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Introducing the Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Building Maintenance Unit (BMU) activities – a tool designed with convenience and practicality in mind for your project needs. Whether you’re handling large contracts or working on tier 1 tender projects, this template aims to assist in maintaining compliance and ensuring safety without adding unnecessary complexity.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: We’ve done the groundwork for you with a pre-filled template that covers a range of common BMU activity requirements. This allows you to focus more on specific site details rather than starting from scratch.
- Fully editable and customisable in Microsoft Word format: Adapt the document to suit your project specifics easily. Our Word format ensures you can edit and personalise the document as required, keeping it relevant and thorough.
- Includes the scope of the project and the project details: Clearly lay out the parameters and specifics of your project using dedicated sections. This helps ensure all stakeholders understand the project extent and any customer-specific details.
- Includes checklist of any high risk machinery on site: Benefit from a structured list to tick off all high-risk machinery present at your worksite. It’s about ensuring every machinery-related hazard is acknowledged and managed.
- Includes space for recording any staff training: Keep a track record of team members who have completed necessary safety training. An indispensable feature for workforce management and proving due diligence should it be needed.
- Includes before and after risk ratings: Document the initial and residual risks following control measure implementation. This feature supports demonstrating improvement and compliance over time.
- Includes resources for use of legislative references: Easily access critical legislative references that are relevant to BMU operations, helping to align your processes with Australian safety standards.
- Includes all PPE required: A detailed list ensuring no essential personal protective equipment is overlooked – because every layer of protection counts when it comes to safety.
- Includes risk assessment and risk assessment matrix: A systematic approach to identifying hazards and evaluating associated risks determines appropriate controls based on severity and likelihood.
- Includes a checklist to ensure all requirements have been covered when implementing the SWMS: Verify the comprehensive completion of safety protocols with our end-to-end checklist — a practical step to bolster confidence in your safety measures.
- Includes sign off page for all workers and responsible persons: Facilitate accountability and acknowledgment by having every worker and manager sign off on the SWMS, thus fostering a safety-first culture.
- Easy to use, easy to customise: Simplistic design focusing on user-friendliness so you spend less time figuring out the template and more on effective implementation.
- Suitable for large contracts and Tenders, including tier 1 contractual work: Thoughtfully crafted to meet the detailed needs of high-stakes projects, ensuring protocol adherence and professionalism throughout.
- Quick delivery by email: Get started promptly with our efficient email delivery system, saving you valuable time when initiating your safety planning.
Using our Safe Work Method Statement Template means joining a commitment to pragmatic, yet robust safety management. Use it as a base to help support your safety initiatives today!
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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 Building Maintenance Unit BMU 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.
