RAMP – Risk management Assessment tool for Manual handling Proactively

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Courses on the RAMP Tool

The RAMP open-for-all fully online courses will run April 15 – December 12 2025 again

The popular, fully online, training package on the RAMP tool, now also include the news of the RAMP 2.0-version of the RAMP tool. In three courses you learn how to apply the whole risk management process, from risk identification, and risk assessment, to concrete action plans and follow-ups.  

These courses (in English) will run again between April 15 – December 12 2025. For information on how to register to the courses go to Online Courses  in the menu.

RAMP Lifelong learning courses in Swedish during the autumn 2025

KTH Royal Institute of Technology offers a training package on the RAMP tool as part of KTH’s Lifelong learning initiative, starting in the autumn again. The three courses (CH209V, CH210V and CH211V) now also include the news of the RAMP 2.0-version of the RAMP tool. They will be running sequentially, you learn how to apply the whole risk management process, from risk identification, and risk assessment, to concrete action plans and follow-ups. For more information about the courses, go to Online Courses  in the menu.

These courses consist in part of the material provided in the “open-for-all” RAMP courses in English (please see above) and in part of digital seminars and assignments in connection to the seminars, mainly in Swedish. If you successfully complete the courses, you will earn 2.5 ECTS credits per course. More information about the courses, prerequisites, how to apply, etc. is available on the Lifelong learning website .

The courses will be running sequentially during the autumn with Course 1 starting at the end of August (week 35) and the Course 3 ends mid December (week 50). You can apply to the courses between March 17 and April 15 2025 via the website antagning.se

RAMP 2.0 launched!

We are happy to announce that as of January 2024, KTH Ergonomics Division has launched the preliminary English version of the Excel programs for the new version of the RAMP tool: the "RAMP 2.0". The Swedish version’s launch is planned for the spring 2024. On this website you can download all three of the new RAMP 2.0 programs and the User manual, all free of charge.

Here are the main new features you will find in the new RAMP 2.0:

• Enhanced application range: This is accomplished mainly with the new Hand model. The RAMP tool can now also be used for MSD risk assessment and risk management of work tasks with repeated force exertion by the hand or fingers, and tasks where the hand is exposed to impact, reaction load, or shock.
• Updated RAMP abbreviation: The enhanced application range, from manual handling to also include work where the hands are used much, is reflected in the new version of what the abbreviation RAMP stands for, which in RAMP 2.0 is “Risk Assessment and Management tool for manual work Proactively.”
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): KPIs, based on RAMP results, can be used to identify and visualize trends in effects of the systematic MSD risk management work and be a support for management teams as part of their basis for informed decision-making and for business management.
• Risk Management Support module: This consists of three parts: one about risk management processes, one where RAMP results from several assessments can be aggregated and visualized at different level of detail (the previous ”Results module”), and the part with KPIs.
• Increased usability in the RAMP II Excel program: The main update is that the assessments are entered directly for each assessment item in the corresponding Risk category sheet and are automatically transferred to the Results section.
• Web-based version: To improve the RAMP tool’s usability, a Web-based version has been developed. We are working now on the final refinements and plan to present the English version at the “Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025” conference in the UK in April 2025, and launch both the English and Swedish web-based versions later during 2025. Thank you for your patience. Stay tuned!   

The Courses were developed with support from; Scania, Avonova, EIT Health, Loods Åkeri, Svenskt Butikskött AB, Ensto Ensek AS and Arla Foods AB.

Here's a video from our main funder, AFA Insurance:

A digitalized version of the RAMP tool is available for download free of charge from this homepage. 

Note! Excel 2010 or newer versions of Excel is needed for using the RAMP tool.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Linda Rose.