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When it comes to bushfire safety in the workplace, having a well-documented Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) is crucial. Whether you are a project manager, site supervisor, or business owner, ensuring the safety of your staff and complying with legal obligations should be at the top of your list. Enter our specially designed SWMS Template for Bushfire Safety—a practical resource tailored to ease your worksite safety management efforts.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our bushfire safety SWMS template comes pre-filled with detailed content crafted by seasoned safety experts. It’s exhaustive enough to cover essential safety measures but flexible enough to modify according to your unique requirements.
- Fully Editable and Customisable: Delivered in Microsoft Word format, our template is straightforward to edit. Tweak it to meet your specific needs without the hassle of dealing with complex formatting software.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details: Clearly outline your project’s scope, identify stakeholders involved, and signify key deliverables right at the start.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery on Site: Keep track of all high-risk machinery present at your site. This checklist serves as a preventive measure, alerting workers to exercise due caution.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: A dedicated section allows you to log all relevant staff training activities related to bushfire emergencies, helping ensure everyone is prepared.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Assess risks both initially and after implementing control measures using this built-in feature. This helps demonstrate how effective your risk mitigation strategies are.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: Providing easy access to important legislative references gives you peace of mind that your SWMS complies with Australian Safety Standards.
- Includes All PPE Required: Lists all the necessary Personal Protective Equipment to safeguard workers against potential hazards during fire emergencies.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: This feature enables you to identify, evaluate, and control risks effectively through a structured assessment process supported by an intuitive matrix.
- Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Make sure no stone is left unturned during implementation with a thorough checklist at hand.
- Includes Sign-Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Easily document acknowledgment and agreement by having all necessary personnel sign-off on the SWMS.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: With its user-friendly design, you can quickly adapt the template to meet site-specific conditions without breaking a sweat.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Designed to cater to more significant projects, making it ideal for those involved in large-scale contracts and tenders.
- Quick Delivery by Email: We understand urgency; therefore, we offer fast email delivery so you can get started on enhancing safety measures without delay.
So, why wait? Navigate the challenges of bushfire safety management with confidence and professionalism with our SWMS Template for Bushfire Safety. It’s about making safety planning as seamless as possible. Reach out 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 Bushfire Safety Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) references:
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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.
