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Introducing our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Blower Vacs – a detailed and handy tool designed to help ensure safety and compliance on your job site. Built with the needs of tradespeople in mind, this template is packed with features that make creating and managing SWMS documents straightforward.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our template comes pre-loaded with extensive details about blower vac usage, eliminating much of the groundwork for you. It’s crafted to cover standard operating protocols and safety considerations thoroughly, aiming to save you time.
- Fully Editable and Customisable in Microsoft Word: Tailor this template to fit your specific project requirements using Microsoft Word. This flexibility allows you to adjust the content without hassle, ensuring it suits the unique circumstances of each job.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details: Clearly define the extent of work involved along with all relevant project details. It provides a framework for understanding the objectives and boundaries of a specific task involving blower vacs.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery On Site: Keep tabs on potentially dangerous machinery with an embedded checklist. You’ll be better positioned to address risks proactively when you have them documented from the get-go.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Documenting staff training ensures everyone is up-to-date and capable of performing their tasks safely. This section allows you to record who’s been trained and when, maintaining accountability.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Assessing risk is crucial; see how your ratings improve over time with a clear before-and-after comparison. This helps track effectiveness and encourages proactive improvements.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: We’ve got links and notes on relevant legislative frameworks to keep your operations compliant with local law. This feature aims to ease navigating legal and regulatory complexities.
- Includes All PPE Required: The template lists required Personal Protective Equipment, ensuring all necessary gear is used to protect workers, thus promoting a culture of safety.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Contextualise potential hazards with a thorough risk assessment matrix, illustrating severity and likelihood effectively. It helps prioritise safety actions systematically.
- Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Use this checklist to confirm that all steps taken towards safety have been considered and applied, leaving no stone unturned.
- Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Accountability is key. Secure everyone’s commitment by having workers and responsible persons sign off, which boosts compliance and professionalism across the board.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: We’ve designed this system to be as user-friendly as possible. You don’t need to be a tech whiz to navigate or customise this template efficiently.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Whether you’re dealing with vast projects or high-level contractual obligations, this template scales to fit various operational levels with ease.
- Quick Delivery by Email: Time is of the essence, so we’ve made sure you can receive this template quickly via email, allowing you to move promptly and focus on what you do best.
With this SWMS template, you’ll be well-equipped to handle the safety review process with confidence. Always consider the specific needs of your project and adapt the template accordingly. Remember, it’s here to support and guide you towards safer workplace practices.
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Each Safe Work Method Statement has specific content that is referenced to, but not limited to a number of authorities such as Codes of Practice, Regulations, Australian Standards or the Act.
The Blower Vac Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) references:
Ordering only takes a few minutes. Upon ordering completion, a link will be sent to your email address to download your documents, then add your company logo to the top of the header and you’re finished.
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Frequent Questions
Safe Work Method Statement Template FAQ’s
What format is a BlueSafe Australia Safe Work Method Statement Template delivered in?
Because every SWMS needs to be edited to suit on-site specifics, it makes sense to deliver our Safe Work Method Statements in Microsoft Word Format for easy editing.
How many pages long is each Safe Work Method Statement Template?
It depends entirely on the nature of the risks associated with the SWMS Template, however on average the documents are between 7-15 pages in length. Each Safe Work Method Statement is comprehensive in nature and is easy to use.
What are before and after risk ratings?
Before and after risk ratings are simply this: When you initially start to do a job, like say drill a hole in a wall, there will be a level of risk, which for this example let's just say is a level 2 (before). The idea is that then you would implement some type of control measure to reduce the risk, and in this case we would implement the control measure of wearing safety glasses to protect the eyes. This now would bring the risk of an injury down to a level 1 (after). Here you can see how the SWMS has a before and after risk rating for each step of a job, task or process.
Why do the Safe Work Method Statement Templates have before and after risk ratings?
Before and after risk ratings are a simple and effective way to clearly show how, and how much a certain level of risk has been brought down for a certain step in a job task or process. Another reason also is that many larger contractors now like to see before and after risk ratings, so it makes sense to include them in our Templates.
Are the SWMS Templates pre-filled?
Absolutely. Every Safe Work Method Statement Template is pre-filled, high quality and comprehensive in order to help save you as much time, and deliver as much quality information as possible when conducting your own on site safety.
Do the Safe Work Method Statement Templates come with a Risk Assessment?
Yes. Each Safe Work Method Statement comes with it's own built in Risk Assessment which is part of the working document. The SWMS is straightforward, easy to use and has a risk calculator to work out the risk level and likelihood of the risk occurring.
Does each SWMS Template have the required PPE already suggested?
Yes, each SWMS Template has a range of PPE recorded, as well as picture icons of different PPE items that you can add/remove as you need to for the requirements of the job task.
What Should be Included in a Safe Work Method Statement?
If you're going to be doing any high risk construction work, you'll most likely not only need a Safe Work Method Statement, but you'll also need to make sure your SWMS has a number of checks and balances in order for the document to be accepted in your construction site safety. Purchasing a safe work method statement template can help save you quite a lot of time rather than starting from scratch. Also, just remember that even though every BlueSafe Template is highly comprehensive and pre-filled, your SWMS Template should be adjusted to suit any noticeable risks that are specific to the task you are performing.
Your Safe Work Method Statement must:
- List or show the different types of construction work that is high risk
- Clearly explain the workplace health and safety hazards as well as the risks that arise from the works
- Explain in detail how each risk will be managed, maintained and controlled
- Explain how each control measure will be implemented in order to reduce each risk
- Describe how each control measure will be monitored an how often the control measures will be reviewed
- Consider any additional factors that may impact the level of risk involved with the safety of the construction site such as weather, wind etc.
- Be made available and accessible to read by employees and applicable personnel at any time.
- Every SWMS should be easy to understand and written in plain language
- Every BlueSafe Australia Safe Work Method Statement Template is straightforward and easy to use. They also have what's called 'before and after risk ratings', which basically means there's a built in risk assessment that is used in the process of using the document. This allows you to asses the initial risks and give them a score, and then assess the risk and give an 'after score' once the listed control measures are implemented. All our documents are comprehensive, pre-filled and easy to use. You can even download a sample below and see an example.
