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A risk assessment and method statement in one form, written on a phone or laptop and sent as one PDF. Choose the type of work and the hazards, cards, plant, permits and PPE offered match your trade. Pick a hazard and the controls box fills with HSE based suggestions for you to edit. Score each hazard before and after further action, write the sequence of work step by step with hold points and working heights measured from a photo, record permits, first aid and the rescue plan, collect each crew member's signature at the briefing, and have an approver sign. The approval page counts what still has to be resolved before work starts. Try the form below, see every question or open a completed example.
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A RAMS template records the job, the crew and their competence, each hazard with its controls and a before-and-after risk score, the sequence of work with the controls and hold points at each step, plant, substances, PPE, permits, emergency and rescue arrangements, the briefing with crew signatures, and approval and review. Choosing the type of work tailors the lists to the trade; the structure and the checks stay the same.
Last updated . Facts checked by the SiteSurvey team on 23 October 2026 against regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, HSE on construction health and safety paperwork, CDM 2015, regulation 2 (construction work), CDM 2015, regulation 15 (contractors), CDM 2015, regulation 20 (demolition or dismantling), Work at Height Regulations 2005, regulation 4, Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, regulation 14, Confined Spaces Regulations 1997, regulation 4 and HSE GS6, Avoiding danger from overhead power lines.
Roof renewal, hazard 1, work at height: the suggested controls are edited to name the perimeter scaffold, the hoist and the rooflight covers. Scored 15 (high) with the controls already in place, further action is the scaffold handover and tag check as a hold point, and the residual score is 5 (medium). The approval page counts nothing outstanding once the crew have signed and the approver has.
Fictional example. Record the actual evidence and approved arrangements for your job.
Leaving the suggested controls as they were filled in. They describe the hazard in general, not this site, this access and this crew. Do not mark the RAMS approved while the approval page still counts points to resolve.
Brief the crew from the form and collect their signatures before work starts. Review the RAMS when the method, crew, equipment or conditions change, and keep the previous revision when the sequence is updated.
Risk assessment and method statement in one form, so the hazards, the controls and the step-by-step method are checked against each other before anyone signs. Choose the type of work and the lists match your trade. Pick a hazard and the controls fill in from HSE guidance for you to edit. The approval page counts what still has to be resolved.
One question on the first page, type of work, changes the hazards, cards, plant, access, permits, PPE and review triggers offered on every later page. A roofer sees fragile roofs and hot works; an electrician sees live working and ECS cards; an events crew sees rigging and crowds. Choose Other to see everything.
Choose a hazard and the controls box fills with standard controls written from HSE guidance for it. Edit them to this site, this access and this crew, and the form leaves your words alone from then on, even if you change the hazard.
For a step at height, photograph the building with a door in the same plane and tap both ends. The height goes into the step with the marked-up photo and feeds the highest working height on the sequence page. It works on web forms in any phone browser today, and the app version is on its way.
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The approval page counts what would stop the work: no hazards recorded, a hazard still rated high after its further action, crew not briefed, fewer signatures than crew, a hot works step with no permit, work at height with no rescue plan, possible asbestos with no survey reference, a substance with no COSHH reference, a card expiring before the start, or no approver.
How calculated fields work →The optional Walk Cam walk-round films the access route, the work area, the edges and hold points, and welfare and first aid, with a guided prompt at each point. What you say is turned into text, so the release before the next step is on video.
A hot works step in the sequence makes the form ask for the hot works permit on the permits page and raises a red note if none is recorded. The fire point itself is filmed at the hold point each morning before the torch is lit.
A fictional roofing job: renewing the felt roof covering on a school sports hall during half term. Nine hazards with suggested controls edited to the job, two scored high before the scaffold and rooflight covers brought them down, six steps with three hold points, the eaves height measured from a photo, a labourer under supervision, three COSHH references, a hot works permit, a rescue plan, four crew signatures and an approval by the health and safety manager.
Answer a few questions and watch it adapt. Your answers are not saved, and any photos you add are deleted within the hour.
This is the real form as your team would use it: questions appear as you answer, scores work themselves out and you can add photos and signatures. No sign-up needed. Or open a completed example to see every answer, photo and score filled in.
Want to see one filled in? See a completed RAMS report (PDF), made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit.
One document for the job: hazards with suggested controls and 1 to 5 scores, the sequence of work with hold points, crew cards and competence, plant, COSHH, permits, emergency and rescue, briefing signatures and approval. Tailored to construction, electrical, AV and IT, roofing, facilities, events or grounds work. 8 sections and 143 questions. Follow-up questions and guidance appear only when an answer calls for them, so the person on site never sees the ones that do not apply.
