Building contractors

Construction site sign in, and a roll call you read on a phone

For a builder with a few jobs on and ten to sixty people on each. The sheet on the clipboard by the cabin door becomes an iPad in a locking stand: everyone signs in and out on it, accepts your site rules on screen, and is on a live list the site manager reads from a phone at the assembly point. This page quotes what CDM 2015 asks of you about induction, access and emergencies, says what the kiosk does in a cabin, and says plainly who it is not for.

Try it yourself, no sign-up

Sign in on a demonstration kiosk, then open the fire roll call on your phone. Do not enter real details: everything typed is deleted within the hour.

Book a 15 minute call Who it is not for

From £599 setup and £150 a month plus VAT per site, iPad and stand included. Twelve month minimum term. We are not CDM advisers.

Who this is for

A handful of sites, a cabin on each, and a sheet by the door

The owner, the contracts manager or the site manager of a building firm running a few jobs at once: an extension here, a refurbishment there, ten to sixty people across the trades on each. Signing in is a sheet in the cabin. It does the job on a normal day. It stays in the cabin when everybody walks out to the assembly point, people forget to sign out at four, and from the office there is no way to see who is on which site without ringing round.

CDM 2015

What the Regulations ask about induction, access and emergencies

In their own words, from legislation.gov.uk, read on 14 November 2026. Each card links to the regulation.

Regulation 13(4), the principal contractor

Induction, access and welfare

The principal contractor must ensure that (a) a suitable site induction is provided; (b) the necessary steps are taken to prevent access by unauthorised persons to the construction site; and (c) facilities that comply with the requirements of Schedule 2 are provided throughout the construction phase.

Regulation 5(1): where there is more than one contractor, or it is reasonably foreseeable that there will be, the client must appoint a contractor as principal contractor, in writing. Whether that is you on a given job is in that appointment.

legislation.gov.uk, read 14 November 2026

Regulations 15(9)(a) and 15(10), every contractor

Induction where nobody else gives one, and access before you start

The information provided must include (a) a suitable site induction, where not already provided by the principal contractor; … A contractor must not begin work on a construction site unless reasonable steps have been taken to prevent access by unauthorised persons to that site.

The information in 15(9) is what a contractor gives each worker under their control, under 15(8). Both paragraphs apply to every contractor, subcontractors included.

legislation.gov.uk, read 14 November 2026

Regulation 16(2)

Part 4 binds the contractor

A contractor carrying out construction work must comply with the requirements of this Part so far as they affect the contractor or any worker under the control of the contractor or relate to matters within the contractor’s control.

Part 4 is regulations 16 to 35, the general requirements for all construction sites. Regulations 30 and 31, below, are in it.

legislation.gov.uk, read 14 November 2026

Regulation 31(1) and (3)

Emergency routes and exits

(1) Where necessary in the interests of the health or safety of a person on a construction site, a sufficient number of suitable emergency routes and exits must be provided to enable any person to reach a place of safety quickly in the event of danger. … (3) An emergency route or exit must lead as directly as possible to an identified safe area.

Paragraphs (4) and (5) cover keeping routes clear, lit where necessary, and signed. None of it is a record, and a kiosk does none of it.

legislation.gov.uk, read 14 November 2026

Regulation 30(1) to (3)

Emergency procedures

(1) Where necessary in the interests of the health or safety of a person on a construction site, suitable and sufficient arrangements for dealing with any foreseeable emergency must be made and, where necessary, implemented, and those arrangements must include procedures for any necessary evacuation of the site or any part of it. (2) In making arrangements under paragraph (1), account must be taken of … (d) the number of persons likely to be present on the site at any one time; … (3) Where arrangements are made under paragraph (1), suitable and sufficient steps must be taken to ensure that (a) each person to whom the arrangements extend is familiar with those arrangements; and (b) the arrangements are tested by being put into effect at suitable intervals.

Paragraph (2) lists five matters; (d) is quoted because it is the one about people. The regulation asks for evacuation procedures, for people to be familiar with them, and for them to be tested. It does not say how anybody is to be counted.

legislation.gov.uk, read 14 November 2026

HSE’s guidance on the same duties

From L153, HSE’s free guidance on CDM 2015. Where it says should, so does this page.

