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Safe Work Method Statement Template for Commercial Diving and Underwater Work
Dive into safety with our meticulously crafted Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Commercial Diving and Underwater Works. Designed by experienced professionals, this tool aims to support all your workplace safety needs without claiming to be an absolute solution. Here’s a glimpse of what it includes:
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our template comes pre-loaded with essential content, covering a wide scope of commercial diving and underwater work tasks. It provides a solid base from which you can develop tailored SWMS documents, while knowing that it’s been prepared with industry standards in mind.
- Fully Editable and Customisable in Microsoft Word Format for Easy Editing: Enjoy the flexibility to adjust every part of this SWMS to suit your unique requirements. Being in Word format, it’s a breeze to customise—just tweak it as necessary!
- Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details: Every SWMS should have a clear outline of the project at hand. This document helps set down these foundational details, ensuring everyone understands what comprises the task.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery on Site: Never overlook potential hazards with our helpful checklist of high-risk machinery. It’s a ready-made register to help you remain vigilant about safety needs.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Keep track of the qualifications and training levels of your team by using the convenient sections provided for detailing any completed or required staff training.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Measure how your interventions impact risk levels by documenting assessments both before and after implementing control measures. It’s a useful way to demonstrate active risk management.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: Stay informed and compliant with easy access to vital legislative references specific to the industry, ensuring your project adheres to Australia’s rigorous health and safety laws.
- Includes All PPE Required: Save time and always be prepared with a comprehensive list of all Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) necessary for underwater tasks, helping ensure maximum safety on site.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Methodically identify hazards and assess associated risks using our built-in matrix. It’s there to guide you through the nuts and bolts of understanding and prioritising risks.
- Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Our diligent checklist makes sure no detail slips through the cracks when putting your SWMS into action. Revisiting these items ensures thorough preparedness.
- Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Confirm acknowledgment of the SWMS with signature fields designated for every worker involved and key decision-makers, establishing accountability and approval.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: User-friendly design makes navigation and customisation straightforward, so you don’t waste valuable time figuring out the complexity.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Ideal for big projects and tender submissions. If you’re involved in extensive operations, this template is suited to tackle stringent contractual demands.
- Quick Delivery by Email: Once you’ve made the decision to proceed, you won’t be kept waiting. Expect to receive the template promptly via email to get started on implementing health and safety measures straight away.
With this SWMS template, our goal is to assist you in promoting safety and compliance in the high-risk realm of commercial diving and underwater work, allowing you to focus on what matters—delivering outstanding projects safely. Dive safe, dive well!
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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 Commercial Diving and Underwater Work 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.
