What are RAMS is answered by what a site manager asks for before a task starts: a risk assessment and method statement, one per task, the first finding the hazards and controls and the second saying how the work is done with those controls at the right steps, signed by the crew. 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 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 risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints one from your task's figures, free and without an account.
The risk assessment part
The task's hazards on this site, who is at risk, the likelihood and severity, the control for each and the residual risk, plus the significant findings. 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 statement part
The work in numbered steps with the controls attached where they apply, the plant with its inspections, the permits, the PPE, the emergency and rescue arrangements. The crew follows it with a finger on the page.
Why one per task
The roof and the excavation share a site and nothing else; a RAMS that covers both is one the crew on the roof reads about trenches. A job has a set of RAMS, one per task, kept together. A principal contractor asks for the set and reads the one for the task on the programme that day.
Who writes and who approves
The contractor's competent person writes it with the crew; the principal contractor approves it against the construction phase plan; the crew signs it at the briefing. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps the set against the job; the tool prints each. 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 what are rams
Are RAMS required by law?
The risk assessment is; the method statement is the site's requirement and the industry's practice.
How do I know a RAMS is good enough?
Site-specific hazards, controls at steps, a rescue plan where there is height, signatures. The tool prints the reading time as a check on length.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.