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Road surfacing RAMS Builder
Road surfacing risk assessment and method statement
Prepare RAMS for laying asphalt and resin-bound surfacing on roads, drives and car parks. Add the job details, edit the suggestions that fit your crew and review the PDF draft.
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What a Road surfacing RAMS covers
Laying a new wearing surface by hand or machine: hot asphalt rolled over a prepared base, or resin-bound aggregate trowelled onto a sound sub-base.
- Lay asphalt surfacing
- Lay resin-bound surfacing
Suggested steps and hazards for Road surfacing
What it offers for lay asphalt surfacing before you have answered anything.
Check the weather before you start
- Do not lift or fix hot asphalt, resin and loose materials in strong wind; a large sheet is a sail.
- Stop in heavy rain, ice or lightning, and rest in the shade in hot weather.
Hazard
Wind catches the hot asphalt, resin and loose materials or blows someone off balance at height
Who might be harmed and how
The team and people below
Controls in place
- Agree a wind limit for panels and platforms and check the forecast each morning.
- Tie down or take in loose materials before you leave.
Wind is the main weather cause of falls and dropped loads in outside work at height.
HSE: Work at height Keep the delivery route safe
- Use a firm, even route suitable for the delivery vehicle and the work area.
- Separate drivers, pedestrians and surfacing plant before hot material arrives.
Hazard
A vehicle or person slips, trips or is struck on the delivery route
Who might be harmed and how
Surfacing team, drivers and pedestrians
Controls in place
- Use the agreed traffic plan and a trained vehicle marshal.
- Keep people out of the reversing and unloading area.
A firm route and separated traffic reduce vehicle and pedestrian injuries around delivery.
Driving surfaces Check and prepare the base
- Check the base, levels, drainage, cleanliness and moisture before asphalt is delivered.
- Do not lay on a wet, contaminated or damaged base; put it right or stop the job.
Hazard
A failed or uneven base leaves a defective surface and creates trips or skids
Who might be harmed and how
Surfacing team, drivers and people using the route
Controls in place
- Record the base check before delivery.
- Keep rain and standing water out of the laying area.
Asphalt needs a suitable foundation, drainage and clean dry conditions to perform properly.
Driving surfaces
What the builder asks about Road surfacing
Your answers decide which steps, hazards and controls it suggests.
Where
- What is the base like before asphalt arrives?
- What is the base like before resin is mixed?
How it’s done
- What will you stand on to reach the work?
- How will you lay the asphalt?
- What resin-bound system are you using?
- How will the asphalt, aggregate and tools get to the work?
What you’ve been told
- How will the fresh asphalt be released to traffic?
- How will you keep people off the fresh resin?
What your Road surfacing RAMS includes
Method statement
The sequence of the work, step by step. The suggestions are a starting point; you write the method for the job as it will be done.
Risk assessment
Each hazard, who could be harmed, the controls in place and any further action. There is no risk score: you judge each row against the real site, and adding a hazard does not put its controls in place.
PDF draft for review
The document as you left it, for someone competent to check. A download is not approval and not permission to start work.