RAMS in health and safety sit at a junction. Above them, the law: 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. Around them, the site: 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. Below them, the day: the crew that reads the steps and signs. The RAMS takes the duty from the law, the rules from the site, and the knowledge from the crew, and gives back a signed document that all three can read. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints it, free.
From the law
The risk assessment half is the record regulation 3 requires: the significant findings, the groups at risk, signed and dated. The method statement is how the industry shows the assessment applied. The template on this site prints the record in that shape.
From the site
The plan's site rules, permits, emergency procedure and interfaces, named at the steps that need them; the approval against the plan before the task starts. A RAMS that ignores the plan is returned. The site manager's checklist is the plan, and the RAMS is read against it line by line.
From the crew
The walk with the operative that finds the real hazards; the briefing that finds the wrong step; the signature that makes it a record. 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.
Given back
A document the inspector reads after an incident, the site manager reads before the task, and the crew reads at the briefing. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps it against the job with the reviews and the incident reports; 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 in health and safety
Is RAMS a legal requirement?
The assessment half is; the method statement is the site's and the industry's requirement.
Who owns the RAMS?
The employer, who signs; the site approves; the crew follows.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.