L153 paragraph 133

What the induction is for

The principal contractor must ensure every site worker is given a suitable site induction. The induction should be site specific and highlight any particular risks (including those listed in Schedule 3) and control measures that those working on the project need to know about.

The paragraph goes on to list eight issues that should be considered, from first-aid arrangements to accident and incident reporting.

HSE, L153, read 14 November 2026

L153 paragraph 135

Preventing unauthorised access

The principal contractor must ensure reasonable steps are taken to prevent unauthorised access onto the construction site. They should liaise with the contractors on site to physically define the site boundaries by using suitable barriers which take account of the nature of the site and its surrounding environment.

Boundaries and barriers. A kiosk in the cabin is neither.

HSE, L153, read 14 November 2026

L153 Appendix 3, paragraph 5

Topics for the construction phase plan

The following list of topics should be considered when drawing up the plan: … (b) the management of the work including: … (v) site induction; … (vii) fire and emergency procedures;

Regulation 12(1) gives the plan to the principal contractor to draw up, and regulation 15(5) to the contractor where there is one contractor on the project.

HSE, L153, read 14 November 2026

What none of it asks for

None of the regulations quoted here asks for a sign in sheet, a register or a written list of who is on site. They ask for a suitable induction, steps against unauthorised access, emergency arrangements that include evacuation, people who are familiar with them, and tests. L153 does not use the words sign in, register or roll call: we searched the PDF for them on 14 November 2026. A sign in record is one way a site organises those duties. The law does not name it, and a kiosk discharges none of them.

What the kiosk does in a site cabin

Six things it does in a site cabin

Everyone signs in and out on one iPad

Each person types their name, their company and who they are on site for, with a vehicle registration if they drove in. It takes about ninety seconds, and signing out is its own button. A subcontractor needs no app and no login.

Your site rules, accepted on screen

Your site rules or induction declaration, in your words, with I Accept and Go Back. Nobody is signed in without accepting. The record keeps who accepted which wording and when, by a fingerprint of the exact text, after you change it. It records acceptance; it asks no questions and takes no signature.

The roll call on a phone at the assembly point

Everyone signed in and not yet out, on a live list the site manager or marshal opens in the browser of their own phone. Nothing to install, it works on mobile data, and it updates as people sign out. Nobody goes back into the cabin for the sheet.

A drill, kept as a record

Start fire drill on the live roll call freezes the list and starts the clock. The marshal ticks people off on a phone, roll call complete stamps the time, and the staff count, notes and actions are kept as a record you can print. Part of the platform, not a module.

Arrivals in Teams or Slack

Each sign in posts the name, the company and who they are on site for to the Microsoft Teams or Slack channel you choose for that site, so the office sees who has turned up without ringing the cabin. Nothing is sent on sign out.

The record, searchable and exported

Every sign in and sign out, searchable by name, company or host and by date, kept for the period you set, from a day to two years, a year by default. It exports as a spreadsheet of name, company, who they were on site for and both times, in UK time.

The fire roll call on its own A fire drill on the kiosk, start to finish, on film Contractor sign in How the accepted wording is kept

In the cabin

What arrives, and what the cabin needs

The standAn iPad in a steel floor stand with a locking enclosure and a concealed power cable, assembled before it leaves. It belongs to us, is in the monthly price, and goes back within fourteen days when the agreement ends.
A mains socketWhere the stand will go.
An internet connectionWi-Fi at the kiosk with internet access over HTTPS, and no captive portal or splash page. Where a network will not let an iPad on, a captive portal or address filtering for example, tell us before it ships: the alternative is an iPad with its own data SIM.
When the connection dropsPeople keep signing in. Each sign in is held on the iPad and sent when the connection comes back, with the time the person actually arrived. Until it is sent, it is on the iPad and not on the list the marshal reads.
When something breaksA hardware failure is replaced with a configured unit in three to five working days at no cost. Accidental damage, loss and theft are the site’s responsibility, charged at the actual cost of repair or replacement.
Getting it thereAround the East Midlands we install in person. Further afield it arrives configured, with a quick start card, and can be installed in person by arrangement.

