What is RAMS in health and safety is answered by where it sits between the law and the work. The law requires a risk assessment: 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 work requires that the assessment's controls actually happen, at the right moment, by the right person. The RAMS is the document that joins the two: the assessment's rows and the method's steps, cross-referenced, briefed and signed. The risk assessment and method statement tool on this site prints it, free and without an account.
The assessment's place
The hazards, who is at risk, the controls, the residual risk, the significant findings: the legal record, and the source of every control the method applies. 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 method's place
The controls at steps: exclusion zone first, isolation proved before the cut, edge protection before the edge, the rescue plan in the emergency block. The crew reads the steps; the assessment is why each is there.
The signatures' place
The crew's, after the briefing, on the version they were briefed on. It turns the document into evidence that the controls were known, which is what an inspector after an incident asks about. A refusal to sign is noted with a witness, and the task does not start until the crew has been briefed.
The site's place
On a managed site the RAMS is approved against the construction phase plan under CDM, cited below, before the task starts. DailyLogDesk Pro keeps the approved, signed RAMS against the job; 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 what is rams in health and safety
Is RAMS a health and safety law?
The risk assessment in it is required by law; the RAMS format is the industry's.
Who is responsible for RAMS?
The employer, who signs; the crew who follow; the site that approves.
Is the tool free?
Yes, without an account.