Best RAMS Software UK (2026)

RAMS software automates the creation of Risk Assessment and Method Statement documents for construction, security, and other high-risk industries. Instead of writing documents from scratch or filling in generic templates, RAMS software uses pre-built hazard libraries, legislation databases, or AI to draft documents in a fraction of the time.

RAMS stands for Risk Assessment and Method Statement. The risk assessment lists the hazards of a job, who could be harmed and the controls that reduce the risk. The method statement sets out, step by step, how the work will be done safely with those controls in place. Together they are the document a principal contractor or client asks for before you start work.

The risk assessment part is. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers and the self-employed to assess the risks of their work, and employers with five or more employees must record the significant findings. No law requires a method statement by name, but CDM 2015 requires contractors to plan, manage and monitor their work, and principal contractors and clients usually ask for a RAMS before work starts.

A good RAMS covers the job and site details, each significant hazard, who is at risk, the control measures, and the risk rating before and after those controls. It then sets out the method step by step, the PPE required, emergency procedures including the nearest A&E, the legislation that applies, a review date, and sign-off by the manager and by everyone doing the work.

Describe the job and the site, identify the hazards, decide the controls for each one, and write the method as numbered steps. Add PPE, emergency arrangements and the relevant legislation. A competent person then reviews and approves it, and the crew is briefed and signs it before work starts. You can write it from scratch in Word, fill in a template, build it from a hazard library, or have AI RAMS software draft it from your description for you to review.

Not always by law, but usually in practice. For simple, low-risk tasks the risk assessment may be enough. For higher-risk or complex work, such as work at height, lifting operations or hot works, a method statement shows how the controls are actually put into practice on site. That is why principal contractors usually ask for both, combined as a RAMS.

It depends on how many RAMS you write. For one job a month, the free plans from RAMS AI, The Site Book and RAMS Pro are enough. If you write RAMS most weeks and also need COSHH, Safe Systems of Work, manual handling or HAVs, swiftRMS Pro is £49 a month for unlimited documents, with a 14-day free trial and no card needed. The AI drafts the hazards, controls and legislation, so your competent person spends their time reviewing rather than writing.

For standard construction and security tasks, RAMS software like swiftRMS can replace the consultant for document generation. However, for complex or novel projects, high-risk CDM-notifiable work, or when a client specifically requires a named consultant, external expertise may still be appropriate. Many contractors use software for routine RAMS and consultants for complex projects.

It can be, once reviewed. swiftRMS cites the UK legislation that applies, including CDM 2015, HASAWA 1974, COSHH 2002, PUWER 1998 and trade-specific regulations, and drafts task-specific hazards and control measures rather than generic boilerplate. Whether a RAMS is suitable and sufficient depends on your site and task, so a competent person must review, edit where needed and approve it before it's used.

Most of them now. RAMS AI lets operatives sign by QR code or email link, RAMS Pro lets any number of engineers sign by email or QR code on every plan, and The Site Book has workers sign off on their phone. In swiftRMS, workers on your roster scan the QR code on the document, read it and sign with no login, on the Business plan (up to 50 workers), and you get a sign-off register of who signed and when.

RAMS software like swiftRMS costs £49/month for unlimited documents. An external H&S consultant charges £300-500+ per document. For a contractor producing 10 RAMS per month, software saves over £47,000 per year compared to consultant fees.