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If you’re in the delivery and courier industry, ensuring the safety of your team is crucial. Our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Delivery Driver, Courier, and Goods Handling is a practical tool tailored to help you navigate the world of workplace safety with ease and confidence. Let’s explore what this template offers:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: This template comes pre-filled with essential information tailored to delivery drivers and couriers. It’s designed to cover the majority of scenarios you’ll encounter on the job, saving you time and effort in drafting from scratch.
- Fully Editable and Customisable in Microsoft Word Format: Need to add some details specific to your worksite or vehicles? No worries! You can easily make changes in the user-friendly format of Microsoft Word. Tweak it as much or as little as needed to suit your operations perfectly.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and Project Details: Provide your team with clear instructions by filling in sections related to the project’s scope. Define what needs to be done, how, and by whom to keep everyone on the same page.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery on Site: Whether you’re dealing with forklifts or loading devices, our template provides space to list all high-risk machinery, helping you manage potential hazards effectively.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Record and update staff training details efficiently. This section ensures that everyone involved maintains the required knowledge to handle tasks safely.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Identify risks before initiating work and reassess them post-implementation to understand safety improvements, fostering an environment where safety progresses continuously.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: Stay compliant with current laws and standards. Our template includes references and resources to assist you in aligning with legislative requirements, helping to avoid legal hiccups.
- Includes All PPE Required: Clearly outline necessary Personal Protective Equipment for each task. Ensuring everyone knows what gear they need enhances safety and compliance on site.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Assess potential workplace hazards effectively with included risk assessment tools and matrices that provide clarity on risk levels and necessary controls.
- Includes a Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Have peace of mind knowing you’ve checked all boxes. A comprehensive checklist ensures nothing is overlooked in your SWMS implementation process.
- Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Accountability is key. With a sign-off page, you ensure that everyone involved acknowledges their understanding and commitment to the SWMS.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: Designed with usability in mind, our template allows you to get straight into tailoring it to your needs without unnecessary complexities.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: If you’re bidding for larger jobs, this template helps meet those rigorous requirements, offering credibility and professionalism.
- Quick Delivery by Email: No waiting. Once ordered, receive your template swiftly via email, ready for immediate use and personalisation.
This SWMS Template offers an array of features aimed at assisting you in establishing a safe working environment for your delivery operations. It’s about being proactive, prepared, and professional—all while prioritising the welfare of your team.
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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 Delivery Driver Courier and Goods Handling 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.
