Plumbing Drainage and Gas Fitting SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers plumbing drainage and gas fitting work, from planning and service location through to installation, testing, reinstatement and sign-off. It supports planning excavations, pipework and testing activities while managing gas, service, trench, contamination and material-handling hazards.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan the work and establish the work area
• Locate and isolate existing services
• