How it works

From the first site visit to the report you sign

Lumex™ takes a lightning risk assessment through every step in one shared workspace. Pick the standard your project works to, and Sphera runs that standard's own method while your team reviews, signs and issues the report.

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Five steps

From project to signed report

The same five steps whichever standard you work to. Each one happens in the same workspace, so nothing is retyped or emailed between tools.

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Set up the project

A project holds as many sites as the job needs. Each site keeps its own zones and its own report, and the project keeps one revision list, so a portfolio stays organised as it grows.

Capture the site

Enter the structure, what surrounds it, the services connected to it and your site photographs in the portal, on a computer or on a phone in the browser. The Surveyor app for recording site data on site is coming soon.

Run the assessment

Pick the standard, and guided steps take you through its inputs. Sphera recomputes as you enter them, shows the working behind every figure and recommends the smallest set of measures that brings the risk within its limits.

Review and sign off

The assessment goes to a reviewer, who reads the report and approves it, rejects it or asks for changes. A workspace can require a second reviewer before anything is issued.

Issue and share the report

Issue a report that cites your standard throughout, with a sign-off block and your logo and firm name, with full white label on Enterprise, and email it to the owner from Lumex™. Each site keeps a review date, with a reminder two months before it falls due.

Roles

Everyone on the job, each with the right access

Roles match how firms divide the work, from the site survey to the signed report. Each one scopes what a person can do on every project and report.

Who touches what on one project A dashed boundary marks your workspace, set up by the Admin. Inside it, the Surveyor records site data on the building, the Engineer runs the assessment, the Reviewer approves the report and the Viewer only reads it. The report then crosses the boundary to the Client outside, as a full and a short PDF by email, with no account or seat. Your workspace One project AdminTeam, billing, access SurveyorSite data on location EngineerRuns the assessment ReviewerApproves the report ViewerReads only ClientNo account or seat Full and short PDF by email Who touches what on one project One project AdminTeam, billing, access SurveyorSite data ReviewerApproves EngineerAssessment ViewerReads only Your workspace Full and short PDFby email ClientNo accountor seat

Inside your workspace

  • Engineer

    Runs the assessment, works through the result and prepares the report.

  • Surveyor

    Records site data on location, so the engineer works from real data.

  • Reviewer

    Checks the assessment and the report, then approves, rejects or asks for changes.

  • Viewer

    Reads projects, assessments and reports without changing them.

  • Admin

    Sets up the workspace, the team, billing and who can do what.

Outside, by email

  • Client

    Receives the approved report by email, as a full and a short PDF, with no account or seat needed.

Lumi, the Lumex™ assistant

Help at every step, and a record of every change

Lumi works around Sphera to cut the routine work, and the audit log keeps the history a reviewer or an auditor will ask for.

One report page with four numbered notes A sample report page. Note 1 circles a risk figure, R B, that Lumi can explain. Note 2 points at the summary paragraph, which Lumi drafted and the engineer approved. Note 3 points at the approval, one of the entries in the audit log. Note 4 points at the revision number printed at the foot of the page, revision 3. Risk components RA RB1.62 × 10⁻⁵ RU Summary Approved Priya Nair Revision 3 One report page with four numbered notes Risk components RA RB1.62 × 10⁻⁵ RU Summary Approved Priya Nair Revision 3 1234

  1. Lumi

    Any figure explained

    Ask about a figure in your saved assessment and get the working behind it, with the clause it rests on. Try a what-if, such as a taller building, without touching the saved assessment.

  2. Lumi

    A drafted report narrative

    Turns the computed figures into plain report prose that the engineer reviews, edits and approves before the report is issued.

  3. Audit log

    Every change on record

    An append-only log of every edit, approval and support session, so you can show who changed what, and when, on any assessment.

  4. Revisions

    Every revision kept

    Each project keeps a revision list with a number, a date and a note on what changed. You can always show which version a client was issued.

The report page and its figures are a sample.

Standards

Three standards, each by its own method

The steps above are the same for every standard. What changes is the method Sphera runs in step 3, and each standard has its own page.

International

IEC 62305-2:2024

One combined risk R for injury to people and physical damage, plus a frequency of damage F.

United States

NFPA 780-2026

The Annex L simplified risk assessment, then four risks judged apart when it is not enough.

Australia

AS 1768:2021

Four types of loss judged apart, then the least protection that clears all four.

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