Risk assessment method statement RAMS is the long name and the short one written together, and both mean one file with two halves: the risk assessment that finds a task's hazards and decides the controls, and the method statement that places each control at a step of the work. The file has one header, a cross-reference by hazard number and the crew's signatures at the end. 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 it from your task, free and without an account.
The assessment half
Site-specific hazards, numbered, with who is at risk, how, likelihood, severity, control, residual risk; 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 with each control named at its step by hazard number; plant with inspections; permits; PPE; the emergency and rescue arrangements. Each control appears at a step by hazard number, so a reviewer can find every one or find the gap.
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. The header files it, the sign-on makes it a record. A signed version and an unsigned revision are two documents, and both are kept.
The approval and the record
Under CDM, cited below, the principal contractor approves the file against the plan; the signed version is kept against the job. 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 risk assessment method statement rams
Which name should I use on the document?
The full name in the header; RAMS in conversation.
Is the cross-reference necessary?
It is what lets a reviewer see every control applied; without it the halves can disagree.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.