Aviation Safety SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning, airside work, aircraft-related tasks, fuelling, maintenance support and emergency response activities. It supports risk management for aircraft and vehicle movement, weather, fuels, chemicals, pressurised equipment and site coordination.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan the work, brief personnel and consider weather, fatigue and coordination
• Establish and control an airside work zone
• Conduct aircraft pre-flight checks and manage access around aircraft
• Board helicopter transfers and manage loose articles and landing-surface hazards
• Undertake animal monitoring flights and manage low-level and remote-area risks
• Perform cloud-seeding activities and manage weather, chemical and system hazards
• Fuel aircraft and manage vapours, spills, static and vehicle movement
• Operate nitrogen maintenance equipment and manage pressurised systems
• De-ice aircraft surfaces and manage chemicals, cold conditions and access
• Manage incidents and emergencies, then clean up and sign off

Who is this for?

For workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out the aviation-related activities described in this document.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

The template includes references relevant to the documented work, including:

• Applicable Commonwealth, state or territory WHS/OHS legislation and regulations, including duties to identify hazards, eliminate or minimise risks so far as is reasonably practicable, consult workers, provide training, maintain plant and manage hazardous chemicals.
• Applicable Commonwealth aviation safety legislation, Civil Aviation Safety Regulations and Civil Aviation Safety Authority operational requirements, as applied to the operator’s aircraft type, approved operations and airspace.
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks (guidance only unless adopted or approved in the relevant jurisdiction).
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, including SDS review, competent assessment, ventilation, storage-system integrity and ongoing control-measure maintenance (guidance only unless adopted or approved in the relevant jurisdiction).
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the work environment and facilities; Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks; and Model Code of Practice: Managing psychosocial hazards at work, including fatigue controls (guidance only unless adopted or approved in the relevant jurisdiction).
• Model Code of Practice: Labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals and the Australian Dangerous Goods Code, as applicable to chemical identification, transport and storage.
• AS 1940 The storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids; AS 2030 Gas cylinders; AS 1210 Pressure vessels; AS/NZS 60079 Explosive atmospheres; AS/NZS 1715 Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 1337.1 Eye and face protection; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 2161 Occupational protective gloves; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 4602.1 High-visibility safety garments.

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Standard SWMS Features (Click to Expand)

• Task-specific job steps, hazards and control measures
• Initial and residual risk ratings
• Assigned responsible persons for each job step
• Plant, equipment and PPE requirements where applicable
• Permits, qualifications and high-risk construction work details where applicable
• Worker consultation, sign-off and review sections