RAMS cost calculator
Add your monthly RAMS volume, your time, any consultant fees and how often documents get sent back.
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Your annual RAMS bill, itemised
time + fees + rework
result updates as you add entries
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Use round numbers from a typical month — the calculator scales them to a year. Everything stays in your browser.
Leave at 0% if you write all your RAMS yourself.
When a principal contractor returns a RAMS for changes — count the delay and chasing, not just the rewrite.
Used for the side-by-side table on the right. Both are editable — change them to your own figures.
11 June 2026
| Hours on RAMS paperwork | 182 h |
| Cost of your time writing them | £6,480 |
| Send-backs (10/yr) | £1,728 |
| Total annual cost | £8,208 |
Three ways to produce the same 48 RAMS a year
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| Per year | Doing it yourself | Consultant | RamsDocs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your hours | 182 h | 38 h | 50 h |
| Cost | £8,208 | £18,528 | £2,268 |
| A rejected RAMS costs you | £180 each (£1,728/yr) — the same on any route | ||
Compared with a consultant at £350/RAMS, RamsDocs would save you about £16,260 and -12 hours a year.
This comparison uses your own figures plus typical UK market rates — change any of them to match your situation. RamsDocs is £0 during early access; the only cost shown is the time to review each draft. Whichever route you pick, the document is only as good as the competent-person review behind it — this tool informs that decision, it doesn't certify the result.
That's £8,208 a year on your current process. RamsDocs costs £0 right now — no card, no subscription. If it saves you even half the time you spend writing each RAMS, you can do the arithmetic from your own figures above.
Build a RAMS draftWhere the cost of RAMS actually hides
Most trades never put a number on their RAMS paperwork because it doesn't arrive as an invoice. It comes out of evenings, weekends and the start of jobs that should already be moving. Add it up over a year and it's rarely small.
- Your writing time. An hour spent rewriting last job's method statement is an hour you could have billed, or an hour of your own evening. Either way it has a cost — that's what the hourly-rate field captures.
- Consultant fees. If you send some RAMS out, you pay per document — and consultants usually have a minimum fee, so a simple job costs much the same as a complex one.
- The rejected document. A RAMS sent back on Friday for “vague controls” can cost you a Monday start. The rewrite is the small part; the lost day for the crew, the chasing and the knock-on to the programme is the expensive part. That's why the send-back field asks for hours lost including delay and chasing, not just the editing time.
What UK consultant RAMS fees look like
There's no fixed price for a RAMS — fees vary a lot with the trade, the complexity of the work and the consultant. As a rough guide, a single document for a standard activity tends to land in the low-to- mid hundreds of pounds, with multi-trade or higher-risk work costing more, since those often run closer to a full day's work from briefing to delivery. Many consultants also apply a minimum charge, so the per-document cost of occasional one-off RAMS is usually higher than the headline day rate suggests. Use whatever your own consultant actually charges in the field above — that's the only number that reflects your situation.
How this calculator works
It only adds up figures you provide. Annual volume is your monthly RAMS count times twelve. The split between what you write and what a consultant writes is applied to your hours and their fee respectively, and the send-back cost is the share of submissions returned multiplied by the hours each one costs you at your hourly rate. There are no industry averages baked in and no assumptions about how any tool would change those numbers.
So what about RamsDocs?
RamsDocs is free during early access — £0 per RAMS, no card and no subscription. We're not going to invent a savings figure for you: the honest position is that the total above is what your current process costs, and a free tool costs nothing. If RamsDocs saves you even half the time you currently spend writing each RAMS, the difference is straightforward to work out from your own numbers. RamsDocs drafts a structured, site-specific document; you remain the competent person who reviews and signs it off.
RamsDocs helps draft structured RAMS from your job details. It does not replace competent-person review, site-specific judgement or your legal duties.
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