A RAMS health and safety template is a form, and the thing to check before using one is whether the form carries the record the law describes. 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. A RAMS template that has hazard rows and method steps but no block for the significant findings and the groups especially at risk is a form that produces an incomplete record. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints the record and the form together, free and without an account.
The record inside the form
The significant findings: the hazards that could cause real harm and the controls decided. The groups especially at risk: young workers, new starters, the public, a lone worker. Both stated as blocks, not left to be inferred from the rows. The tool on this site prints them from the assessment.
The form around it
Header, task, the assessment rows, the method steps with controls attached, plant and permits and PPE, emergency and rescue, sign-on and review. 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.
What a site adds
A managed site under CDM, cited below, has site rules and a construction phase plan the RAMS must be consistent with: the permits, the exclusion zones, the emergency procedure. The template carries those as fields so the approver sees them answered.
Keeping the record
The signed RAMS, in its version, against the job, with the review date and the incident reports. That is the file an inspector asks for and DailyLogDesk Pro keeps; the free tool prints the template. 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 health and safety template
Is a RAMS template a legal document?
The risk assessment in it is the record the regulation requires; the rest is what sites and clients expect.
Does the template need a risk matrix?
A likelihood and severity scale is the usual way to state the risk; the template carries one, and the words matter more than the numbers.
Is the template free?
Yes, without an account.