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Groundworks RAMS & Method Statement
Groundworks RAMS carry the highest consequence risks on most sites - excavation collapse, buried services and plant / pedestrian interface. Principal Contractors expect to see service drawings, a permit to dig and a named temporary works arrangement, not a paragraph saying trenches will be battered back.
Groundworks & Civils
Groundworks RAMS Pack
Risk assessment and method statement for groundworks.
- ✓ Full method statement, mobilisation to handover
- ✓ Traffic-light risk assessment, groundworks specific
- ✓ COSHH, PPE, permits, emergency procedures
- ✓ Editable Word document, your branding
Groundworks Contractor Project Pack
The full pack Principal Contractors want to see.
- ✓ Everything in the RAMS Pack
- ✓ Registers, competency matrix, ITP, toolbox talks
- ✓ 19 appendices, incl. real inspection forms
- ✓ O&M, QA sign-off, submission checklist
Risk assessment
Hazards covered for groundworks
Every hazard below is assessed with likelihood, severity and residual risk after controls, presented in the traffic-light format Principal Contractors expect.
- ✓ Collapse of excavation sides and burial of persons
- ✓ Contact with buried services - electricity, gas, water, telecoms
- ✓ Plant and pedestrian interface, reversing and blind spots
- ✓ Falls of persons or plant into open excavations
- ✓ Underground obstructions, contaminated ground and made ground
- ✓ Water ingress, flooding and unstable saturated ground
- ✓ Noise, vibration and silica dust from breaking and cutting
Method statement
Sequence of work
The method statement follows the real on-site sequence, with controls tied to each step rather than listed separately at the end.
- Service search, drawing review, CAT and Genny scan and trial holes
- Permit to dig issued and exclusion zones established
- Temporary works design for support, battering or benching
- Excavation in agreed sequence with support installed progressively
- Daily inspection and recording before each shift
- Backfill, compaction in layers and reinstatement
- Permanent edge protection or covering of any excavation left open
Competency
Cards and qualifications referenced
The competency matrix in the Contractor Project Pack is pre-populated with the qualifications a Principal Contractor will ask to see for this trade.
- ✓ CPCS or NPORS card for each item of plant operated
- ✓ Temporary works coordinator appointment
- ✓ Excavation supervisor with confined space awareness where applicable
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