Shallow excavation, drainage and foundations · UK

Groundworks RAMS for excavation and drainage.

Nothing gets a subcontractor stood down faster than an excavation without paperwork. Services, support and spoil are the three things the principal contractor will look for, and your SITEPAPERS RAMS covers all of them for your actual dig, up to 1.2 metres.

Order your Groundworks RAMS · £139 How the service works

✓ SMSTS professional sign-off ✓ £1,000,000 professional indemnity ✓ Back in 24-48h

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What your groundworks RAMS covers

Underground services: plans, CAT and genny survey before breaking ground, safe digging practice and hand dig zones
Excavation support and battering decisions recorded, daily inspection regime
Spoil placement away from edges, vehicle and pedestrian segregation
Plant and people: exclusion zones around excavators, thumbs-up protocols, banksman arrangements
Water ingress, weather and reinspection triggers
Buried obstruction and contamination discovery procedure

Written to: CDM 2015, HSG47 Avoiding danger from underground services, Confined Spaces Regulations awareness, PUWER 1998. Only the hazards that genuinely apply to your job make the document; padding is what gets paperwork rejected.

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How it works

Order and tell us the job

£139 fixed, paid securely by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay. Then a ten-question intake: your scope, the site, your crew, anything unusual.

5 minutes

Written, then signed off

Your document is written for that exact job and reviewed by an SMSTS qualified professional with years running live UK sites.

Within 24-48h

Hand it over, start work

Branded PDF plus editable Word, one revision round included. If the principal contractor comments, we turn the revision around.

PDF + DOCX

Fixed rate, no subscription

Order before 2pm and your groundworks RAMS is back within 24-48h of your intake.

Order now · £139

Also available: Construction Phase Plans from £199 and the full site pack £349