RAMS · Lone Working
RAMS for Lone Working
A combined Risk Assessment & Method Statement, the site-ready document a principal contractor or client asks for before you start. Below: what a RAMS for lone working must contain, why they get rejected, and the hazards it has to cover, or generate one for your exact job in a couple of minutes.
What a compliant RAMS must contain
- A hazard table with a likelihood × severity score before and after controls
- Controls in the correct hierarchy (eliminate → substitute → engineering → admin → PPE last)
- A numbered, step-by-step method statement for the actual task
- PPE to BS EN standards, emergency arrangements, and an operative sign-off
Why a RAMS for lone working gets rejected
- Residual risk dropped from high to low on PPE or 'competent operatives' alone
- Generic hazards that could apply to any job
- No method statement, or one too vague to follow on site
- The wrong legal basis cited (e.g. 'CDM 2015 requires a RAMS')
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Lone working, meaning work carried out without close or direct supervision: service calls, maintenance visits, surveys, out-of-hours and remote site work, brings hazards a RAMS has to address:
- no reliable means of raising the alarm, and no one checking that the person got home
- violence or aggression from members of the public or occupants (HSE INDG73)
- a medical emergency or injury with nobody present to summon help
- tasks that must never be done alone being done alone anyway: confined space entry, live electrical work, working at height
- no check-in procedure, or one that relies on mobile signal that does not exist on site
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Do you need a RAMS for lone working?
A combined Risk Assessment & Method Statement, the site-ready document a principal contractor or client asks for before you start. For lone working, meaning work carried out without close or direct supervision: service calls, maintenance visits, surveys, out-of-hours and remote site work, it is the document a client, principal contractor or inspector expects to see, grounded in MHSWR 1999 reg 3 (HSE): the combined risk assessment + method statement contractors submit.
What makes a RAMS for lone working fail?
The usual reasons: Residual risk dropped from high to low on PPE or 'competent operatives' alone; Generic hazards that could apply to any job; No method statement, or one too vague to follow on site. RAMSReady generates one to the correct published form and avoids these.
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A couple of minutes. Describe the job, and RAMSReady writes a RAMS for your exact lone working live against the correct standard, with a review date and a sign-off/records section.