engineering firm

Investigate an incident

Example Engineering Ltd (fictional)

Near miss: a forklift reversing in the stores

Why it happened

What directly caused it: the forklift reversed with nobody watching behind it.

  • Method There's no marked walkway past the stores.
  • People New starters aren't shown the forklift routes.

What to do now

  • Mark a walkway past the stores.Operations manager, 19 Oct 2026
Make a toolbox talk on this

Say what happened and get the report: the causes and what to change.

Compliance Tools Traffic management firm

Answer a finding

The finding, as it's written in your report

Toolbox talks are given on night shifts, but there's no record of who attended them.

Your reply to the certification body

Fill in the parts in square brackets, then send it.

Dear [name],

For the minor nonconformity on toolbox talk records, we now use a signed sheet at every talk, from the night shift on [date]. The operations manager checks the sheets each month. Copies are attached.

Download as Word Copy the reply

Paste a finding and get the fix, the evidence to send and a reply.

Compliance Tools Traffic management firm

Write a document

Example Traffic Services Ltd (fictional)

Induction and briefings

QP-04
Page 1 of 4

Document control
Version2.0
Approved byManaging director

What we changed and why

  • Added who briefs the crew before each job, and where the signed sheets are kept.
  • Took out another firm's name, left from a template.

A controlled document with your logo, or the one you have, improved.

Compliance Tools Traffic management firm

Ask SchemeReady

How tall do our cones need to be on a 40 mph road?

The Code of Practice for street works says: “For roads covered by this Code, the minimum height of cones is 450 mm where the speed limit is 40 mph or less, and 750 mm where the speed limit is 50 mph or more.”

Code of Practice (2013), table Setting out site, inside back cover

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v2.0.

Check anything important against the scheme document.

Ask about any of your standards in your own words, and see where each answer comes from.

Readiness Assessment Compliance Tools

Your dashboard

Example Engineering Ltd (fictional)

ISO 9001 and ISO 14001. Your visit is in 23 days.

Your next step Check your answers before your visit

Readiness Assessment

ISO 9001Nearly ready

ISO 1400171 of 118 questions answered

Compliance Tools

This year’s AI allowance: 18% used.

Both products for each organisation on one page, with the next step to take.

Two products

Readiness Assessment and Compliance Tools

Use either on its own, or both together. With both, the tools draw on your assessment's answers, site visits and action plan. Fix with AI on an action plan row opens the tool for that gap, already filled in.

Readiness Assessment

Get ready for your visit

Answer the questions for each standard you pick, at your own pace. For a sector scheme, ISO 14001 or ISO 45001 you also walk a live site on your phone. You get a score and a band for each standard, and a plan to close the gaps before the assessor arrives.

  • A readiness report, with the stop items an assessor would treat as serious
  • An action plan with owners, dates and effort
  • An audit-day checklist, an evidence list and, where your standard has a site walk, a record of each one
  • Check my answers and 2 practice audits before the day

Compliance Tools

Stay ready all year

AI tools for the paperwork you keep between visits, for one organisation and all its standards. Each tool starts from what SchemeReady knows about your firm and gives you a draft to check before you use it.

  • Toolbox talks, and RAMS checks where RAMS apply
  • Incident reports and answers to audit findings
  • Internal audits, management reviews and documents with your logo
  • A yearly AI allowance. We tell you well before it runs out.

SchemeReady is for owner-managers and the person who does the quality at firms of about five to fifty people, going for certification for the first time or facing a surveillance or recertification visit.

Every tool

What each tool does

The checks in Before your visit help you get ready for an assessor. Compliance Tools covers the paperwork you keep all year. What a tool makes is a draft for you to check.

Readiness Assessment

The last step of each assessment.

Before your visit

  • Check my answers

    Reads every answer and note in your assessment and shows where an assessor is likely to ask for more.

    Free with every Readiness Assessment
  • Practise the audit

    An assessor's questions on your weakest areas, one at a time, with feedback on each answer.

    2 with every Readiness Assessment
  • Check my documents

    Upload up to 12 documents and see what each one shows, what's missing and the smallest fix.

    3 runs a year with Compliance Tools

Compliance Tools

For one organisation and all its standards, all year.

Every week

  • Make a toolbox talk

    A five or ten minute talk on one of your own risks, with questions to ask and a sign-in sheet.

  • Check a RAMS

    Where RAMS apply, upload one job's risk assessment and method statement and see what's missing for that job, with the fix.

When something happens

  • Investigate an incident

    Say what happened, answer up to five questions and get a report with the causes and what to change.

  • Answer a finding

    Paste a finding from your audit report and get the fix, the evidence to send and a reply to your certification body.

