RAMS construction use follows the site's structure. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, cited below, place duties on clients, designers, principal designers, principal contractors, contractors and workers, and regulation 12 is where the construction phase plan and the health and safety file sit. The principal contractor holds the plan; each contractor supplies a RAMS per task; the principal contractor approves it against the plan before the task starts. The RAMS has to match the site: its rules, its permits, its emergency procedure, its interfaces with other trades. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints the RAMS from your task, free and without an account.
Under the plan
The construction phase plan sets the site rules, the permit system, the emergency procedure, the arrangements for the significant risks. The RAMS is consistent with it or it is returned: a method that names a permit the site does not use, or ignores one it does, is the usual reason.
Per task
One RAMS per task with its own hazards, controls, steps and sign-on. The roof and the excavation share a site and nothing else. 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 interfaces
Other trades in the same area, shared access, the crane's lift zone, the services. A construction RAMS names the interfaces because the principal contractor manages them, and a RAMS that ignores the trade next door is one that has not looked at the programme.
Approval and the record
Submitted before the task is programmed, approved against the plan, signed by the crew at the briefing, kept against the job with the approval. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps it; the tool prints it. 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 rams construction
Who approves a construction RAMS?
The principal contractor's site manager or safety adviser, against the construction phase plan.
How far ahead should it be submitted?
Before the task is programmed; a week is common, and the tool prints it in minutes.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.