Mobile Scaffold Tower Erection and Use SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers the erection, inspection, use, repositioning, maintenance and dismantling of mobile scaffold towers. It supports planning and managing risks from falls, instability, falling components, access, movement and site interactions.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan mobile scaffold tower work
• Set up and control the work area
• Unload and inspect scaffold components
• Prepare the tower foundation
• Erect the base, frames and bracing
• Install platforms and protection
• Inspect and hand over the completed tower
• Use the mobile scaffold tower
• Reposition the tower safely
• Monitor tower condition and maintenance needs
• Respond to scaffold-related emergencies
• Dismantle the tower and clear the area

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out mobile scaffold tower 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.
• Relevant model WHS Regulations provisions for high risk construction work, scaffolds, high risk work licensing, plant and falls; confirm adopted requirements with the applicable regulator.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces — guidance for scaffold design, competent erection, edge protection, safe access, load limits, inspection and mobile-scaffold operation.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction Work — guidance for SWMS preparation and high risk construction work involving a fall risk of more than 2 m.
• Scaffolding Code of Practice 2021 — guidance for scaffold planning, design registration, inspection and scaffold plans; verify whether adopted or otherwise applicable in the work jurisdiction.
• AS/NZS 1576 series, Scaffolding, including AS/NZS 1576.1 Scaffolding—General requirements and AS 1576.3 Prefabricated and tube-and-coupler scaffolding.
• AS/NZS 4576:1995, Guidelines for scaffolding.
• AS/NZS 1891.1, Industrial fall-arrest systems and devices, where a fall-arrest system is required by the documented erection method.

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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