A RAM risk assessment is the assessment half of a RAMS, and it is written first because the method statement is built from its controls. Rows for the site's own hazards, each with who is at risk and how, the likelihood and severity, the control and the residual risk. The significant findings as a block. The author, the date, the reviewer and the review date. 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 risk assessment template on this site prints it from the walk's figures, free and without an account.
The rows
Hazard, who, how, likelihood, severity, control, residual risk, further action with an owner and a date. Each hazard numbered, because the method will reference it. A control written as care is not a control; a residual risk left blank is a row not finished.
The significant findings
The hazards that could cause real harm and the controls decided, in a few lines. The part the regulation names and the part most templates leave out. The HSE's five steps, cited below, end in record, and this is the record.
The signature and the review
Author, reviewer, date, review date; reviewed when the task, the site or the people change and after any incident. On a construction site that is weekly, and the review is recorded whether or not anything changed.
Into the method
Each control placed at a step of the method statement by hazard number. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site does that from the assessment's rows; DailyLogDesk Pro keeps the pair against the job. 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 ram risk assessment
Is RAM the same as RAMS?
RAM is the risk assessment and method statement without the final s, or the assessment half alone; either way the document is the same.
How many hazards should a RAM assessment list?
The site's own; five well assessed beat twenty copied.
Is the template free?
Yes, without an account.