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The Fire Log Book
Weekly alarm tests, emergency lighting, extinguisher and fire door checks, and drills: one routine category, exported as its own section.
Getting StartedInviting and Managing Team Members
Invite staff, choose roles, organise people into groups, and understand what each role can do.
OperationsManaging Visitors
Log visitors quickly or send a self sign-in link, capture badge details, and keep an on-site record.
OperationsManaging Contractors
Set credential requirements, invite contractors, review their documents, and control access with events.
OperationsAssigning Maintenance Work
Give a job to a person, a team or a contractor, and make sure the person it lands on is told.
OperationsA person at a glance
Click a name on the rota, Payroll, Requests or Reports to see their hours, pay, holiday and anything worth knowing, without leaving the page.
OperationsPPM Certificates under Documents
Complete a planned maintenance visit with its certificate attached and Paddl files it under Documents, with an expiry worked out from the interval.
OperationsPlanned Maintenance (PPM)
The checks and services that should happen on a cycle, from a catalogue of what a UK hospitality site is expected to do.
OperationsThe rota and closed sites
What happens to shifts and alerts when a site is shut for a refurbishment or a holiday.
OperationsApproving hours and timesheets
Payroll lists every shift in the dates you pick: what the flags mean, how to correct a time, and what approving covers.
Compliance & Food SafetyRecords: Checks, Reports and Evidence
The three kinds of record Paddl keeps, where each one lives, and what a dot or a missing row is telling you.
Compliance & Food SafetyGenerating an Audit Pack
Pull all your compliance documents into one downloadable ZIP, ready to hand to an EHO or inspector.
Getting StartedFinding Your Way Around
The sidebar and its sections, searching for any page, the Settings home, the bar at the bottom of a phone screen, and what the colours of Paddl's messages mean.
Compliance & Food SafetyPreparing for an EHO / Inspection Visit
Readiness in the weeks before, the EHO visit page on the day, and the Audit Pack when they want a file.
Team ChatGroups, channels and direct messages
Make a group for a project or a team, mute what you do not need, and understand why some channels cannot be left.
Team ChatTeam Chat: the basics
Where chat lives on the phone and in the admin panel, which channels you get, and what happens to a conversation when somebody leaves.
Compliance & Food SafetyRecording Pest Control
Routine pest checks, sightings and contractor visits on the Pest control chip of the Records page, with visit reports under Documents.
Mobile AppThe App for Contractors
How contractors sign in, keep credentials current, sign documents, see their events, and track their hours.
Compliance & Food SafetyPAT Testing
PAT certificates live under Documents in the PAT Testing category, linked to the equipment they cover, with retest reminders.
OperationsMaintenance Jobs & Appointments
How a reported fault becomes a booked job, gets a deadline, and is tracked through to done.
OperationsBuilding your first rota
Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.
Compliance & Food SafetyFire & Safety Records
One Fire & Safety Records page with chips for the fire log book, fire safety checks and first response, with certificates under Documents.
OperationsScheduling checks around service
The routine editor shows the quiet windows in each site's day so a check lands in a lull, not the lunch rush.