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Surveying work area
Planned work, controlled risk
Preparation, review and management of Risk Assessments and Method Statements, alongside construction health and safety management and site support.
Service focus
Written for the person holding the tool.
A RAMS that reads well in a document system and fails on site is the most common failure in construction safety, and it is entirely predictable from the document alone.
In the field
What we address
Construction risk is concentrated in a small number of task types. The planning work below is aimed at those, and at the interfaces between trades where risk is usually lost.
Worked through the sequence of operations with the people who will perform it, so the hazards are the ones actually present rather than the ones the template lists.
A method statement is a sequence, a set of controls and a set of hold points. Reviewed as all three, including what happens when a step cannot be completed.
The client and principal contractor duties under the CDM Regulations, and the coordination between everyone the project brings with them.
Presence on site while the work happens, because the plan and the practice diverge at a predictable moment and it is usually visible on the day.
What comes back
Each of these is an artefact a crew, a planner and an inspector can all use, rather than a document only one of them understands.
Hazards, controls and residual risk per step of the sequence, written in language the person doing the work will use.
The order of work, the controls at each stage, the hold points and what happens if a step cannot proceed.
Where the task depends on a permit, an isolation or a clearance, that dependency is stated rather than left in someone's head.
What we checked, what we could not check, and what we would want to see on site before the work starts.
Reviewed with the crew
The people who will execute the task are the ones who can tell you whether the sequence works. A RAMS never written past the site office is a guess.
Our approach
Starting from a template produces a document. Starting from the work produces a plan. The order matters more than the format.
Step 01
1On site, with the crew who will do it. What is the actual sequence, what plant is used, what is below and beside the work, and what happens if it goes wrong.
Step 02
2Break the task into the order operations actually happen in. Most hazards live in the transitions between steps, not inside them.
Step 03
3Controls at the point of use, in the order the work runs, rather than a general list at the end nobody reads before starting.
Step 04
4Brief it with the crew, watch the first attempt, and change the plan where the practice shows it was wrong. That revision is the real deliverable.
How this is bought
Usually per task or per phase, so the effort follows the work rather than the calendar.
Engagement model
Project engagement
A defined problem, a defined scope and a defined set of deliverables, with a clear finish line.
What it includes
Scope and limits
Construction safety sits on statutory duties that cannot be transferred to a consultant, however good the RAMS is.
Before you instruct us
The questions that come up about this service specifically, answered without a sales call attached.
Not as a document. The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 place planning duties on the client, designers, principal contractor and contractors, and HSE guidance expects risk assessment and a safe system of work. In practice a RAMS is how that is normally evidenced — the document is the proof, not the requirement. Check the current position for your project with a competent adviser.
Where this sits
Most engagements touch more than one of these. The combinations below are the ones that actually occur, rather than every service linked to every other.
Related services
Underlying expertise
Not sure which service this is?
Describe the risk, the objective or the transition creating the pressure and we will tell you honestly whether it needs a service at all.
AI-assisted support
Our AI safety tools can turn an activity description into a structured starting framework for hazards, controls and review priorities, so the gaps get found earlier. It has not walked the platform — which is exactly why the site visit is the part that matters.
How we approach responsible AI00 core capabilities, 3 intended outcomes
Built around Risk Assessment preparation
Start a conversation
Tell us what rams & construction needs to cover — the activity, the obligation, the deadline or the gap. We will scope it in writing before any work begins.
Clear scope. Practical next steps.