This is a starting point, not a fixed form. Once it is in your SiteSurvey account you can reword any question, add or remove questions, sections and answer options, and add your own logo, so it fits the way your team works and the jobs you do.
Add this form to a project in SiteSurvey and it fills in what the project already knows, so nobody on site retypes it and every form on the job uses the same names. Anything filled in can still be changed.
Mark the work area so the crew and the approver can find it.
Tailors the hazards, cards, plant, permits and PPE offered on the following pages.
What is and is not included.
Suggested from HSE guidance when you choose the hazard. Edit it so it describes this job.
Optional. Film a guided walk-through on the SiteSurvey app.
Measure it from a photo with a known reference, or enter it from a tape or drawing.
How a person who has fallen or is stranded is brought down, by whom, and with what equipment.
A completed RAMS report, made by SiteSurvey from a fictional site visit: every answer, the photos, the guidance that applied and the sign-off, ready to send as a PDF.
RAMS stands for risk assessment and method statement. It is the name used across construction and the trades for the two documents together, not a term from the law. The legal duty is the risk assessment: every employer must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to employees and to others affected by the work, under regulation 3 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, and an employer with five or more employees must record the significant findings. HSE says method statements are not required by law for most work, although clients and principal contractors ask for them, and under CDM 2015 regulation 20 the arrangements for demolition or dismantling must be written down before the work begins.
Because the person reading it, usually a principal contractor or client, wants one document that shows the hazards, the controls and the step-by-step method together. Keeping them in one form also lets the form check them against each other: a hot works step with no hot works permit, work at height with no rescue plan, a hazard still rated high after the further action, or possible asbestos with no survey reference all appear in the count of points to resolve on the approval page. If you already keep the two documents apart, our separate risk assessment template and method statement template are still in the library.
The first page asks what type of work the RAMS is for: construction and building, electrical and M&E, AV, IT and data cabling, roofing, scaffolding and work at height, facilities, cleaning and maintenance, events, exhibitions and staging, or grounds, landscaping and tree work. That answer changes the lists on the later pages. A roofer sees fragile roofs, hot works and a roof access permit; an electrician sees live working, ECS and 18th Edition cards and electrical isolation; an events crew sees temporary structures, rigging competence and crowds at build and breakdown; a grounds team sees chainsaws, overhead lines and chainsaw PPE. Choose Other to see every option. The document structure, the scoring and the checks are the same for every trade.
When you pick a hazard from the list, the controls box fills with a short paragraph of standard controls written from HSE guidance for that hazard: for example, for work at height it suggests avoiding it where the job can be done from the ground, using a tower, MEWP or scaffold with guardrails before ladders, checking the equipment and planning the rescue. They are a starting point, not a finished answer. Edit them so they describe this job, this site and this crew. Once you have edited the text the form leaves it alone, even if you change the hazard.
Usually yes. Regulation 2 of CDM 2015 defines construction work to include the installation, commissioning, maintenance, repair or removal of mechanical, electrical, gas, compressed air, hydraulic, telecommunications, computer or similar services that are normally fixed within or to a structure. Installing containment, cabling, displays or a distribution board on a client's premises is construction work, so the client, designer and contractor duties apply, a construction phase plan is needed before the site is set up, and under regulation 15 a contractor must not appoint anyone without the skills, knowledge, training and experience for the work. The form shows this note when you choose electrical, AV and IT or facilities work and asks for the construction phase plan reference.
Each hazard gets a likelihood and a severity from 1 to 5, and the form multiplies them. 1 to 4 is low, 5 to 12 is medium and 15 to 25 is high. A medium or high score opens the further action, what kind of control it is, who will do it, the date it is needed by and a residual score once the action is done. The form flags a further action that does not lower the score, a residual score still at 15 or more, and personal protective equipment chosen as the control, because PPE is the last option in HSE's order of controls. Scoring is a common way to rank hazards, but it is not required by law and the bands are this form's own.
The RAMS is normally written by the person planning the work, such as a supervisor, contracts manager or the business owner, with the people who will do the work involved because they know the practical problems. It should then be checked by someone other than the author, usually the manager responsible for the work or a health and safety adviser, before it is used. The form records the author's and the approver's names, dates and signatures, flags a missing approver, and warns if the approval date is after the start date. The crew sign at the briefing, and the form warns if fewer people have signed than are on the crew.
Yes. In the SiteSurvey app the form works offline, including the crew signatures, photos and the step-by-step sequence, and syncs when the phone is back online. The GPS position of the work area and the assembly point, and measuring a working height from a photo, are web features at the moment. The finished RAMS goes out as a branded PDF report or as a link that the principal contractor or client can open without a login.
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