Product Overview

This Construction Site Traffic and Mobile Plant Management SWMS is a fully editable Safe Work Method Statement designed to help you plan, document and control traffic and mobile plant risks on construction and related worksites, supporting strong WHS compliance. It provides comprehensive coverage of vehicle, plant and pedestrian interactions, exclusion zones, reversing operations and site traffic flow to effectively manage High Risk Construction Work involving mobile plant.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes specific risk controls for:

• Managing the risk of workers being caught between reversing vehicles and fixed structures or objects
• Systematic collision risk management for all mobile plant and vehicles operating on and around the worksite
• Preventing collisions between principal contractor’s plant and other contractors’ vehicles, plant and personnel on site
• Planning and controlling traffic movement around the work site, including entry, exit and internal routes
• Implementing traffic control measures during construction activities, including temporary traffic arrangements
• Establishing, marking and enforcing exclusion zones around operational work sites and high-risk plant
• Establishing exclusion zones around specific work areas such as loading zones, laydown areas and cranage zones
• Excavation site traffic control, including plant access, spoil removal routes and segregation from open excavations
• Managing interaction between mobile plant and pedestrians, including spotters, barriers and designated walkways
• Managing traffic flow onsite to minimise congestion, blind spots and conflicting vehicle movements
• Managing traffic in timber yards and material storage areas, including loading, unloading and stacking zones
• Controlling plant and machinery movement, including start-up, shut-down, parking and securing procedures
• Safe reversing of heavy vehicles, including use of spotters, reversing alarms and visibility aids
• Managing the risk of collision with other vehicles, structures or stationary objects through planning and controls
• Preventing workers and visitors being struck by moving vehicles through signage, training and physical separation

Who is this for?

This SWMS is designed for builders, civil contractors, transport and logistics operators on construction sites, traffic controllers, plant hire companies, timber yards, and site supervisors managing vehicle and mobile plant movements.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Legislation & References

This document was researched and developed to align with:

• Work Health and Safety Act 2011
• Work Health and Safety Regulations 2017
• Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace Code of Practice: Guidance on controlling risks associated with the use of plant and mobile equipment
• Managing Risks of Construction Work Code of Practice: Requirements and controls for high risk construction activities, including mobile plant and traffic interfaces
• Traffic Management for Construction or Maintenance Work Code of Practice (where adopted by the relevant jurisdiction): Guidance on planning and implementing safe traffic management at and around construction sites
• Safe Work Australia – General Guide for Workplace Traffic Management: Principles for separating pedestrians and vehicles and designing safe traffic flow
• AS 1742 Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices: Standards for temporary traffic control signs and devices used around construction work