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AI method statement generator for site-specific RAMS, built from your job and your site

A method statement that could belong to any job helps nobody on site. Principal contractors send them back, and operatives stop reading them. A useful RAMS describes this task, at this location, in the order it will actually be done, with the hazards and controls that belong to it.

Name it a method statement or RAMS in your brief and INKFLOW works from guidance for construction safety documents written around the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. It asks for what that guidance needs, including the project and its dutyholders, the exact scope, the sequence of work, the site-specific hazards, permits, competence, and the emergency and rescue arrangements.

It writes from what you send. A load, an exclusion zone or an inspection date it has not been given becomes a marked placeholder, not an assumption. The draft is for your competent person to check against the site and approve, and it does not replace a site visit, a lifting plan by an appointed person, or a permit to work.

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Drafting construction RAMS step by step

  1. 1
    Pin down the task
    One job, one location, a start and an end. Say what is excluded, so a RAMS for installing curtain walling does not quietly cover the scaffold as well.
  2. 2
    Write the sequence as the gang will do it
    From arriving on site to handing over, in order. Add the plant, the access equipment and the substances each stage uses.
  3. 3
    Attach the site information
    Pre-construction information, the asbestos survey, service drawings, the permit list and the principal contractor's risk matrix, so the risk ratings follow the method they require.
  4. 4
    Brief the crew on the approved version
    Once your competent person has checked and signed it, brief the operatives and record that they understood. Revise it whenever the job changes.

What a construction method statement must show

Dutyholders named
Client, principal designer, principal contractor and contractor, as CDM 2015 defines those roles, named correctly for this project.
The hierarchy for work at height
Where work at height cannot be avoided, the draft sets out the access chosen and why safer options were not reasonably practicable, as the Work at Height Regulations 2005 expect.
Lifts left to the appointed person
The method refers to your lifting plan; it does not plan the lift. Under LOLER 1998 a lifting operation must be planned by a competent person.
Controls tied to the step
Dust, noise, vibration, hazardous substances and live services are dealt with at the step where they arise, with COSHH and safety data sheet references taken from your material.
Rescue as well as emergency
A plan for getting someone down from height or out of a confined space, not just a phone number for the nearest hospital.

Method statements, risk assessments and SWMS: what this covers

A RAMS pairs a risk assessment for the task with the method statement for doing it. This route drafts both, for construction work. It is not for a general workplace risk assessment or a fire risk assessment of a building, which need a competent assessor to look at the premises; INKFLOW cannot do that from a brief.

A safe work method statement, or SWMS, is the Australian term for a document required for high-risk construction work under the work health and safety laws there. The guidance INKFLOW uses for this document is written around UK practice. You can ask for a SWMS, but name your state or territory and check the draft against your regulator's requirements and the principal contractor's template; we cannot promise it meets them.

Questions

Will a principal contractor accept the RAMS?
Acceptance is theirs to decide. A draft that names this job, this site and their own rating method gives them less to send back, but your competent person must check it first.
Does it know the hazards on my site?
Only those you tell it about. It has not seen the site. Anything missing from your pre-construction information will be missing from the draft or marked as a gap.
Can it revise a method statement when the job changes?
Yes. Upload the current version to have it revised, with a note of what has changed on site.
Is this safety or legal advice?
No. It is a written draft from your information. Responsibility for the safety of the work stays with the dutyholders and their competent people.
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Describe the job. We will draft the RAMS.

Tell us what it is for, and it is written to the standard. In the free sample, any figure that must come from your own material is left as a marked placeholder.

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