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Introducing Our Safe Work Method Statement Template for Drilling and Piling
Navigating the complexities of workplace safety can be challenging, especially when involved in high-risk activities like drilling and piling. That’s where our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template comes in handy. Designed to assist with developing robust safety procedures, this template is your comprehensive tool to help keep everyone on site as safe as possible.
Key Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Avoid the hassle of starting from scratch with our pre-filled sections. While it’s comprehensive, every project is unique, so having a layout ready helps you quickly get to what’s important—tailoring it to fit your specific job.
- Fully Editable and Customisable: Delivered in Microsoft Word format, our template is easy to edit. You can customise every section to align perfectly with your worksite conditions and organisational requirements.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and Project Details: Highlight what you’re working on clearly. The template includes areas to detail the scope and nuances of each project to ensure everyone is on the same page.
- Checklist of Any High Risk Machinery on Site: Identifying machinery that poses potential risks is crucial. This template provides a handy checklist to note all high-risk equipment, allowing proper precautions to be in place.
- Space for Recording Any Staff Training: It’s vital to document staff training efforts. Our template offers space for recording training sessions ensuring everyone has the necessary skills for the tasks they’ll be undertaking.
- Before and After Risk Ratings: See the changes implemented by assigning risk ratings both before and after controls are in place. This way, you’re able to assess how effective your safety measures are throughout the project duration.
- Resources for Use of Legislative References: Understanding and meeting legislative requirements is easier with relevant references included directly within the template. It’s a helpful guide towards compliance.
- All PPE Required: Ensure no personal protective equipment (PPE) is overlooked with a dedicated section listing what’s necessary for protection against potential hazards.
- Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: No SWMS would be complete without a solid risk assessment. Ours includes a structured matrix for systematically evaluating potential worksite risks and prioritising control measures.
- Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered: Don’t miss a beat with a thorough checklist aimed at ensuring all relevant safety measures have been considered and implemented adequately.
- Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: Accountability is crucial. This feature provides a space for signatures, ensuring everyone understands and agrees to comply with the outlined safety measures.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: We’ve made sure the template is straightforward, saving you time and effort so you can focus on executing your projects efficiently.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Well-suited for various levels of deal-making from simple contracts to tier 1 tenders, making it flexible for different types of jobs.
- Quick Delivery by Email: Once ordered, receive the template swiftly via email, so there’s no need to wait around. Start planning your project safety strategies immediately.
Whether you’re dealing with complex projects or relatively straightforward ones, our SWMS template is crafted with your needs in mind. By focusing on usability and customisation, we aim to provide you with a useful structure to promote workplace safety without overcomplicating things.
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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 Drilling and Piling 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.
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.
