Templates · Painting & Decorating
On sale · 6 documents · £19 eachPainting and decorating RAMS template
Decorating looks like the lowest-risk trade on site until you list what is actually happening: solvent vapour in unventilated rooms, spray application that puts everyone else out of the area, and — on anything pre-1980 — the real possibility of disturbing lead paint. Access is nearly always steps, podiums or towers, so that belongs in the method too.
6 documents, one price each. Helmet colours vary from site to site. This is a common convention, not a legal standard.
Written for this
6 documents, one per activity.
A document per activity rather than one per trade, so what you send describes the work you are actually doing.
What comes with every document
The same six things come with a single document or the whole library.
Fill it your way
Guided PDFs with a tooltip on every field, or complete it online. Type your site once and every document in the pack opens with it filled in.
Your logo on every page
Upload it once. It prints at the top of every page of every document you download, included with any purchase.
The law, cited
Each document shows the regulation it rests on. Check our working.
Yours to keep
No subscription, no login, no expiry. Revisions included.
Written from the approving side
By a contractor who reviews subcontractor submissions, and sends them back.
Kept current, free
Every source is re-checked monthly. A change that matters raises a revision, and you get it free.
How it works
Four steps, in this order.
- 1
Choose
A single document, a bundle for one hazard, or a pack for your trade or sector. Pay once.
- 2
Enter your site once
Site, reference, address, client, principal contractor. Every document in the pack opens with them filled in.
- 3
Add your logo
Upload it once. It prints at the top of every page of every document you download.
- 4
Download it finished
Filled, flattened, licensed to your business. When the law moves, the revision is free.
Legal basis
What these documents are built on.
Printed on the forms themselves, so you and whoever reviews your submission are reading the same references. Law and guidance are kept apart, because they are not the same thing.
Statutory provisions
- HSWA 1974 s.2(2)(a)
- MHSWR 1999 regs 3 and 5
- COSHH 2002 paints, solvents and preparation dusts
- Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002
- Work at Height Regulations 2005
- CDM 2015 regs 13 and 15
Guidance and standards relied on — not law
- ACOP L132 (3rd edition, 2002) lead in pre-1980s coatings
HSE guidance, British Standards and industry codes are not statute and carry no force in themselves — they are the standard the document is built to. And citing an instrument is not the same as satisfying it: what discharges the duty is a competent person in your business assessing this job and completing the document properly.
Our one rule
We will not tell you this makes you compliant.
No template can. HSE says it of its own examples: “Do not just copy an example and put your company name to it as that would not satisfy the law and would not protect your employees.” SSIP assessors want risk assessments written for a specific project within the last twelve months, and a generic document with your logo on it is unlikely to pass, whoever sold it to you.
What you are buying is the structure and the prompts — every section the law and HSE guidance expect the document to address, with the reference beside it. The judgement stays yours.
Why we don’t say “compliant”Before you buy
Will the main contractor accept it?
No template can promise that, and we won’t. It is written from the approving side of the desk, but your competent person adapts it to the job and signs it off. That step is what makes it yours.
Is VAT included in the price?
No. Prices are ex VAT; VAT is added at checkout.
What format is it?
A fillable PDF with a tooltip on every field. Or complete it online: type your site once and it downloads finished, with your logo on every page.
What happens when the law changes?
Every source is re-checked monthly. A change that matters raises a revision, and you get it free.
Is it a subscription?
No. Pay once. No subscription, no login, no expiry.