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Introducing our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template specifically crafted for Civil Drain Clearing projects. This user-friendly and comprehensive template is designed with professionals in mind, ensuring that your project meets Australian safety standards and procedures without the hassle. Here’s how it can assist you:
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our SWMS template comes pre-filled with essential content specific to civil drain clearing tasks. This provides a framework to guide you through various aspects of safety planning, reducing preparation time significantly.
- Fully editable and customisable in Microsoft Word format: Designed for easy editing, this template lets you adjust every detail to suit your project’s specific needs using Microsoft Word. Whether adding new sections or modifying existing ones, it’s all straightforward.
- Includes the scope of the project and the project details: Clearly outlines what the project involves, including objectives and expectations, so everyone is on the same page from day one.
- Includes checklist of any high risk machinery on site: Identify potential hazards by listing all high-risk equipment, ensuring you have strategies in place to manage these risks effectively.
- Includes space for recording any staff training: Document any training sessions related to safety practices which have been undertaken. This helps ensure all team members are adequately prepared for their roles.
- Includes before and after risk ratings: This feature allows you to assess the effectiveness of risk management measures by comparing risk levels at the start and conclusion of the project.
- Includes resources for use of legislative references: Stay compliant by referencing relevant laws and regulations, providing a legal backbone to your safety plans.
- Includes all PPE required: Details all necessary Personal Protective Equipment, ensuring everyone is geared up appropriately to reduce the likelihood of injury.
- Includes risk assessment and risk assessment matrix: Provides a structured approach to analysing potential risks with a matrix that helps visualise and prioritise these risks.
- Includes a checklist to ensure all requirements have been covered when implementing the SWMS: A thorough checklist that helps you keep track of all necessary steps and documentation, minimising the chance of overlooking critical precautions.
- Includes sign off page for all workers and responsible persons: Acknowledge everyone’s understanding and agreement to adhere to safety protocols by capturing signatures upfront.
- Easy to use, easy to customise: Built to save you time; customise with ease so you can focus more on the work itself rather than administrative worries.
- Suitable for large contracts and Tenders, including tier 1 contractual work: Whether you’re bidding for major contracts or working on extensive drainage projects, this SWMS supports comprehensive documentation and safety compliance.
- Quick delivery by email: Once you’ve ordered, expect fast turnaround times directly to your inbox, getting you started right away without delays.
Our template aims to assist tradespeople and site managers in tackling safety head-on. Gain peace of mind knowing you’ve got a robust safety document to support your project while focusing on quality workmanship.
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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 Civil Drain Clearing 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.
