RAMS · Site Traffic Management
RAMS for Site Traffic Management
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 site traffic management 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 site traffic management 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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Site traffic management — vehicle routes, deliveries, loading and unloading, and keeping people and vehicles apart on site — brings hazards a RAMS has to address:
- reversing vehicles — consistently among the largest causes of workplace transport deaths, which is why routes should be planned to avoid reversing rather than manage it
- no physical separation of pedestrians and vehicles, or crossing points that put people in blind spots
- loading and unloading with people in the danger zone, and unsecured or unevenly distributed loads
- the site entrance and public highway interface, including mud, sightlines and pedestrians passing the gate
- traffic routes designed once and never revisited as the site and its deliveries change (CDM 2015 reg 27)
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Do you need a RAMS for site traffic management?
A combined Risk Assessment & Method Statement — the site-ready document a principal contractor or client asks for before you start. For site traffic management — vehicle routes, deliveries, loading and unloading, and keeping people and vehicles apart on site — 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 site traffic management 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 site traffic management live against the correct standard — with a review date and a sign-off/records section.