A method statement and risk assessment template is one template for one file, and the point of printing both halves from one set of figures is that they cannot disagree. The assessment rows with the hazards numbered; the method steps with each control attached by hazard number; the plant, permits and PPE; the emergency arrangements; the sign-on. The HSE's guidance, cited below, gives risk assessment as five steps: identify hazards, assess the risks, control the risks, record your findings, review the controls, and says that if you employ 5 or more people you must record your significant findings. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints the file, free and without an account; the paid product keeps the signed version.
The assessment half
Site-specific hazards, numbered, with who, how, likelihood, severity, control, residual risk and action; the significant findings. Regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, cited below, requires every employer to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to the health and safety of their employees, and regulation 3(6) requires an employer with five or more employees to record the significant findings and any group of employees especially at risk.
The method half
Setting up, doing, making safe; each step with the role and the control it applies by hazard number; plant with inspections; permits; PPE; emergency and rescue. The site's emergency procedure and the rescue plan for height sit in the emergency block, and the site manager checks them first.
Why one set of figures
A method typed separately from the assessment drifts from it; one built from the assessment's rows cannot leave a control out. The tool carries the numbers through. A reviewer can run down the method and find every hazard's number, which is the check that the two halves agree.
Signed and kept
The crew's signatures on the version briefed; kept against the job with the review. Under CDM, cited below, approved against the plan. From the vendors' own pricing pages, cited below: SafetyCulture lists its Premium plan at $29 per seat per month billed monthly or $24 billed annually, with a free plan for small teams; Contractor Foreman lists its Basic plan at $49 per month for one user. DailyLogDesk Pro is $29 per month for the whole site team.
Questions people ask about method statement and risk assessment template
Is the free template the full document?
Yes; nothing is held back on the free print.
Can I edit it after printing?
Change the figures and print again; the paid product keeps it editable with versions.
Do I need to register?
No.