Risk assessment and method statement

This sizes a risk assessment and method statement for a construction task before anyone writes it. Enter the steps in the method, the operatives, the duration, the hours per day, the permits to work involved, the PPE items, the briefing time per operative and your loaded rate, and the page returns the sections the RAMS pack needs, the person-days and person-hours on the task, the briefing time including the permit issue, and what the briefing and the labor cost. A RAMS pack is a document with numbers in it; these are the numbers.

The method statement is the sequence, the risk assessment is the why

The two halves of a RAMS pack answer different questions: the risk assessment says what could hurt someone and what controls stop it, the method statement says in what order the work is done so that those controls are actually in place when they are needed. The page counts the sections for both, adds one for each permit to work, and the risk assessment tool on this site scores the assessment half.

Permits add sections, and they add time

Hot work, work at height and confined-space entry each bring a permit, a named issuer and a briefing before the task starts. The page adds the permit's sections to the pack and its hours to the briefing, so the RAMS you send the main contractor is the RAMS you can actually deliver on the morning.

Brief every operative, and price the briefing

A RAMS nobody on the task has read is a document, not a control. Twenty minutes per operative with a signature at the end is the norm, and the page prices it at your loaded rate so it is in the quote rather than eaten. The person-hours on the task sit beside it so the briefing reads as the small fraction it is.