Facilities Maintenance SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning, setting up, repairing, maintaining, cleaning and reinstating facilities work areas. It supports management of work zones, services, plant, hazardous materials, access equipment, chemicals, spills and interaction with occupants and vehicles.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan and review the work scope
• Establish work zones and manage access
• Set up car park controls
• Inspect plant and tools
• Isolate services and plant
• Control hazardous materials
• Maintain laundry chutes
• Refurbish locker rooms
• Carry out club repairs
• Use access equipment
• Complete repairs and maintenance
• Manage chemicals and spills, then clean and reinstate areas

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out facilities maintenance activities.

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, including duties to manage reasonably foreseeable risks, consult workers, provide safe plant and systems of work, and ensure appropriate information, training, instruction and supervision.
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks — guidance on applying the hierarchy of controls.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction work — use where maintenance activities meet the definition of construction work; prepare and implement a SWMS for applicable high risk construction work.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace — isolate, lock, tag, test and prevent inadvertent re-energisation before electrical work.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risk of falls at workplaces — prioritise solid construction and fall-prevention devices before work-positioning or fall-arrest systems.
• Model Code of Practice: Confined spaces — assess laundry chutes before entry and manage atmospheric, biological, mechanical, electrical and access hazards.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of plant in the workplace — eliminate or isolate plant hazards before relying on administrative controls or PPE.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace — maintain chemical controls, consult current SDS and manage spills and incompatible substances.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of respirable crystalline silica in the workplace — provide fit-tested RPE, training and maintenance where silica dust cannot otherwise be eliminated.
• Guidance standards as applicable: AS/NZS 1891 fall-arrest systems; AS/NZS 4576 scaffolding guidelines; AS 2550.10 safe use of mobile elevating work platforms; AS/NZS 3012 electrical installations—construction and demolition sites; AS/NZS 3760 in-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment; AS/NZS 1715 respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 5532 manufactured anchor devices; AS 1319 safety signs; AS 1742.3 traffic control devices; AS/NZS 2865 confined spaces; AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear; AS/NZS 4602.1 high-visibility garments.

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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