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- Getting started with Risk MemoFrom your first login to your first inspection — the path a new account takes.
- Free inspection templatesReady-made templates you can copy into your account and start using today.
- Managing PPE properlySerial numbers, data structure, and keeping a register that survives an audit.
- Behind Risk MemoCompany news and founder stories from the team building Risk Memo.
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Improve Incident Reporting with Risk Memo’s Accident or Incident Report Template
A walk through the free Accident or Incident Report template — incident documentation, injured person details, equipment involvement and witness accounts.
InFree inspection templates
· 3 min read
You’ve started a free trial to Risk Memo: Here’s what to do next
What happens after you sign up — setting up your account, building your first checklist, inviting your team and adding your equipment.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Streamline Inspections with Risk Memo’s Free Ropes Course PPE Inspection Template
A free Ropes Course PPE Inspection template built to make thorough inspections quick — what it covers, and how to start using it.
InFree inspection templatesManaging PPE properly
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Prioritise, assign, alert: All about Actions on Risk Memo
How task management works on Risk Memo — prioritise tasks, assign duties, give timely feedback, and make sure work actually gets closed out.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Top Mistakes When Using Excel to Manage Personal Protective Equipment
The most common mistakes we see when operators run PPE inventory and inspections in Excel — duplicate serial numbers, and data structure that fights you.
InManaging PPE properly
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This is how a paddle in the water forever changed my life
How an aimless teenager became a ropes course inspector, and then a software founder — the long way round to Risk Memo.
InBehind Risk Memo
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What happens when you record your equipment on Risk Memo
QR code tracking, image annotation, automated alerts and search tagging — what changes once your equipment inventory lives in Risk Memo.
InGetting started with Risk MemoManaging PPE properly
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What features are available on a Risk Memo digital checklist?
A rundown of eight ways Risk Memo's digital checklists go beyond paper: multiple question types, image annotation, search tags, dynamic sections, collaboration, and offline access.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Elevate team communication and enhance external collaborations on Risk Memo
How Risk Memo builds communication into daily checklist, equipment and task management, and how connecting accounts streamlines collaboration with external inspectors.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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How to automatically record equipment and employee history on Risk Memo
How Risk Memo automatically records equipment and employee history by linking digital checklists to equipment records and team profiles, replacing paper forms and Excel.
InManaging PPE properly
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Announcing Risk Memo 3: Share, collaborate and take action
Risk Memo 3.0 is here, adding comments with image and file sharing to checklist and equipment actions, plus speed, stability, and layout improvements.
InBehind Risk Memo
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Enhance Your Paddlesports Safety with Risk Memo's Comprehensive Inspection Template
A look at Risk Memo's free Paddlesports Equipment Inspection template for canoes, kayaks, helmets, PFDs and paddles — checklists, batch inspections and equipment records.
InFree inspection templates
· 3 min read
Why admin should not be an extra job beyond the job
Alistair Scott on how admin became a second job on top of daily safety ops at Flying Fox, and why that inefficiency led him to build Risk Memo.
InBehind Risk Memo
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Your entire inventory at a glance with Risk Memo's Search Tag System
Alistair Scott explains how Risk Memo's search tag system lets teams instantly search and segment equipment and checklists, replacing rigid folder structures and error-prone spreadsheets.
InManaging PPE properly
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Free team member accounts on Risk Memo
Why Risk Memo makes team member accounts free forever for up to 99 employees, and what team members can do with checklists, actions, and equipment records.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Benefits of a Digital Checklist System
Why moving from paper clipboards to a digital checklist system improves accuracy, speeds up inspections, and strengthens communication between workers and managers.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Introducing checklist scheduling
Learn how Risk Memo's checklist scheduling feature automatically schedules checklists and reminders, carrying over data from previous checklists so nothing gets missed.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
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Risk Memo's AI Template Generator
Learn how Risk Memo's AI-powered checklist template generator lets you create custom checklist templates in minutes, either from an existing form or from scratch.
InGetting started with Risk Memo
· 7 min read
Risk Memo: A New iAuditor Alternative
A comparison of Risk Memo and iAuditor covering pricing, features, and which businesses each app suits best — including how Risk Memo links checklists to equipment and employee records.
InBehind Risk Memo
· 3 min read
Vehicle Safety Checklist
A weekly vehicle safety checklist for employees driving their own or a company vehicle, covering external, internal, and engine checks to cut breakdowns and road risks.
InFree inspection templates
· 3 min read
Fire Risk Assessment
What a Fire Risk Assessment is, why it's a legal requirement, and how going digital with Risk Memo helps you record fire hazards, evidence and actions.
InFree inspection templates
· 6 min read
Personal Protective Equipment Inspection Checklist
A walkthrough of Risk Memo's free PPE Inspection Checklist template — covering LOLER-based inspection criteria, failed-inspection logging, and the equipment register.
InFree inspection templatesManaging PPE properly
· 8 min read
Hazard Report & Risk Assessment Template
A walkthrough of Risk Memo's free Hazard Report & Risk Assessment template, covering risk description, consequences, control measures and review, and why going digital beats paper forms.
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