"AI will take over the world!"
If I had a pound for every time I’ve heard that recently, I could probably retire early and spend my days telling subcontractors why their RAMS were rejected.
The reality? Every time I actually try using AI for something even moderately complex, it gives me information so wrong you’d think it had been trained on a packet of crisps. The gap between the hype and what AI currently delivers, especially in UK Health & Safety, is wide enough to drive a telehandler through.
The £25.99-a-Month miracle? not quite.
A mate recently sent me a link to a brand-new AI-generated RAMS platform.
He knows I run my own RAMS-writing system, so I’m always curious to see what’s out there.
So, the technical team and I took a look. Price tag? £25.99 per month, or £199 a year if you’re feeling brave. What did we find?
In short: utterly useless.
The most glaring issue? No Method Statement.
You know - the MS in RAMS. The whole “what, how, why, and in what sequence” bit that actually matters. Without that, a RAMS document is nothing more than a risk assessment wearing a cheap moustache disguise.
Then there were the risk assessments themselves:
- No detail
- No reasoning
- No risk analysis scoring
- No pre-control figures
- No reference to training or competencies
- No residual risk matrix
Basically, it was an expensive blank sheet of paper with a header.
For nearly thirty quid a month? Any half-awake H&S Manager would reject it before reaching page two.
American Laws… for a UK Site?
Here’s another favourite trick of questionable AI:
You tell it you’re a UK business, even specify your worksite is in Birmingham, and it still proudly fills your paperwork with OSHA regulations.
Great… if you’re laying bricks in Nebraska.
Less great if you’re trying to satisfy CDM Regs, HASAWA, and relevant British Standards.
This happens because large language models (LLMs) don’t “understand” context in the way humans do. They’re pattern machines. And sometimes those patterns come from the wrong continent.
AI isn’t stupid, it’s just not ready for this job
People forget that AI, as it stands today, isn’t an oracle.
It’s a tool.
A tool that’s still very early in its development and being rushed into the mainstream faster than you can say “uncontrolled risk factor.”
Companies are shoving AI into every possible commercial nook and cranny,not because it’s ready, but because they’re desperate to monetise it. It's the tech world’s equivalent of pushing a trainee onto site on their first day and asking them to run the job.
And let’s not ignore the elephant in the server room:
AI is a cost centre, not a profit maker
AI companies aren’t rolling in cash, they’re burning it.
Data centres, cooling infrastructure, power consumption, backup power systems… it all costs a fortune, and none of it is cheap to upgrade.
People often quote Moore’s Law; the idea that technology becomes obsolete roughly every 24 months.
So, what happens when you build billion-pound underwater server farms?
Can they realistically retrofit them every two years?
No one knows.
Not even the people building them.
Will AI change the world? Absolutely.
Will it replace you this year? Absolutely not.
AI will become a powerful tool for Health & Safety one day. It’ll help with data, trends, forecasting, maybe even real-time hazard identification.
But right now?
If you work in a detail-oriented industry, where judgement, nuance, experience, and genuine understanding keep people safe,your job isn’t going anywhere.
You can’t automate the smell of a burning cable.
You can’t teach an algorithm what “doesn’t look right” feels like.
And you certainly can’t trust AI to write a legally compliant RAMS when it still can’t decide whether the UK uses OSHA, EU directives, or something it found on Reddit.
AI will take over the world?
Maybe one day, after it learns to write a Method Statement.
Until then, don’t panic.
Don’t rush to replace competent professionals with chatbots.
And if you’re paying £25.99 per month for an AI RAMS generator that can’t even include a method statement? You’re not buying innovation, you’re buying a liability.
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