Week of 9 April 2026

Manage hazardous materials — and connect them to the rest of your compliance record

Hazardous Materials is a new register within the Risks module. You can record every substance on site: classification, supplier details, storage requirements, control measures, and recommendations - with images and safety data sheets attached directly to the record. Each material gets a QR code that can be scanned in the field for instant access to the full record, without needing to be logged in.

Hazardous Materials register with substance details and field QR code

From any hazardous material record you can generate a risk assessment directly, with the AI risk generator pre-loaded with the material's context so the suggested hazards and controls are relevant from the start. The resulting risk assessment links back to the source material, keeping the connection visible in both directions — so if someone is looking at the risk assessment, they can see which material it came from, and vice versa.

When something goes wrong, you can link hazardous materials from the register to incident investigation steps, formally documenting which substances were involved. This creates a clear audit trail from the material record through to the incident, and makes it straightforward to identify patterns across incidents involving the same materials over time.

Track and act on building condition with Condition Surveys

Condition Surveys is a new section within Premises that gives you a structured way to assess the state of your buildings and infrastructure. You create a survey, define which locations it covers, then record findings against each element — grading condition, setting priority, and adding notes, photos, and supporting documents as you go. Surveys move through draft to complete, giving you a clear record of when an assessment was carried out and by whom, including the surveying organisation's details.

Condition survey with findings, grading, and work order links

Each finding can be turned directly into a work order, or linked to an existing one, so the path from "this needs attention" to "someone is dealing with it" is a single step rather than a separate conversation. Work orders inherit the finding's images and details automatically. You can also see all work orders linked to a survey at a glance, so nothing falls through the gap between assessment and action.

The default element set follows the DfE's condition data collection framework, useful if you're in education and need your surveys to align with national reporting. The grading system runs A to D and is designed to match that standard out of the box, though the structure works just as well outside education for any organisation that needs to systematically track what needs fixing and at what urgency.

Clearer control over what appears when someone scans a location or asset

QR scan visibility on location and asset blocks has been simplified. Previously, making a block public or hidden required two separate toggles, which meant turning one off before turning the other on. It's now a single three-option control: team only, visible on scan, or hidden on scan. So you can set exactly what a scanner sees in one step.

Scan visibility control on a location or asset block

You can also set scan visibility when creating a block, rather than only being able to change it afterwards. The "team only" option makes it clear that signed-in team members can still see the block when they scan, it's only anonymous scanners who won't.