RAMS risk assessment method statement is the full name written out, and the full name is the document's structure: the risk assessment first, the method statement second, in one file, cross-referenced by hazard number so every control the assessment finds appears at a step in the method. 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 from your task's figures, free and without an account.
The assessment half
Rows for the site's own hazards, each numbered, with who is at risk, how, likelihood, severity, control and residual risk, and the significant findings as a block. 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
Steps in order, setting up, doing, making safe, each naming the control it applies by hazard number, with plant, permits, PPE and emergency arrangements around them. A reviewer runs down the method and finds every hazard's number.
The header and the sign-on
Job, site, task, dates, author, reviewer, version at the top; the crew's signatures with the date at the end, on the version briefed. The header files it; the sign-on makes it a record. A signed version and an unsigned revision are two documents, and the file keeps both.
Approval and keeping
Submitted to the principal contractor under CDM, cited below, approved against the plan, kept against the job with the review date. 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 risk assessment method statement
Which half is written first?
The assessment; the method is built from its controls.
Can the halves be separate files?
They can; one file with the cross-reference is what approvers prefer.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.