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CNC Machining Centre SWMS

CNC Machining Centre SWMS

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Product Overview

This SWMS covers CNC machining centre setup, machining operations, production monitoring, maintenance and shutdown. It supports planning by addressing risks associated with moving parts, rotating equipment, tooling, swarf, fluids, energy and materials.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Review the job, setup and selected program
  • Inspect machine guards and safety systems
  • Load materials and fixtures
  • Install tools and consumables
  • Prove the program before production
  • Operate milling and routing functions
  • Operate lathe and turning functions
  • Operate cutting machine functions
  • Monitor automated production
  • Clear swarf and production waste
  • Maintain plant and rectify faults
  • Close down the machine and complete handover

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out CNC machining centre work.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Review job and setup
  • Incorrect program selection
  • Uncontrolled machine start
  • Unauthorised access
  • Manual handling strain
  • Inadequate operator competence
Inspect machine safety systems
  • Guard failure
  • Unexpected movement
  • Ejected workpiece
  • Electrical damage
  • Hydraulic fluid leak
Load material and fixtures
  • Crush injury
  • Dropped load
  • Sharp edges
  • Chuck ejection
  • Manual handling strain
  • Forklift interaction
Install tools and consumables
  • Cuts from tooling
  • Tool ejection
  • Stored energy
  • Incorrect tooling
  • Bandsaw blade injury
  • Plasma consumable burns
Prove program safely
  • Collision
  • Tool breakage
  • Ejected swarf
  • Unexpected axis movement
  • Crush injury
  • Robot strike
Operate milling and routing
  • Rotating spindle entanglement
  • Flying swarf
  • Tool breakage
  • Coolant splash
  • Noise
  • Dust from composites
Operate lathe and turning
  • Rotating chuck entanglement
  • Ejected bar stock
  • Long stock whip
  • Sharp swarf
  • Hot workpiece
  • Tool collision
Operate cutting machines
  • Saw blade contact
  • Punch crush injury
  • Plasma arc exposure
  • High-pressure water injection
  • Wire EDM electrical energy
  • Flying offcuts
Monitor automated production
  • Robot collision
  • Unexpected restart
  • Ejected component
  • Noise exposure
  • Coolant mist
  • Fatigue and inattention
Clear swarf and waste
  • Sharp swarf
  • Unexpected movement
  • Coolant exposure
  • Slips and trips
  • Fire from hot metal
  • Waste contamination
Maintain and rectify plant
  • Electric shock
  • Stored energy release
  • Crush injury
  • Unexpected start
  • Hydraulic injection
  • Falls from access platforms
Close down and sign off
  • Unsecured plant
  • Residual energy
  • Waste accumulation
  • Unauthorised restart
  • Incomplete handover
  • Slip hazards

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.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of plant in the workplace — guarding, interlocks, dangerous parts, isolation and maintenance guidance.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work (November 2024) — noise elimination, engineering controls and plant information guidance.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing hazardous chemicals in the workplace.
  • Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks.
  • Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks.
  • AS 4024.1 series Safety of machinery; AS/NZS 1337.1 eye and face protection; AS/NZS 1270 hearing protectors; AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear; AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 3760 in-service electrical equipment inspection and testing.
  • Model WHS laws and model Codes are guidance only and do not automatically have legal effect in every jurisdiction.

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

Manufacturing and ProductionMetal Fabrication and WeldingShopfitting and Cabinet Making

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