The hardware in full

Free, today

If a kiosk is not for this job

The paper versions are free and print from the browser: a sign in sheet with a roll call register for the assembly point, a contractor induction record, and a fire drill record.

See it work

A sign in and a fire roll call, in 100 seconds

Not filmed on a building site, and the screens are the same. A visitor signs in on the iPad. The alarm goes. The marshal opens the live list on their phone and reads off who is still on site. A contractor signs in the same way.

The player loads from YouTube when you press play, and not before. Nothing is sent to Google until then. What happens when you do.

Being straight with you

This is not for you if you need any of these

It does not check CSCS cards.
Or a trade card, any ID or a qualification. The person types their name and accepts your wording; whether they hold the right card is checked by a person, as it is today.
It is not a gate.
There is no turnstile, barrier, door release or biometric reader, and it talks to none. It records who signed in. It does not stop anybody walking past the cabin. A large site that needs controlled access at the gate should talk to a specialist in access control, not to us.
It is not time and attendance or workforce management.
Time on site is not time worked, and nothing here feeds payroll, timesheets or a labour return. There is no staff sign in by name and password either: the kiosk’s staff list is the list of people somebody can name as the person they are on site for. Regulars loaded as a tap list are signed in and out like anyone else, and that is a record of who is on site, not of hours worked. Everyone who signs in on the iPad is on the roll call; anybody who does not is counted the way you count them today.
It holds no records about the people signing in.
No card numbers, training records, insurance or expiry dates on the platform. RAMS and certificates can be uploaded against a permit in the Permit to Work module, which is in early access, and nothing tracks an expiry date.
It shows one wording per site.
Every trade, visitor and driver accepts the same text. It plays no induction video, asks no questions and shows no trade its own induction, so write the wording to make sense to everyone who signs in.
Nobody stays signed in past 23:59 UTC.
Anyone still signed in then is signed out automatically, which is 00:59 in summer, UK time. On night work, people drop off the roll call while still on site, and are back on it if they sign in again.
It needs power in the cabin, and a connection.
A cabin with no Wi-Fi is not a stop: the kiosk can come as an iPad with its own data SIM, so it brings its own connection. That is priced on the call, and it needs a mobile signal where the cabin stands. A site with no cabin, or no power in it yet, is not ready for a kiosk.
One iPad is one queue.
At about ninety seconds a sign in, twenty people arriving in the half hour before the start keep one screen busy for the whole half hour. Regulars need not queue at the form: load your own gang as a list on the iPad and each person signs in with one tap on their name, and out with the same tap. They accept your site wording on their first tap, and again only when the wording changes. The form is then for visitors and for trades who are new to the site. A second iPad on the same site is possible and priced on the call; tell us your start time and your numbers.
It makes nobody compliant.
Not with CDM 2015, and not with anything else, and it discharges no duty. It keeps a record: who signed in, for whom, when they left and the wording each person accepted.

Everything else the kiosk does not do Permit to Work, in early access

Price

The list price, per site

Platform£150 a month plus VAT, per site. Sign in and out, site rules and induction acceptance, the live roll call and the drill record, Teams or Slack alerts, the iPad and stand, hosting, backups, updates and UK support.
SetupFrom £599 plus VAT, per site: installation, configuration and on site training.
One site, year one£2,399 excluding VAT, then £1,800 a year.
Permit to Work£150 a month plus VAT, a module, in early access.
Secure Badge and Approval£150 a month plus VAT, a module, with the setup quoted separately because it includes the label printer and badge stock.
More than one sitePriced per site, on a call.
Not charged forPer person signing in, per user, or support.

Every price, and what is not charged for Our terms in plain English

The term

Twelve months, and a job that ends sooner

The minimum term is twelve months from the day the service starts, then monthly with thirty days’ notice. There is a fourteen day evaluation period from signing in which you can walk away without penalty, and the price does not go up in the first twelve months.

