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Safe Work Method Statement Template for Decking, Pergolas, and Outdoor Timber
If you’re starting a new project involving decking, pergolas, or outdoor timber in Australia, our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template is designed to support your site management with a touch of meticulous care.
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Pre-filled and Comprehensive:
This template offers a well-rounded base with pre-filled content that covers essential safety standards and practices, reducing the time required for planning.
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Fully Editable and Customisable:
Available in Microsoft Word format, it allows you to easily modify text to suit your specific project needs, ensuring relevance and compliance.
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Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details:
Clearly outlines what is included under the SWMS, making sure everyone is on the same page from day one. Your project’s nuances are highlighted within context to align all stakeholders.
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Includes Checklist of Any High Risk Machinery on Site:
Risk management is crucial, and our checklist identifies machinery that may pose significant risk, helping you implement necessary precautionary measures.
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Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training:
Dedicated sections for tracking staff training ensures team members are properly equipped and up-to-date with the latest safety training protocols.
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Includes Before and After Risk Ratings:
Documents risks with clarity by showing ratings before and after implementing safety controls, which helps in evaluating safety effectiveness.
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Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References:
A handy reference guide to relevant legislation aids in keeping your project aligned with legal obligations across states and territories.
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Includes All PPE Required:
Specifies Personal Protective Equipment necessary for each task, ensuring that workers have everything they need to stay safe on site.
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Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix:
Comprehensive evaluation tools to systematically assess potential hazards and prioritise the implementation of control measures.
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Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS:
A thorough checklist keeps the process streamlined and ensures nothing important slips through the cracks during execution.
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Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons:
Encourages accountability with a sign-off sheet ensuring each involved party understands and agrees to the work method statement.
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Easy to use, Easy to customise:
The user-friendly design is paired with straightforward instructions, allowing anyone to quickly adapt the document to their project needs.
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Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work:
This template is robust enough for high-stakes environments, including complex tender requirements, while remaining adaptable to smaller projects.
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Quick delivery by email:
No waiting around. The template is digital and ready to be emailed directly to your inbox, so you can start working on it immediately.
Our SWMS template is crafted with Australian workplace standards in mind, supporting both safety and efficiency on-site without the fluff.
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This code snippet provides an overview of the SWMS Template designed specifically for decking, pergolas, and outdoor timber work, presenting its key features in an accessible manner. This makes it easier for tradespeople to comprehend how this template might fit into their daily operations and compliance efforts.
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 Decking Pergolas and Outdoor Timber 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.
