Pedestrian Safety Around Mobile Plant SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers pedestrian safety around mobile plant, including site planning, access controls, plant movement and shutdown. It supports planning for separation, visibility, communication, vehicle interactions and residual site hazards.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan work, consult on activities and identify plant-pedestrian interaction risks
• Establish site access controls and pedestrian routes
• Inspect plant, warning devices and controls before use
• Verify operator and spotter arrangements and communication methods
• Position plant and barriers to manage rollover, crush and strike hazards
• Control pedestrian movements near operating and reversing plant
• Move plant through the site while managing collisions and blind spots
• Manage loading, unloading and work near cranes or rotating equipment
• Adjust controls for poor visibility conditions
• Park, isolate and demobilise plant, then review remaining hazards

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses working around mobile plant or managing pedestrian movements near it.

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, including duties to manage plant, workplace-traffic and construction-work risks so far as is reasonably practicable.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace—use as guidance for hazard identification, hierarchy of control, operator competency, plant guarding, safe operating procedures, maintenance and review.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction Work—use as guidance where this work is construction work and a SWMS is required for high risk construction work.
• Code of Practice: Moving Plant on Construction Sites—use as guidance for segregated plant zones, traffic management plans, competency-verified spotters, speed controls, communication systems, proximity technology and minimum PPE.
• Safe Work Australia workplace traffic management guidance—use as guidance for separating pedestrians and vehicles, designated routes, loading zones, exclusion zones and traffic-plan review.
• AS 4024.1 series Safety of machinery—use as guidance for guarding, interlocks and access to hazardous moving parts.
• AS 2550 series Cranes—Safe use—use as guidance where cranes are used.
• AS 2359 series Powered industrial trucks—use as guidance where forklifts are used.
• AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments, AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear, AS/NZS 1801 occupational protective helmets, AS/NZS 1337.1 eye protection and AS/NZS 1270 hearing protectors—use as guidance for PPE selection.
• Model WHS laws and model Codes of Practice are guidance only and do not automatically have legal effect in every jurisdiction. Confirm applicable local requirements before work starts.

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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