One cross-linked system for the whole SHEQ function — incidents and RIDDOR, hazard register and RAMS, risk register, audits, CAPA, a UK legal register that watches the law for you, training and management review. ISO 45001, 14001 and 9001 run together, the way an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor would expect to see them.
SHEQ — sometimes written HSEQ — is the combined Safety, Health, Environment and Quality function most UK SMEs run with a single manager and far too many spreadsheets.
SHEQ stands for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality. In ISO terms those four map onto three management-system standards that share the same Annex SL backbone, which is exactly why they are managed together:
Occupational health and safety — hazards, incidents, RIDDOR, worker consultation, the H&S half of SHEQ.
ENVIRONMENTEnvironmental management — aspects and impacts, environmental legal compliance, operational control.
QUALITYQuality management — process control, nonconformity, customer focus, the Q in SHEQ.
The problem SHEQ software solves is fragmentation. An incident is a safety event, but it can also be an environmental one and a quality one. A corrective action raised from a near miss should feed all three systems, not get filed in one. When Safety, Health, Environment and Quality live in separate documents, the cross-links break — and that is precisely where surveillance audits find their easiest non-conformities.
The operational modules a SHEQ manager uses daily — connected, so a single record feeds every standard it touches.
An incident command centre captures events (including by voice on site), classifies them, and flags potentially RIDDOR-reportable cases so nothing is missed — with investigation, 5-Whys and corrective action linked to the record.
A live hazard register with a 5×5 matrix, and AI-drafted Risk Assessments and Method Statements you can refine, render to PDF and send to clients — with a full send audit trail.
One 5×5 risk register feeding ISO 45001, 14001 and 9001 at once — inherent and residual scoring, controls, treatment plans and review dates.
Internal audit programme with finding tracker and ISO 19011 trail, and corrective actions carried through root cause to effectiveness verification — overdue actions surfaced, not buried.
A pre-loaded UK legal register with regulatory-update intelligence — relevant Critical and High changes are bridged in automatically with corrective actions attached. Clause 6.1.3 without the quarterly panic.
Training matrix with expiry tracking — certificates flagged before they lapse, and an expired cert can raise a corrective action automatically. Nobody finds out at audit.
An ISO 9.3 management review with all mandatory inputs auto-populated from live audit, CAPA, objective and KPI data — one review covering the whole SHEQ system.
A Golden Thread links a hazard to its RAMS, that RAMS to the training behind it, the training to the audit that verified it — so the auditor follows the chain in one click across all three standards.
SHEQ is hardest in the sectors where site work, contractors and specialist regimes pile up the documentation. PICMS ships UK industry packs on top of the core SHEQ trio for exactly those cases:
CHAS, Constructionline, SafeContractor and CDM 2015 — contractor management, toolbox talks, site diaries and the construction SHEQ paper trail.
COMMERCIAL DIVINGProject packs, RAMS, plant and certification registers, dive logs — aligned with DWR 1997, HSE ACoP L103/L104 and IMCA D018/D023/D040 reference areas.
Both build on the same SHEQ foundation: incidents, hazards, RAMS, audits and CAPA, with the sector-specific registers added on top. The construction firm chasing CHAS and the diving contractor keeping dive projects audit-ready are running the same underlying SHEQ system — just with the modules their work demands.
PICMS is also built for the UK from the ground up: data hosted in London, a legal register pre-loaded with UK statute (HSWA 1974, CDM 2015, COSHH, RIDDOR, the Environmental Permitting Regulations 2016), and clause structures shaped by what an IRCA Registered Principal Auditor actually looks for — not a US EHS tool retrofitted for British use.
SHEQ stands for Safety, Health, Environment and Quality — the four disciplines a UK organisation typically manages together. In ISO terms, Safety and Health map to ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety), Environment maps to ISO 14001 (environmental management) and Quality maps to ISO 9001 (quality management). The acronym is sometimes written HSEQ; it refers to the same combined function. SHEQ software is the system that manages all four as one rather than as separate spreadsheets and folders.
PICMS manages the whole SHEQ function in one cross-linked system: incident reporting with a RIDDOR workflow, a hazard register with RAMS, a 5×5 risk register, internal audits, corrective actions (CAPA), a UK legal register with regulatory-update intelligence, training records and management review. Because ISO 45001, 14001 and 9001 share the same Annex SL structure, the same incident, risk or audit feeds whichever standards it touches — a single source of truth rather than three parallel systems.
They are closely related. SHEQ describes the function — Safety, Health, Environment, Quality. An integrated management system (IMS) describes how the underlying ISO standards are run together as one system. PICMS does both: it gives SHEQ managers the operational tools they use daily (incidents, hazards, RAMS, audits) while running ISO 45001, 14001 and 9001 as a single integrated system underneath, with shared evidence and one management review. See our integrated management system software page for the IMS side.
PICMS includes an incident command centre with a RIDDOR workflow — incidents are captured (including by voice on site), classified, and flagged where they are potentially RIDDOR-reportable so nothing is missed, with the investigation, root-cause analysis and corrective action linked to the record. PICMS does not submit the RIDDOR report to the HSE on your behalf; reporting remains the responsible person's duty. It makes sure the evidence trail behind any report is complete and traceable.
Yes. On top of the core SHEQ trio, PICMS ships UK industry packs. The Construction pack covers CHAS, Constructionline, SafeContractor and CDM 2015. The Commercial Diving pack keeps project paperwork audit-ready and aligned with the Diving at Work Regulations 1997, HSE ACoP L103/L104 and IMCA D018/D023/D040 reference areas. PICMS is independent of CHAS, IMCA and other bodies — it helps you demonstrate alignment, it does not certify you.
What PICMS does is give the SHEQ function a single source of truth — so the surveillance audit verifies a system that already found its own problems first.
14 days free, full feature access, no credit card surprise. Incidents, hazards, RAMS, audits, CAPA, legal register and training — all cross-linked across ISO 45001, 14001 and 9001.