General Farm Maintenance Chemicals and Workshop SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers general farm maintenance involving chemicals, workshop work, structures, wells, telemetry, effluent and waste. It supports work planning and risk management for chemical handling, plant and equipment, repairs, decontamination and sign-off.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan work and establish the farm work area
• Inspect chemical storage and inventory
• Mix and apply farm chemicals
• Position plant and workshop equipment
• Maintain workshop tools and machinery
• Repair farm structures
• Maintain windmills and wells
• Control well and pit entry
• Install telemetry equipment
• Treat farm effluent and manage farm waste
• Decontaminate equipment and workers
• Demobilise, secure the area and sign off work

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out general farm maintenance, chemical and workshop activities.

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 manage reasonably foreseeable risks, provide safe plant, training, supervision, consultation and emergency arrangements.
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace; use current SDSs, assess incompatibilities, storage failures and foreseeable weather or flood events.
• Model Code of Practice: Labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls at workplaces.
• Model Code of Practice: Confined spaces; wells, manure pits and similar spaces can contain biological hazards, toxic gases, engulfment and mechanical hazards.
• Model Code of Practice: Welding processes; guidance includes AS 4332 for gas cylinders and AS/NZS 1869 for LP gas hose assemblies.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work; the noise exposure standard is LAeq,8h 85 dB(A) or LC,peak 140 dB(C).
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction work, where farm structural repair or maintenance meets the definition of construction work.
• AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 1337.1 eye and face protection; AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear; AS/NZS 1270 hearing protectors; AS/NZS 1891 series industrial fall-arrest systems; AS/NZS 5532 single-point anchor devices; AS 2865 confined spaces; AS/NZS 3012 electrical installations—construction and demolition sites where applicable.

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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