Documents are AI-assisted drafts and must be checked and approved by a competent person before use. Not legal or professional advice. Read the disclaimer
Tiling RAMS are usually too short. The cutter, the adhesive and the wet floor injure people more often than the tiles themselves. In a bathroom or a shop floor that stays open, you also have members of the public walking into a wet adhesive line.
This sample covers ceramic and porcelain wall and floor tiling, including cuts with an electric cutter. Natural stone and resinous adhesives may need a stricter COSHH line from the product sheet. The draft tells you to paste that in rather than guess.
When to use it. Domestic bathrooms, commercial floors, splashbacks, and external patio tiling where dust and public access both matter. Tanking and underfloor heating need the manufacturer's sequence as well as this RAMS.
From the tiling base inside RamsBox. It is not a RAMS for a real address until you add the site.
Silica dust and flying chips from cutting tiles. Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
- Wet cut or extract. Cut outside or in a ventilated area, not in a closed bathroom with the client next door.
- Eye protection, and a respirator if the COSHH assessment requires one.
- Check substrates are ready: flat, dry or tanked as the specification says, and electrics and plumbing are in the right place.
- Agree with the occupant or site manager which rooms are closed.
- Brief the cutter location, the dust control, and the drying time before people walk on floors.
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
Initial 12 (High) · residual 4 (Low)
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
Initial 6 (Medium) · residual 4 (Low)
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
Initial 9 (Medium) · residual 4 (Low)
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task; occupants
Initial 9 (Medium) · residual 4 (Low)
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
Initial 9 (Medium) · residual 4 (Low)
Who might be harmed: Operatives doing the task
Initial 10 (High) · residual 5 (Medium)
Only the UK sources kept for this trade. This is not legal advice, and RamsBox is not affiliated with HSE.
DRAFT - needs competent person review. A competent person still has to check the draft against the site.
If you cut tiles, use a cement-based adhesive, or the room stays occupied, yes. The draft is short enough to brief in a few minutes once the job details are filled in.
Porcelain and stone can release silica. The base control is wet cutting or extraction, plus the respirator named in the COSHH assessment. Do not rely on a comfort mask.
Not as the default. Use a hop-up or podium for wall tiles above shoulder height so both hands are free and the cutter is not balanced on a tread.
A house bathroom can still injure the tiler and the people who live there. The Management Regulations require a suitable and sufficient assessment, and COSHH applies to adhesives, grouts and silica in the dust. On a building site, CDM 2015 applies as well. Clients and main contractors ask for the RAMS because they want that plan in writing.
The tiler who will do the room or the run. Large-format porcelain is a different job from a splashback. The competent person checks access, the cutter and whether the property is occupied.
The assessment lists blades, dust, adhesives, slips and handling. The method is the order: protect the route, set the cutter where the slurry can be controlled, fix, then leave the floor safe for the household or the next trade.
If the product is hazardous, yes. The safety data sheet is not the assessment. The COSHH assessment template sets out what that document has to decide. The RAMS should then say how that decision shows up on this job.