For plant hire, construction and lifting equipment
Plant and vehicle safety certificates, one QR code scan away
Put a Safe Cert QR code on each machine. Anyone on site can scan it with their phone camera to see its current LOLER, PUWER and other certificates, with expiry dates.
When a certificate is renewed, the same code shows the new one. No app to install and nothing to re-sticker.
Example Plant Hire Ltd
13t Excavator EX-014
Type: Excavator
Safety Certificates
LOLER thorough examination
ValidExpires: 17/03/2027
PUWER inspection
Expiring SoonExpires: 14/11/2026
Scanned via QR Code
Certificates should travel with the machine
Paper goes missing
Copies left in the cab get lost, damaged or quietly go out of date.
Emailed PDFs go stale
The copy you sent a customer is out of date the day the machine is re-examined.
The gate waits
Plant turns up, the paperwork doesn’t, and someone spends the morning phoning the office.
How Safe Cert works
- 1
Add your machines and certificates
Add each vehicle or machine to your company account and upload its certificates as PDFs or photos, with their expiry dates.
- 2
Stick its QR code on
Download the machine’s QR code, print it on a durable label and fix it where people will look: in the cab or next to the data plate.
- 3
Anyone on site scans it
A phone camera opens the machine’s page with its current certificates. Renew a certificate and the same code shows the new one.
What people see when they scan
Site managers, hirers, operators and inspectors get the machine’s page in their browser, with no sign-in and no app.
- Every current certificate for that machine, with its expiry date
- A clear status: green when valid, amber in the 30 days before expiry, red once expired
- The full certificate, opened as a PDF or photo
- Nothing else: old versions and your other machines stay private
Certificates that expired more than six months ago drop off the page automatically.
Built for whoever looks after the fleet
Renew without re-stickering
Upload the new certificate and the machine’s page shows it straight away. The previous version is archived, so the history stays in your account.
One account for your company
Your team signs in to manage your machines and certificates. Each company only ever sees its own.
Any certificate, any format
PDFs or photos (JPEG, PNG, HEIC and more) up to 10 MB each, with a name and expiry date for every certificate.
Private by default
Files are stored privately and only served through Safe Cert. Archived certificates are visible to your team, not the public.
Who uses Safe Cert
Plant hire
Send every hire machine out with its current certificates, and stop answering "can you send the LOLER?"
Read more →Construction sites
Check the paperwork for plant arriving on site with a scan at the gate, not a phone call.
Read more →Lifting equipment
Keep the latest LOLER thorough examination report one scan away on every crane, telehandler and hoist.
Read more →Not another inspection system
Safe Cert doesn’t replace your examiner, your inspection company or their reports. It makes the latest report available wherever the machine is, to whoever needs to see it.
There’s no inspection workflow to learn and nothing for site teams to install: upload a certificate, stick on a code, and anyone can check it.
Guides
LOLER thorough examinations explained
When lifting equipment needs a LOLER thorough examination, what happens about defects, how long to keep reports and what must go with hired equipment.
PUWER vs LOLER: which rules apply to your plant?
How PUWER and LOLER fit together for plant and lifting equipment: what each covers, inspections versus thorough examinations, and machines under both.
Common questions
Do people need an app or an account to scan a code?
What happens to the QR code when a certificate is renewed?
Which certificates can we add?
Who can see our certificates?
Does Safe Cert carry out inspections?
How do we get started?
Put every certificate one scan away
Tell us about your machines and vehicles and we'll set up your company account.