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Introducing our comprehensive Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS) Template designed specifically for the energisation and commissioning of electrical installations. This user-friendly template ensures safety processes are clearly articulated and straightforward, helping you manage your projects effectively and safely.
Features:
- Pre-filled and Comprehensive: Our SWMS template comes pre-filled with common tasks, risks, and controls specific to electrical work. This gives you a solid starting point, saving time and reducing guesswork in developing your safety documentation.
- Fully editable and customisable in Microsoft Word format for easy editing: Flexibility is key. The template is provided in Microsoft Word format, allowing you to easily edit and customise it to suit the unique requirements of your project.
- Includes the scope of the project and the project details: Clearly defined sections to input your project’s scope and details ensure that every aspect is covered, aiding in clarity and alignment among your team and stakeholders.
- Includes checklist of any high risk machinery on site: Identifying and mitigating risks associated with machinery is paramount. This checklist helps ensure all necessary precautions are taken for high-risk equipment on site.
- Includes space for recording any staff training: There is dedicated space to record who has been trained on what aspects, ensuring everyone is adequately prepared to tackle their roles safely.
- Includes before and after risk ratings: Track the effectiveness of your risk management by documenting risk levels before and after control measures are implemented.
- Includes resources for use of legislative references: Access essential legislative references to support compliance and further guide your safety practices, ensuring all standards are met.
- Includes all PPE required: A detailed list of Personal Protective Equipment applicable to the task at hand ensures everyone knows what protective wear is necessary, promoting safety at all times.
- Includes risk assessment and risk assessment matrix: An added layer of safety management with a built-in risk assessment section helps evaluate and tackle potential hazards systematically.
- Includes a checklist to ensure all requirements have been covered when implementing the SWMS: Double-check everything with a thorough checklist to ensure no step has been missed during implementation, giving your team peace of mind.
- Includes sign off page for all workers and responsible persons: Accountability is vital. With a designated sign-off sheet, you can ensure all involved parties acknowledge their understanding and commitment to the SWMS.
- Easy to use, easy to customise: Designed with usability in mind, this template is perfect for tradespeople who need a practical, no-fuss document they can tailor to each job’s specific needs.
- Suitable for large contracts and Tenders, including tier 1 contractual work: Whether it’s a small project or a major tender, our template is robust enough to cater to higher-tier requirements while maintaining clarity and simplicity.
- Quick delivery by email: Time is money. That’s why we offer prompt delivery directly to your inbox, enabling you to get started swiftly and maintain project momentum.
This SWMS template offers a structured yet flexible approach to managing workplace safety around electrical installations. It seeks to assist in keeping safety front and centre without overwhelming you or your team. If you’re looking to enhance your workplace safety practices with a tool that’s as practical as it is professional, this might just be what you need.
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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 Energise and Commission Electrical 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.
