A useful work plan needs to survive more than its first approval. People must understand the scope, resolve outstanding prerequisites, brief the right revision and respond when conditions change. The new Sentinel RAMS, JSA and SWMS courses bring those decisions into a practical learning pathway.
The three individual courses are now available on Safetyman Academy. Across beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, they combine nine lessons, genuine module screenshots, fictional exercises, worked answers and thirty assessment questions. The language is straightforward British English, and you can pause and return as your schedule allows.
Beginner: prepare clear work plans
Allow approximately 110 minutes. Start with the purpose and limits of RAMS, JSA and SWMS, then learn to find the right company and assessment. You will work through scope, exclusions, interfaces, ordered work steps, hazards, controls and evidence. The emphasis is on preparing a draft that someone else can review sensibly.
Intermediate: review, brief and manage actions
Allow approximately 120 minutes. This course follows preparatory actions, independent submission and review, personal briefing acknowledgements and readiness. It explains why both a linked action and its allocation need to reach the required closed state, and why approval is separate from the author’s decision to record a revision as In use.
Advanced: control change and retain evidence
Allow approximately 130 minutes. Advanced learning examines suspension, linked successor revisions, supersession, exports and the limits of evidence. It also explains how to think through local and cloud conflicts without assuming that either copy is automatically right. The assessed baseline is the Suite 1.9 web workflow; desktop support depends on the installed version.
Explore the three training levels
One fictional example, progressively harder decisions
The courses use a Northbank dispatch-route inspection. The exercise concerns a visual inspection of an agreed segregated route, with dispatch movements stopped through the inspection area. Repairs, work at height and entry into vehicle operating areas are outside its scope. These boundaries make it possible to ask a useful question: when does a seemingly small change become a different job?
You can complete the notebook exercises without a software subscription. Optional software practice requires an authorised fictional assessment and your own named account. Worked answers let you compare your reasoning after attempting the task, rather than simply copying a completed record.
How this builds on NCR and shared actions
NCR helps teams respond to a requirement that has not been met. RAMS helps them prepare, review and control planned work. Shared actions can support the follow-up work in either context while retaining the source. Learning the boundaries between those records is as important as learning the links: a completed action is not, by itself, an approved plan or a closed NCR.
For example, confirming a current route drawing can be a preparatory action linked to a plan. Delivery evidence and independent verification address that prerequisite. The plan still needs its own review, and the author still needs the required readiness and briefing evidence before recording it as In use.
Assessment and your next step
Each course contains three lessons and a ten-question final assessment. Seven correct answers meet the 70% pass mark. The course certificate records achievement of the learning requirements; it does not grant a software licence, establish practical competence or authorise operational work.
RAMS means risk assessment and method statement, JSA means job safety analysis, and SWMS means safe work method statement. Selecting one of these labels does not establish that a document meets the requirements for a particular task or jurisdiction.
Compare the three RAMS courses, explore the fictional worked example or contact the Academy about individual or team enrolment.
Already coordinating corrective work? Pair this pathway with Sentinel NCR training to develop a clearer understanding of planning, delivery and review across the suite.
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