RAMS Template
RAMS template — a free risk assessment and method statement generator laid out the way a principal contractor reads it: the job and the sequence of work first, then the risk assessment underneath — hazard, possible risks, required control measures — with the mandatory PPE and the emergency arrangements to settle before work starts. Pick a quick start for the kind of job (MEWP work, working at height, electrical installation, plumbing and heating, general site work) and the whole pack fills in for you to adapt to the site. Free, no sign-up, no account. A competent person prepares it; we supply the form.
1 The job
2 Method statement — the sequence of work, in order
3 Plant, PPE, competence and permits
4 Risk assessment — hazard, possible risks, required control measures; rate likelihood × severity
5 Emergency arrangements — before work starts, one line each
6 Prepared and approved by
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Search 'rams template free' and page one is HSE's risk assessment template (no method statement), two Word files from a software vendor, five PDFs from an AI-writing app, a consultancy's email-gated download, a CRM sign-up form and two apps that need an account. Nothing on the page produces the two documents together, from one set of details, without a login.
This form does it the other way round. Pick the job type and the pack fills in: what the job is, the sequence of work, the plant and PPE, the hazards with their possible risks and required control measures, the emergency arrangements. Then you adapt it to the site — that is the work a competent person actually does. One PDF, the method first and the risks underneath, free.
Pick the job type, describe the job, adapt the hazards, sign
Quick start, then the job
MEWP work, working at height, electrical installation, plumbing and heating, or general site work. The description, personnel, minimum competence, plant, PPE, steps, hazards and emergency arrangements fill in. Replace the [brackets] in the description with what you are actually doing, add the site, client, dates and who is at risk.
The method, then the risks
The sequence of work is a numbered list — edit, add or remove steps. Underneath, the risk table: each hazard with the possible risks (who might be harmed and how) and the required control measures, rated likelihood × severity on the 5×5 matrix. Add hazards from the library or your own.
PPE, emergencies, sign
Mandatory PPE one item per line (it prints as mandatory-sign chips); the competence cards for who is doing the work; permits, welfare, the nearest A&E and the emergency arrangements to settle before work starts. Sign on screen; the print carries the approval statement over a record-of-briefing table for the crew to sign. Free PDF; the editable Word version and your logo unlock with an email.
The risk assessment is the legal bit; the method statement is what clients ask for
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (regulation 3) require every employer and self-employed person to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risks to their workers and to anyone else affected by the work, and to record the significant findings where five or more people are employed. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 require contractors to plan, manage and monitor their work so it is carried out without risk. Neither names a 'method statement' — it is the industry's standard way of showing how the work will be done safely, and principal contractors and clients ask for one with the risk assessment: the RAMS.
A RAMS is written for a specific task on a specific site by someone competent to assess it, briefed to the people doing the work, and reviewed when the work, the site or the people change. This page describes the mechanism; it is not health-and-safety advice.
Everything the six sections record
Five job types, filled in as a starting point
MEWP work
Scissor lift or boom: unsuitable equipment, untrained operator, defective machine, falls and ejection, entrapment, ground, overloading, weather, traffic, falling tools, overhead lines, rescue, unauthorised use — with the IPAF competence line and the ground-rescue emergency list.
Working at height
Towers, ladders and roofs: falls, fragile surfaces, falling tools, overhead lines, weather, handling the kit, the public.
Electrical installation
Dead working and proving dead, hidden cables, asbestos, dust, height, handling, an occupied house, fire — with the isolation sequence in the method.
Plumbing and heating
Hot work, scalding, electricity near water, asbestos lagging, handling, legionella, lofts and voids, water damage. Gas work is outside it.
Sits with the permits, the COSHH sheets and the toolbox talk
The RAMS is written first; the COSHH assessment covers the substances in it; the permit to work checks its controls on the day; the toolbox talk briefs the crew. FieldHive has a free form for each — and the standalone risk assessment and method statement generators if you only need one half.
A competent person prepares it. We supply the form.
This tool lays the pack out, does the matrix arithmetic and prints it. It does not assess your site, it does not know your task, and the hazard library is a starting point in FieldHive's wording — not a list of the hazards on your job. The person who signs Part A is responsible for the assessment being suitable and sufficient. None of this is health-and-safety advice.
The FieldHive app does not produce RAMS. This is a free standalone form. The PDF is free with no sign-up; the editable Word version and the logo upload unlock with an email.
Turn it into a connected job workflow
FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected — so it's built from the accepted quote instead of retyped, and the numbers carry through.
Other free tools for your trade
More FieldHive document tools — and the calculators behind the figures.
Permit to Work Template
The same-day check that the RAMS controls are in place — general, height, confined space or electrical.
issue the permit →Electrical Isolation Certificate
Each isolation point with its lock and notice, proving dead recorded, four sign-offs. One page.
record the isolation →Construction COSHH Assessment Template
One sheet per substance — the hazards, routes and controls for what the RAMS brings on site.
assess the substances →Method Statement Generator
Part B on its own, when the client already has your risk assessment.
write the method statement →RAMS questions
Quick answers to the questions people ask most.
The RAMS is one document in the job
A RAMS pack is written for one task on one job. FieldHive keeps the enquiry, quote, job, invoice and payment connected for that customer — the RAMS is the one thing it leaves to you.
