About RAMP

RAMP is a tool to support the assessment and management of Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risks in manual handling jobs. It is research based and has been developed in Sweden, in close co-operation between researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and practitioners at companies in a project financed mainly by AFA Insurance and the participating companies.

RAMP consists of four modules:

• The checklist-based RAMP I for screening of MSD risks.
• RAMP II which enables a more in depth analysis.
• The Risk Management Support module with three parts: i) on risk management processes, ii) aggregating, presenting, visualising and communicating the results (the former “Results module”, and iii) forming and visualizing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• The Action module, supporting the development of risk reducing measures and systematic risk management.

A digitalized version of the RAMP tool is available for download free of charge from this homepage. The different programs and their contents are described below.

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