Best Method Statement Software for Contractors

HandsHQ builds each RAMS from a library of pre-written activities and sequences of operations, grouped by trade. That suits a contractor who would rather assemble a document from known content than start from a blank page. Basic costs £44 a month excluding VAT and covers 1 RAMS a month.

• Advanced costs £99 a month and covers 3 RAMS a month with unlimited COSHH assessments.
• Pro costs £190 a month, covers up to 3 users and 6 RAMS a month, and adds revision history.
• The annual versions cost £440, £990 and £2,000 a year excluding VAT for 12, 36 and 72 RAMS a year.
• Choose HandsHQ if you write a steady but small number of RAMS.

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swiftRMS drafts a method statement and a matching risk assessment from a plain-English description of the task. The draft covers the sequence of operations, plant, PPE and emergency arrangements, and it can be edited before export as a PDF or Word file. The vendor states that drafts must be reviewed by a competent person.

• Pro costs £49 a month for one user and includes unlimited documents.
• Business costs £399 a month for teams of up to 10 and adds permits to work, approval workflows, roles and permissions, an audit trail and QR sign-on f
• Choose swiftRMS if you write many RAMS and want a flat monthly cost.

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Ramsgen takes a different route from a template library. You upload the pre-construction information, drawings and specification, and the tool lists the permits, site rules, services and restrictions from those pages. It then drafts site-specific RAMS from your answers, with each line linked to the requirement it meets.

• The review feature checks a RAMS against 165 review questions, and marks findings as missing, weak or in conflict with a requirement.
• Standard costs £59 a month for 1 seat and covers site-specific RAMS, construction phase plans, project requirements extraction, and COSHH, noise and v
• Professional costs £99 a month for 1 seat and adds RAMS review and custom templates.
• Principal costs £199 a month for 5 seats.

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Soteriaa splits the job into two parts. The five documents, a risk assessment, a method statement, a COSHH assessment, an incident report and a toolbox talk record, are free to create and download as Word, PDF or Markdown, with no account needed. The tracking workspace is the subscription part.

• RAMS Pro costs £49 a month or £490 a year, which the vendor describes as two months free when billed annually, and it covers 1 user and up to 10 activ
• Only open sites count towards the limit.
• Tracking keeps each assessment under its site, with review dates sorted into overdue, due today and the next 30 days, plus follow-up actions, evidence
• Choose Soteriaa if you want free documents now and simple tracking later.

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The Site Book is built for builder-run firms rather than a single safety specialist. Starter gives one real job pack with RAMS, a construction phase plan and a site induction, with no card required, plus a standard hazard library, COSHH assessments, worker certificate tracking, a site diary, permits and an incident log. Pro costs £39 a month or £360 a year, which works out at £30 a month on annual billing, and covers unlimited projects with professional PDFs and business branding.

• Business costs £199 a month and is aimed at 10 to 50 person teams, with up to 10 internal team logins and 50 people who can sign in on site.

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HASpod sells documents rather than a drafting workflow. The Documents Plan costs £799 a year plus VAT and gives unlimited branded health and safety documents from a library of more than 830 templates, covering risk assessments, method statements, COSHH assessments, forms and policies, and CDM templates. It includes unlimited edits, unlimited projects and image uploads, with 10 free users and each extra user at £30 plus VAT a year.

• The Pro Plan costs £997 a year plus VAT and covers all documents, all training and all talks.
• Membership is charged upfront for a year, and the vendor states there are no automatic renewals.

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RAMS App is a cloud tool for creating, duplicating, downloading and sending risk assessments, method statements and COSHH assessments. The content is written, reviewed and updated by health and safety consultants, and you edit the ready-made method statements to suit your work or replace them with your own content. The single-user Annual Unlimited plan costs £449 plus VAT a year, with no monthly price shown.

• A multi-user plan exists, but its price is not published on the pages checked.
• Choose RAMS App if you write RAMS often enough that a single annual charge beats a per-document price.

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Risk Assessor Pro is a mobile-first RAMS tool. You create risk assessments on a phone, tablet or computer, even offline, then link them to method statements to form one RAMS document with sign-off. The method statement module includes more than 20 templates, and templates sync across devices.

• Pricing is per user in bands.
• For 1 to 10 users the price is £18 per user per month, for 11 to 20 users it is £16 per user per month, and for 21 to 50 users it is £14 per user per
• A 14-day free trial is offered.
• Choose Risk Assessor Pro if your team works on site with phones and tablets.

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