Compliance Scoring

Compliance scoring analyses your RAMS against UK health and safety regulations and gives you a detailed breakdown of strengths, gaps, and recommendations.

How it works

AI reviews your entire document — work scope, method statement, risk assessment, controls, and operational sections — and checks it against applicable UK regulations including:

• Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
• Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
• CDM Regulations 2015
• Work at Height Regulations 2005
• COSHH Regulations 2002
• Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
• And other relevant legislation based on your work type

Running a compliance check

Manually

1. Open your document in the editor.
2. Click Compliance Check in the toolbar.
3. Wait for the analysis to complete (typically 10-30 seconds).
4. The compliance report opens.

Cost: 3 credits.

Automatically

Compliance scoring runs automatically at two points:

• After AI generation — when a document is generated, a compliance check runs in the background. You will see the score when it completes.
• On contractor submission — when a subcontractor submits their RAMS for your review, a compliance check runs automatically so you see the score alongside the document.

Automatic checks use credits from the document author’s (or submitting contractor’s) allowance.

[Screenshot: Compliance score banner showing the overall score with a button to view the full report]

Understanding the report

The compliance report gives you:

Overall score (0-100)

A single score summarising how well your document covers the applicable regulations. As a general guide:

Score	Meaning
80-100	Strong compliance. Minor improvements may be possible.
60-79	Adequate but with notable gaps that should be addressed.
40-59	Significant gaps. Document needs work before use on site.
Below 40	Major compliance issues. Document should not be used until addressed.

Detailed breakdown

The report is organised into sections:

• Strengths — what the document does well. Regulations that are well-covered.
• Weaknesses — areas where coverage is thin or could be improved.
• Critical gaps — missing elements that could represent a compliance failure. These should be addressed before the document is approved.
• Regulation coverage — a checklist showing which specific regulations are addressed and which are missing.
• Hazard quality assessment — whether hazards are described clearly with appropriate severity/likelihood scores.
• Control measures assessment — whether controls follow the hierarchy of control and are sufficient for the identified hazards.
• Prioritised recommendations — specific actions to improve the score, ordered by importance.

[Screenshot: Compliance report showing the score breakdown with strengths, gaps, and recommendations sections]

Acting on the report

Addressing critical gaps

Critical gaps should be fixed before the document is submitted for approval:

1. Read each critical gap in the report.
2. Navigate to the relevant section in the editor.
3. Add the missing content or controls.
4. Run the compliance check again to verify the gap is resolved.

Using recommendations

Recommendations are ordered by priority. Start with the highest-priority items:

• Some recommendations suggest adding specific hazards — use Hazard Identification to find and add them.
• Some suggest improving control measures — use Control Measure Suggestions to get AI help.
• Some suggest adding content to operational sections — use Section Refinement to improve specific sections.

Compliance scoring for contractor submissions

When you manage subcontractors through the Supply Chain portal:

1. A contractor submits their RAMS.
2. RAMSdoc runs a compliance check automatically.
3. You see the compliance score alongside the submitted document.
4. The compliance report highlights any gaps before you start your manual review.

This pre-screening helps you focus your review on the areas that matter most, rather than reading the entire document cold.

Limitations

• The compliance score is a guide, not a legal opinion. It checks document content against regulation requirements, but cannot assess whether the document is appropriate for the actual site conditions.
• Regulations are based on RAMSdoc’s regulation database. While this is kept current through regulatory monitoring, you should verify critical regulatory references independently.
• A score of 100 does not guarantee legal compliance — it means the document content covers the applicable regulations well. On-site implementation and competent supervision are still required.
• Industry-specific regulations (e.g. railways, nuclear, offshore) may not be fully covered. Check sector-specific requirements separately.