Guide
Safety plan template
A safety plan template is a place to write how you will run health and safety, not the hazard lines for one task. Those lines belong in the risk assessment. The sequence belongs in the method statement.
What to put in it
Name who is responsible, how each job is assessed, what training the work needs, how plant is checked, where the safety data sheets are, what welfare exists on this site, and how someone stops the job. First aid is written once on the sheet below, not as a line on every hazard. If you employ five or more people, regulation 5 of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 requires the arrangements to be recorded.
A construction project may also need a construction phase plan under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015. Do not use this sheet as that plan. The hazard lines for one task belong in that task's RAMS, not in this template.
No law requires a document called a RAMS. The duty is to assess risk under the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, regulation 3, and to plan the work safely.
Library entries on RAMSPack are marked draft – awaiting competent review. The sheet on this page is blank until you fill it in. It is not HSE approved.
Safety plan sheet
This is the general arrangements for the business or the job, not the hazard lines for one task. First aid is recorded here, once, under the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981.
Business: ____________________
Address of the work: ____________________
Who is responsible for health and safety on this job: ____________________
How risks are assessed, and where that record is kept: ____________________
Training the work needs: ____________________
How plant is checked before use: ____________________
Where the safety data sheets are: ____________________
Welfare on this site: ____________________
First aid and the nearest A&E: ____________________
How a worker stops the job: ____________________
If you employ five or more people, the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require these arrangements to be recorded. This sheet is not a construction phase plan and it is not a RAMS.
Generate a RAMS for the job this plan should point to