Heavy Vehicle Truck and Prime Mover Operations SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers journey planning, truck and prime mover preparation, coupling, loading, driving, refuelling and reporting. It supports planning and managing risks from fatigue, vehicle movement, load shift, plant interaction, falls, fuel spills and road conditions.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan journeys and tasks before travel
• Enter sites and manage interactions with pedestrians and plant
• Conduct vehicle pre-start checks
• Enter and exit the cabin
• Couple trailers and connect associated lines and equipment
• Position for loading and unloading cargo
• Restrain and inspect loads
• Drive and reverse commercial vehicles
• Park, apply brakes and alight at delivery points
• Refuel, manage spills, demobilise and report defects

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out heavy vehicle truck and prime mover operations.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

The template includes references relevant to the documented work, including:

• Applicable Commonwealth, state or territory WHS/OHS legislation and regulations.
• Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace; use as guidance only and confirm its legal status in the relevant jurisdiction. The Code addresses training, instruction, supervision, mobile-plant traffic rules, exclusion zones and emergency procedures.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks in Stevedoring 2023; use as guidance only where loading, unloading or terminal activities are undertaken. It supports marked truck routes, separation of pedestrians, designated driver safe areas and minimising reversing.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work.
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace.
• National Heavy Vehicle Regulator, Load Restraint Guide, current edition.
• AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments.
• AS/NZS 2210.3 Personal protective equipment—Safety footwear.
• AS/NZS 1270 Acoustics—Hearing protectors.
• AS 1742.3 Manual of uniform traffic control devices—Traffic control for works on roads.
• AS/NZS 4380 Restraint of cargoes for transportation by road.

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Standard SWMS Features (Click to Expand)

• Task-specific job steps, hazards and control measures
• Initial and residual risk ratings
• Assigned responsible persons for each job step
• Plant, equipment and PPE requirements where applicable
• Permits, qualifications and high-risk construction work details where applicable
• Worker consultation, sign-off and review sections