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Introducing our Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template for Electrical New Installation. This tool is designed to make your workplace safer and your documentation easier while helping you stay compliant with Australian Work Health and Safety regulations. Here’s a closer look at what you’ll find within this valuable resource:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our SWMS template comes pre-filled with detailed information relevant to electrical installations, saving you time by providing a solid starting point. Simply review the content and adjust it to fit the unique aspects of your project.
- Fully Editable and Customisable in Microsoft Word Format: Built in an easy-to-edit Microsoft Word format, our template allows you to customise the document effortlessly, ensuring you can modify any section to better suit your project’s needs and specifics.
- Includes the Scope of the Project and the Project Details: Clearly outline and define the boundaries and specifics of your project from the get-go. Having these details clearly articulated helps streamline coordination and maintain focus on safety during execution.
- Includes Checklist of Any High-Risk Machinery On-Site: A thorough checklist is included for you to detail any high-risk machinery present. This ensures that potential hazards are identified early, allowing for preventive measures to be taken.
- Includes Space for Recording Any Staff Training: Document and track employee training directly within the template to ensure all staff on-site are adequately prepared and informed, fostering a more competent workforce for handling electrical installations safely.
- Includes Before and After Risk Ratings: Assess risks accurately by recording initial and post-mitigation risk levels, facilitating better understanding and management of potential hazards associated with the tasks.
- Includes Resources for Use of Legislative References: Stay compliant by accessing referenced legislative resources, which help ensure your activities align with Australian statutory requirements and standards.
- Includes All PPE Required: An outlined list of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) needed for various tasks is incorporated, ensuring that every worker is equipped with the necessary gear for their safety.
- Includes Risk Assessment and Risk Assessment Matrix: Evaluate each task’s inherent risks and determine appropriate control measures using the provided risk assessment matrix, promoting a proactive approach to safety management.
- Includes Checklist to Ensure All Requirements Have Been Covered When Implementing the SWMS: Don’t miss a step! Our comprehensive checklist ensures that all critical elements are reviewed and addressed before implementing the SWMS, enhancing safety and compliance.
- Includes Sign Off Page for All Workers and Responsible Persons: It’s vital everyone involved acknowledges and agrees to abide by the SWMS. The sign-off page facilitates accountability and mutual understanding between workers and management.
- Easy to Use, Easy to Customise: Our intuitive design makes using and adjusting the template a breeze, enabling quick adaptation to project-specific requirements without hassle.
- Suitable for Large Contracts and Tenders, Including Tier 1 Contractual Work: Whether you’re dealing with extensive projects or high-tier contracts, this template scales to meet the precision and rigour such jobs demand.
- Quick Delivery by Email: Once you’ve made your purchase, we’ll deliver your SWMS template straight to your inbox, ready for immediate use. It’s about getting you what you need, right when you need it.
Our aim is to offer a product that genuinely assists in enhancing the safety standards at your work site while simplifying the administrative burden of maintaining compliance. With this SWMS template, balancing safety with smooth operations becomes more manageable and effective.
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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 Electrical New Installation 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.
