What is SHEQ Control Plane?

SHEQ Control Plane is a system of record for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ) management. It replaces the spreadsheets, paper registers and shared folders that most organisations use to track incidents, hazards, safe work procedures, permits, training, audits and legal compliance, with one connected application where every record can reference every other record it actually depends on.

The product is organised as a set of registers — Incidents, Hazards, Safe Work Procedures, Permits to Work, Training & Certificates, and around two dozen more — grouped the same way in the application's own navigation as in this documentation: Safety, Risk & Procedures, People, Assets & Contractors, Governance & Legal, Environmental, Quality, and Management System.

SHEQ failures are rarely caused by a single missing document — they're caused by information that exists somewhere but wasn't connected to the decision that needed it: a permit issued without checking the hazard it covers, a contractor let on site with an expired medical certificate, a procedure followed after it was already superseded. SHEQ Control Plane's registers are relational on purpose (a Permit to Work links to the Hazard and Safe Work Procedure it's for; a Contractor's site-access status is derived from four separate compliance records, not entered by hand) so that the connection is enforced by the system rather than relying on someone remembering to check.

Each register follows the same basic shape: a list view with filtering and sorting, a detail view, and create/edit forms. Registers that have a lifecycle (Safe Work Procedures, Permits to Work, Non-Conformance Reports, Concessions, Inspection & Test Plans) move through explicit statuses — draft, review, approved, superseded, and similar — rather than being edited in place indefinitely, so there's always a record of what was true at a given point in time.

Start with Navigating the application to get oriented, then go to whichever module matches what you need to do first — the Modules section documents all of them.