You are asked for the same things on every job, usually at short notice and usually by someone who will not let you on site without them. A risk assessment and method statement for the activity. A COSHH assessment for the products you are carrying. Evidence of training and competence for the people doing the work. Once a year, an assessment body asks for the same material again in a different format.
Why generic templates get sent back
We sit on the receiving end of this. The documents that come back marked up almost always fail for one of four reasons, and none of them is spelling.
It describes a different job. The method statement talks about a warehouse when the work is in an occupied ward. Nothing in it shows the writer knew where the work was happening.
The controls do not match the hazards listed. Working at height is identified, then the controls say "operatives to take care". A reviewer reads that as a form filled in rather than a risk assessed.
The sequence is missing. A method statement is meant to say what happens in what order, who does it, and what has to be true before the next step starts. A list of precautions is not a method.
Nobody competent signed it. An unsigned document, or one signed by someone with no stated competence for that activity, tells the reviewer nothing.
What an assessment body wants
SSIP-recognised schemes — CHAS, SafeContractor, Constructionline, SMAS and the rest — look for risk assessments prepared for specific projects, current within the last twelve months, showing that a competent person assessed the actual work. A generic document with a logo on it does not satisfy that, whoever sold it to you.
What we give you
A document per activity, not per trade — so the RAMS you send is about the work you are actually doing. Each one is structured to what the law and HSE guidance expect it to cover, with the regulation behind each section printed on the form so you and the reviewer can both check it. Every field carries a tooltip explaining what belongs in it.
What you supply is the part only you can: the site, the sequence, the people, the plant, and the controls your competent person decides are right for that job. That is the work the law requires of you, and no document can do it for you.
Certain activities are gated. Where a statutory competence applies — gas pipework, refrigerant handling, licensed asbestos work, high-voltage systems — that requirement is stated on the first page, because a document does not make anyone competent to do the work.
Any single document is £19 + VAT; the whole RAMS library is £399 + VAT, with every future revision free.