A PPE Inspection System you’ll love

Failsafe personal protective equipment management.

How to Design and Implement a Smart PPE Management System

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When people are doing things high off the ground, there’s always a chance they will fall.

If that happens to your employees or customers, the quality of your ropes and harnesses could mean the difference between life and death.

That’s why personal protective equipment (PPE) inspections are vital for any business where working at height is involved.

And it’s vital to make sure inspections are adhered to and records are easy to find in the event of an incident, which you can do with Papertrail.

Meeting and Exceeding International Standards

Papertrail enables you and your team to meet standards for UK Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER), Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations and other legal inspection requirements and standards.

Robust inspection history and evidence

Reduce compliance administration

Schedule automatic reminders for daily, weekly, monthly and annual inspections.

A complete service history for each item of PPE

Make sure you are not using faulty or out-of-date PPE. Extend the lifetime of PPE equipment by ensuring it is reviewed and repaired periodically.

A complete view of the status of all your PPE stock

Show compliance at any time

Prevent equipment supply bottlenecks

Papertrail helps to maintain our records…

"...in one easy to use and stable location. There are no more spreadsheets that change with each new person adding something new or changing it. The application is intuitive to use and the staff are really helpful and quick to respond."

Lee Bolton, Rope Access Manager

Offshore Painting Services

Safety Management Simplicity

When it comes to safety, don’t leave your staff and customers hanging. For basic PPE management or for global teams, rest assured your legal requirements are met and you are accessing the most up to date and relevant inspection history, checklists and reports.

Set six-month or annual inspection schedules

LOLER and other standard certificate exports

PPE Manufacturer checklists - See available checklists

Simple to Use. Globally Available

Implementing Papertrail does not require any additional hardware and the system’s simplicity translates into more profitable operations. You can access the data you need at any time, from the cloud. Papertrail has access to PPE Manufacturer checklists and works with any safety equipment.

Compatible with any brand or component with a serial number, barcode or RFID tag

Mobile friendly and customisable (iOS and Android)

Receive notifications and alerts

NEW Directly import from manufacturer unique Database

Papertrail are partnered with leading PPE PPE Manufacturers. This enables you to buy new equipment, Scan it, and instantly add to your PPE Inventory in a few clicks. No more, manual data entry or mistakes.

Prevent fake or counterfeit equipment entering your stores and inventory

Product recall and self inspection notifications and alerts

Instant on click entry to your Papertrail account

Features to make PPE management work for you

Improved inspection management

Inspection schedules to suit your business or organisational operating procedures

Status reports

Certifications and export options

Integrate into your existing systems

Powerful workflows

API Integrations

Task management, and care and maintenance schedules

Management system success

Preventing Future PPE issues and availability

Lists of maintenance and Quarantine Items

Reporting damaged and regular maintenance required

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See why thousands of professionals from 45 countries are using Papertrail to capture millions of inspections.

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Common Questions

Will my team adopt the software?

Yes! We have a 99.9% client retention rate because Papertrail works better than anything else and it's ridiculously easy to use.

If your teams can use a phone, they can use Papertrail. It takes 5 minutes or less for users to understand the product. Our user interface provides plenty of help and guidance. We can guarantee that software adoption will never be an issue.

How long will it take to get my entire volume of assets into the software?

Less than 24 hours. And we will do it for you!

You just need to sit back and focus on the important parts of your business and leave the data migration to us!

Is it easier than using spreadsheets?

Yes! Spreadsheets get really complicated once your inventory starts growing, with hundreds of documents and folders with no reminders for inspections and no accountability and prone to user entry errors. In short they are a nightmare for asset management and inspections.

Papertrail is better than spreadsheets in every single aspect, whether it's ease of use, features or functionality.

Try it for free for 45 days and see for yourself!

Do you have a specific feature I need?

Papertrail is a modular solution that can be customised to fit your requirements.

We offer features like printing reports, custom checklists, NFC, RFID, and barcode scanning. If there's a specific feature vital to your business, we either have it or are working on it. Your needs are our priority!