RAMS for Plumbers

A plumbing RAMS has to cover the hot works permit, the confined space and the chemicals that a pipework job brings into somebody else's building. Facilities managers and principal contractors read it for how soldering and brazing will be controlled, how a plant room will be entered and how flux, flushing chemicals and legionella risk are handled.

A RAMS Pal document for plumbing and heating work asks about hot works, confined spaces, chemicals, isolation and occupied premises, and produces the fire watch, the entry permit, the COSHH controls and the isolation steps in the method statement, with the manual handling of cylinders, boilers and pipe. Slips from water and the interface with occupants are scored alongside.

Plant room pipework, boiler replacement, commercial services installation, drainage works, leak repairs and system flushing are all covered, and the competencies section records Gas Safe registration, CSCS cards and confined space training for each operative.