Through the year

  • Write up an internal audit

    Turn an office check or a site visit into an audit report, with its findings and actions.

  • Write the management review

    Minutes started from your action plan and answers, with decisions, owners and dates.

Documents

  • Write or improve a document

    A policy, procedure or plan with your name, roles and logo. Or upload the one you have to improve it.

  • Your company details

    Your name, scope, roles and logo, asked once and used in every document.

Ask

  • Ask SchemeReady

    Ask about any of your standards in your own words, and see which questions each answer used.

  • Explain this question

    On any question in your assessment: what it means for your firm, what would show it and an example of a good note.

Your records

  • Everything the tools made

    Kept for your organisation, newest first, each one ready to open again with its files.

    • Toolbox talks
    • Investigations
    • Findings answered
    • Audit reports
    • Review minutes
    • Documents

How it works

From your request to your visit

You ask us for access, and we set up your account once the invoice is paid. Then you work in your browser, at your own pace, on any device.

  1. Tell us what you need

    Pick the Readiness Assessment, Compliance Tools or both, and tell us your standards and when your visit is. We reply soon with a price.

  2. Pay the invoice and sign in

    Once the invoice is paid, we set up your account and email you a link to choose your password. You don't need to install anything.

  3. Work at your own pace

    Answer the key questions for your report and action plan, and walk a site where your standard has a site walk. Open a tool whenever you need one. Your work saves to your account as you go.

SchemeReady is automated and the same for everyone. Nobody at SchemeReady reviews your answers or advises on them, and a result is a self-assessment, not a promise about your audit.

Get started Every step in detail

Assessment body licence

For consultants and assessment bodies

If you prepare several firms for their visits, the assessment body licence lets you offer SchemeReady alongside the work you already do. Each client completes its own assessment before your day with them, so you start with a scored list of gaps and a draft action plan.

Priced on request. The price depends on how many firms you bring and which standards they hold.

  • Invite the firms you work with

    Each firm you invite gets its own account and completes its own assessment. Nothing from one firm appears in another's.

  • Read the full report

    Once a firm completes, you read the documents it can print, from the readiness report and action plan to its site visit records.

  • One way of scoring for every client

    Every client answers the same questions and is scored the same way. Your clients screen shows who has accepted and, once a firm completes, its band.

  • Compliance Tools for every client

    Each client organisation gets Compliance Tools, and Check my documents has up to 20 runs with each licence.

    What each tool does for your clients

Pricing

Prices

The Readiness Assessment's price depends on how many standards you pick. The prices here are for one standard, and we confirm yours before you commit to anything.

Readiness Assessment

Get ready for your visit

£179 one standard

  • One organisation and three people, on any devices
  • Every report and document
  • Check my answers and 2 practice audits
Ask for the assessment

Ask us for a price for several standards.

Compliance Tools

Stay ready all year

£149 a year, one organisation

  • Every tool, for all your standards
  • A yearly AI allowance. We tell you well before it runs out.
  • Check my documents: 3 runs a year of its own
Ask for Compliance Tools

See what's included.

Add an expert hour: £120 with an assessment, £150 on its own.

An hour on a video call with one of our consultants, for any question about your system, your documents or your last visit. It's consultancy, separate from the automated assessment. About the expert hour.

We invoice you at the price we confirm. You can have a full refund within fourteen days of paying, without giving a reason.

The assessment body licence is priced on request. We also sell the 12D template pack at £149. See every price and licence.

Standards

The standards you can be assessed against

Pick the ones you hold or are going for. Every National Highways Sector Scheme applies ISO 9001, so a sector scheme assessment includes the ISO 9001 core and scores you against both.

Management system standards

  • ISO 9001

    Quality management

  • ISO 14001

    Environmental management

  • ISO 45001

    Occupational health and safety management

  • BS 99001

    Quality management in the built environment

National Highways Sector Schemes

  • NHSS 12D

    Temporary traffic management on ordinary roads and through towns

  • NHSS 12A/B

    Temporary traffic management on motorways and fast dual carriageways

  • NHSS 12C

    Mobile lane closures on motorways and dual carriageways

  • NHSS 16

    Laying asphalt by machine or by hand

  • NHSS 23

    Small scale pavement repairs

  • NHSS 7

    Road markings and road studs

  • NHSS 8

    Highway electrical work

Each question bank is written from the published document for its standard, and every report prints the issue it was written from. We don't reproduce any scheme or ISO text.

Question counts and times for each standard. The sources and the check log.

Get started

Tell us what you need and which standards you hold or are going for. We'll reply soon with a price, and you don't commit to anything until you tell us to go ahead.

Rather speak to someone first? Book an expert hour, or read who makes SchemeReady.