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# What is PPM maintenance and how does planned preventative maintenance work? PPM maintenance means your engineers service, inspect, and repair assets on a calendar agreed in advance. They find wear on a routine visit, before it turns into a breakdown. PPM stands for planned preventative maintenance. It runs in three steps: record each asset in a register, set its tasks and interval [...]

Any vendor can make their product look good for 45 minutes. So we wrote the questions vendors hope you skip, and a way to score every answer so you can compare vendors on equal terms. This is why we built our buyer’s guide the way we did, and how to choose field service software in the UK without relying on the demo.

Several small air conditioning units can add up to one TM44 inspection. If the units you control pass 12kW combined, an accredited assessor must inspect them every five years, and a missing report carries a £300 penalty. See who is responsible, what the report covers and how to check yours is valid.

Few FM compliance duties have intervals set in law: LOLER examinations, F-gas leak checks and landlord gas safety checks. Most other intervals come from guidance and standards, and you need to show an inspector why yours suit each site. See who holds each duty and what records prove it.

BS 5266-1:2025 adds a five-yearly photometric check to UK emergency lighting testing. Get the full schedule, from daily panel checks to annual three-hour tests, what the law expects of the responsible person, what a test log should record, and how to keep every site on track across a multi-site estate.

Landlords must have gas appliances checked every 12 months, keep each CP12 record for at least 2 years and give tenants a copy within 28 days. See who the duty covers, what the check includes, what happens when an appliance fails and how gas service businesses keep renewals on track across many sites.

A missed extinguisher service leaves faults undetected and gaps in your records. See the BS 5306-3 intervals for each extinguisher type, what the monthly check, annual service and extended service cover, who counts as a competent person, and how to keep servicing on track across multiple sites.

You don't need a specialist for Regulation 10 fire door checks. GOV.UK describes them as simple and visual. This guide covers what to look at, how often they're due, the 4 mm gap limit, and the self-closer test, plus where a professional inspection goes further and what to record for audit.

An EICR comes back with a C2 code. Is that a 24-hour emergency under Awaab's Law, or does it wait for the next inspection cycle? The code itself is the answer, and it's one of seven hazards where the trigger isn't as obvious as it looks.

Most guides say five years for every legionella record. HSE's own rule is more specific than that, and it's the kind of detail that matters when a subcontractor's reports land in your inbox and an inspector asks to see the logbook.

A quote gets approved, but the invoice that follows doesn't match it. The real problem is usually that nothing connects the quote to what happens after, scheduling, job costing, invoicing, not the estimate's accuracy. Here's what to look for in estimating software that keeps the whole job on one record.

A bin sits full three days after it should have been emptied, and nobody in the office can say whether the round even ran. Waste management software closes that gap, and with digital waste tracking becoming mandatory from October 2026, paper records won't be enough for much longer. Here's what to look for.