A building job can be finished in twelve weeks. The published term is still twelve months, and there is no shorter or per-project rate on this site. When a job ends inside the term, the kiosk can move with you to your next site. Tell us before it moves: we agree it in writing and change the site details, and it stays one kiosk at one site at a time.

Before you ask

The questions a builder asks first

Does CDM 2015 require a site sign in book or register?

Not in those words. Regulation 13(4) has the principal contractor ensure that a suitable site induction is provided and that the necessary steps are taken to prevent access by unauthorised persons. Regulation 30 asks for emergency arrangements that include evacuation procedures, that people are familiar with them, and that they are tested. None of the regulations quoted on this page names a sign in sheet, a register or a written record of who is on site, and HSE’s guidance on the Regulations, L153, does not use the words sign in, register or roll call. A sign in record is one way a site organises those duties, not a duty of its own.

Does a sign in kiosk make a building site CDM compliant?

No. It discharges no duty under CDM 2015 or any other regulation. It keeps a record of who signed in, for whom, when they left and the wording each person accepted, and it puts the people signed in on a list you can read at the assembly point. The induction, the access arrangements and the emergency procedures stay with the principal contractor and the contractors.

Is there a construction site roll call app?

Not one anybody installs. The site manager or marshal opens a link in the browser of their own phone and the live list of everyone signed in and not yet out is there. It works on mobile data, so reading it at the assembly point does not need the cabin’s Wi-Fi.

Does it check CSCS cards?

No. It does not check a CSCS card, a trade card or any ID. Each person types their name and accepts your wording, and that acceptance is what is recorded. Checking cards stays with a person.

What if the cabin has no Wi-Fi?

The kiosk needs an internet connection. The hardware page asks for Wi-Fi at the kiosk with internet access over HTTPS and no captive portal, and names an iPad with its own data SIM as the alternative where a network will not let the iPad on. Tell us what the cabin has before anything ships. If the connection drops, sign ins carry on: each is held on the iPad and sent when it comes back, with the time the person arrived, and it is not on the marshal’s list until it has been sent.

What happens to people working nights?

Anyone still signed in at 23:59 UTC is signed out automatically at that time: 23:59 in winter and 00:59 in summer, UK time. Somebody working through it leaves the live roll call at that moment while still on site, and the record shows that time as their sign out. To be on the roll call again, they sign in again.

Our jobs last a few months. What is the term?

Twelve months from the day the service starts, per site, then monthly with thirty days’ notice, with a fourteen day evaluation period from signing in which you can walk away without penalty. That is the published term, and there is no shorter rate on this site. If a job ends inside the term, the kiosk can move with you to your next site: tell us before it moves, we agree it in writing and change the site details. It is one kiosk at one site at a time.

Are permits to work included?

Not in the platform. Permit to Work is a module at £150 a month plus VAT, in early access: built, and it has not yet run at a customer, so the first months are treated as a pilot and you keep your paper permits until it has proved itself on your jobs. It adds a Contractor button to the kiosk, with RAMS and certificates uploaded against the permit and signed off on screen.

Sources

Check any of this yourself

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015SI 2015/51 on legislation.gov.uk, latest available, with “no known outstanding effects” shown on each regulation quoted. Regulations 5(1), 13(4), 15(9)(a), 15(10), 16(2), 30(1) to (3) and 31(1) and (3) are quoted, and 12(1) and 15(5) referred to. Where a regulation prints a dash before a list, the list follows here without it, and apostrophes are set as on the rest of this site. Read 14 November 2026.
HSE, L153, Managing health and safety in constructionHSE’s guidance on CDM 2015, published 2015, ISBN 978 0 7176 6626 3, free. Paragraphs 133 and 135 (page 40) and Appendix 3 paragraph 5 (page 77) are quoted. It reprints regulations 30 and 31 on page 56 with no guidance of its own under them. Its text was searched for sign in, register, roll call, muster, assembly point and headcount, and none appears. Read 14 November 2026.

What this page is

Information, not advice

We are not health and safety consultants, CDM advisers or competent persons, and nothing here is safety or legal advice. The Regulations and HSE’s guidance are quoted and linked; read them at source. HSE has no connection with Noon Elite.

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