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Masonry Saw Cutting SWMS

Masonry Saw Cutting SWMS

  • -100% Compliant with Australian WHS Acts & Regulations
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Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning and carrying out masonry saw cutting, from work-zone setup through to clean-up. It supports planning and management of dust, saw, electrical, fuel, material and elevated-work risks.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Plan the cutting work and consult with workers
  • Establish and control the cutting work zone
  • Check services and the structure before cutting
  • Move and position cutting equipment
  • Inspect the saw and blade before use
  • Control silica dust and slurry
  • Manage electrical and fuel-related risks
  • Secure the material and set the cut line
  • Operate hand-held saws
  • Operate floor or rock saws
  • Carry out wall and elevated cutting work
  • Clean up cutting waste and demobilise

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out masonry saw cutting activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Plan work and consult
  • Unplanned silica exposure
  • Incorrect saw selection
  • Uncoordinated trades
  • Unauthorised work changes
Establish cutting work zone
  • Flying fragments
  • Silica dust exposure
  • Noise exposure
  • Unauthorised entry
  • Slip hazards
Check services and structure
  • Electric shock
  • Gas release
  • Water release
  • Structural collapse
  • Falling masonry
Move and position equipment
  • Manual handling strain
  • Crush injury
  • Plant instability
  • Trips from hoses
  • Fuel spill
Inspect saw and blade
  • Blade shatter
  • Guard failure
  • Unexpected start-up
  • Kick-back
  • Entanglement
Control silica dust and slurry
  • Respirable crystalline silica
  • Airborne dust migration
  • Contaminated slurry
  • Respiratory disease
  • Reduced visibility
Manage electrical and fuel safety
  • Electric shock
  • Electrical fire
  • Fuel ignition
  • Carbon monoxide exposure
  • Water contact with electricity
Secure material and set cut
  • Material movement
  • Blade pinch
  • Kick-back
  • Crush injury
  • Incorrect cut line
Operate hand-held saw
  • Kick-back
  • Blade contact
  • Blade fracture
  • Flying debris
  • Noise exposure
  • Hand-arm vibration
Operate floor or rock saw
  • Runaway saw
  • Blade contact
  • Plant strike
  • Slurry slips
  • Noise exposure
  • Exhaust fumes
Cut walls and elevated work
  • Falls from height
  • Falling cut-out
  • Overhead cutting
  • Structural instability
  • Falling objects
Clean up and manage waste
  • Silica dust disturbance
  • Slurry slips
  • Sharp offcuts
  • Manual handling strain
  • Environmental contamination
Demobilise and sign off
  • Unauthorised restart
  • Residual services hazard
  • Defective equipment reuse
  • Incomplete handover

Need to add specific site requirements?

Use the BlueSafe Portal to tailor this SWMS with site-specific details, job steps, hazards, controls and responsibilities before work starts.

Acceptance Guaranteed: If your client or principal requests changes during document review, BlueSafe will help revise the document at no extra cost and support resubmission until it is accepted.

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, consult workers, provide safe plant, control hazardous atmospheres and silica exposure, manage noise, electrical risks and construction work. Confirm the legislation adopted in the jurisdiction and the principal contractor's site requirements before use.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of respirable crystalline silica in the workplace — guidance for controlled processing, wet suppression, on-tool extraction, RPE and silica risk control planning.
  • Model Code of Practice: Working safely when cutting, drilling and grinding concrete and masonry products — guidance for saw selection, blade safety, services, wet cutting, ventilation and clean-up.
  • Model Code of Practice: Construction work — guidance for identifying high risk construction work and preparing, implementing and reviewing SWMS.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of plant in the workplace; Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace; Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work; and Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks.
  • AS/NZS 1715 Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 1716 Respiratory protective devices; AS/NZS 1337.1 Personal eye protection; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 1801 Occupational protective helmets; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations—construction and demolition sites; and AS/NZS 3760 In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment.
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

Suitable for Industries

Building and Construction

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