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Lime Spreader Truck SWMS

Lime Spreader Truck SWMS

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Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning, plant operation and surface-treatment activities using a lime spreader truck. It supports work planning and risk management for traffic, mobile plant, dust, material handling and clean-up hazards.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Complete pre-start planning and manage changes to the work
  • Establish traffic controls and restrict unauthorised access
  • Mobilise plant and attachments and carry out pre-start checks
  • Load the lime spreader truck
  • Position the truck for spreading activities
  • Spread slag lime
  • Mix lime with gravel
  • Water mixed material
  • Trim material with a grader
  • Roll and compact the surface
  • Sweep using a broom attachment
  • Clean up and demobilise plant and the work area

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out lime spreading and associated surface work.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Pre-start planning
  • Unplanned work changes
  • Dust exposure
  • Plant interaction
  • Heat stress
  • Unauthorised workers
Establish traffic controls
  • Public vehicle collision
  • Pedestrian strike
  • Plant collision
  • Unauthorised entry
  • Poor visibility
Mobilise plant and attachments
  • Plant roll-over
  • Crush during loading
  • Falling attachment
  • Ramp failure
  • Reversing collision
  • Load shift
Conduct plant pre-starts
  • Mechanical failure
  • Hydraulic injection
  • Brake failure
  • Plant roll-over
  • Reversing strike
  • Dust leakage
Load lime spreader truck
  • Airborne lime dust
  • Respiratory irritation
  • Eye injury
  • Truck overload
  • Loader collision
  • Hopper entanglement
  • Spillage
Position for spreading
  • Vehicle collision
  • Plant roll-over
  • Overhead strike
  • Reversing strike
  • Unstable ground
  • Lime discharge to drains
Spread slag lime
  • Airborne alkaline dust
  • Respiratory exposure
  • Eye and skin contact
  • Spreader entanglement
  • Plant collision
  • Uneven material coverage
Mix lime with gravel
  • Plant collision
  • Dust generation
  • Flying material
  • Attachment detachment
  • Uneven surface
  • Worker strike
Water mixed material
  • Water cart collision
  • Wet slippery surface
  • Dust exposure
  • Hose whip
  • Waterway contamination
  • Reduced visibility
Trim with grader
  • Articulated plant crush
  • Reversing collision
  • Plant roll-over
  • Flying debris
  • Dust exposure
  • Overhead contact
Roll and compact surface
  • Roller collision
  • Plant roll-over
  • Noise exposure
  • Vibration exposure
  • Worker strike
  • Surface failure
Sweep with broom attachment
  • Dust cloud
  • Thrown debris
  • Attachment failure
  • Plant collision
  • Pedestrian strike
  • Reduced visibility
Clean up and demobilise
  • Residual lime exposure
  • Plant loading crush
  • Traffic interaction
  • Slips and trips
  • Environmental contamination
  • Unsecured load

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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 risks, provide safe plant, consult workers, provide information, training, instruction and supervision, and control hazardous chemical exposure.
  • Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks (November 2024), used as guidance for consultation, risk assessment, control implementation and review.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace, used as guidance for plant inspection, maintenance, guarding, operator competency and pedestrian separation.
  • Model Code of Practice: Construction work, used as guidance for SWMS preparation, traffic management, plant-pedestrian segregation and review of controls.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace, used as guidance for SDS access, exposure controls, spill response and emergency equipment.
  • Managing respirable crystalline silica dust exposure in construction and manufacturing of construction elements Code of Practice 2022, used as guidance where gravel, fines or other materials may generate respirable crystalline silica; assess dust and maintain exposure below the applicable workplace exposure standard.
  • Traffic management for construction or maintenance work Code of Practice 2008, used as guidance where work occurs on or adjacent to a traffic corridor; follow the approved TCMP and relevant road authority requirements.
  • AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 Respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments; AS 1742.3 Traffic control devices for works on roads; AS 2550 series Cranes, hoists and winches—Safe use where lifting equipment is used.

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

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