Write a professional RAMS in minutes — not hours

Every RAMS has two halves, and Complys writes both. The risk assessment lists the hazards of the task with the controls, PPE, legislation and emergency procedures that manage them. The method statement sets out how the work is done — the sequence of works, plant and equipment, and who’s responsible for what. Both are drafted from a template for your trade, then you edit anything before saving.

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   Start from a template

   From Health & Safety → Build RAMS, pick a template for your trade. Complys shows the ones matched to your sector first. You can also start from one of your own saved templates.

   What you’ll see: Templates matched to your trade and sector, or the option to see all templates.
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   Fill in the job details

   Add the document title, project or site name, client name and site address, and pick the site type (domestic, commercial, industrial, roadside/highway, woodland, and so on). These print on the cover sheet.

   What you’ll see: These become the cover of your PDF.
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   Add the site context

   Record the parts that matter for compliance: a separate principal contractor under CDM 2015 if there is one; infrastructure work such as Network Rail (with the ARC cover sheet); your first-aid arrangements and qualified first-aider; and the site team and supervisor named in the RAMS.

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   Describe the activity and generate

   Write what the work involves in plain terms and generate. Complys drafts the full risk assessment and method statement from your description. Generation uses credits — you see the cost before you confirm.

   What you’ll see: A confirmation showing the credit cost and your balance before and after.
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   Review the risk assessment

   Check the hazards, PPE required, legislation, emergency procedures and supervisor requirements. Click any part to edit it — nothing is locked.

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   Review the method statement

   Check the description of works, plant & equipment, PPE, legislation and safety responsibilities, edit as needed, and save. Your RAMS is now in your library as a professional PDF.

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   Attach supporting documents

   Add COSHH sheets, plant certificates, insurances or drawings so the whole pack travels together.

   What you’ll see: Prompted right after saving: “Attach supporting documents now?”
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   Get your team to sign off on site

   Workers sign off the RAMS via a QR code or sign-off link, so you have a record that the briefing happened before work started.

   What you’ll see: A sign-off QR code and per-worker signatures stored on the document.
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   Share it with the client or principal contractor

   Send the RAMS by email or a share link straight from the document. If they come back with comments, use Apply feedback to revise and reissue.

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   Link it to a project, or build a pack

   Attach the RAMS to a project, or promote it into a RAMS pack with a reusable cover sheet (including Network Rail ARC format) when you’re submitting several documents together.

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   Save it as a template

   Turn a finished RAMS into your own template so the next similar job starts 90% done.

If you take RAMS in from subbies, Complys reviews them for you. Sub-RAMS Check reads a subcontractor’s RAMS and returns a clear Pass, Borderline or Fail verdict with specific findings — so you know what’s missing before you accept it. And Modernise a RAMS rewrites a dated or weak RAMS into the gold-standard format.