RAMS against the job, not against a folder.
Most RAMS (risk assessment and method statement) are a Word document from three years ago with the site name swapped. A RAMS raised against the real job prints the client, the property, the schedule date and the source inspection or survey. That is what makes it worth reading when somebody on site is deciding whether to start.
Section 01How to do it
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Raise it from the job, not from scratch
Starting from the job puts the client, the property and the source reference on the document without anybody typing them.
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Start from the template
The template is a sensible starting point for the trade, not a legal opinion. It means you are editing something rather than staring at a blank page.
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Cut what does not apply
A RAMS that lists hot works for a job with no hot works trains everybody to skim it. Removing what does not apply makes the rest land.
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Add what is specific to this site
Occupied communal areas, a single stair core, a resident group, an access limit. These site-specific lines earn the document its place.
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Approve it and brief it
Sign it off, then actually brief it at induction. A RAMS nobody was briefed on is a filing exercise.
Section 02What the app actually does here
- A RAMS is raised against a job and prints the client, the property, the schedule date and the source inspection or survey
- Fire doors and fire stopping have separate templates. Fire stopping has one for a survey and one for a defect
- The fire stopping templates come with eight hazard groups: COSHH, dust and fume, hot works, and work at height
- The others are confined and restricted spaces, manual handling, fire-strategy impairment, and asbestos and existing materials
- A fire stopping RAMS is raised from a survey or a defect, and is approved before its PDF is locked
- Hazards are grouped, each group with its own list. Every hazard records who is at risk and the risk that remains
- Method statements are numbered steps, not prose, so somebody can follow them on site
- The disclaimer at the foot is yours — RAMS are among the fifteen documents whose wording you set in Settings
- There is an approval block with a name, a role and a date, and it can carry a signature
- On the Usage plan a RAMS PDF is a commercial document, so it carries the per-document rate. On the Seat plan nothing is metered
Section 03What goes wrong
Every one of these has cost somebody real time. They are cheap to avoid and expensive to unwind.
This is the most common failure. It shows the moment somebody reads the method statement against the building they are standing in.
They are different jobs with different hazards. There is a separate fire stopping template for exactly this reason.
The disclaimer is editable because it should say what your business stands behind, not what a software company drafted.
It is a plan for the work. Competence is a separate question, and the document does not answer it.
Section 04Questions
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Can we edit the template?
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Does the client see it?
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Is the fire stopping RAMS different?
Section 05Related
Guides help. Doing it helps more.
Everything above is checkable inside the trial, on a real building, with nothing held back and no card required.
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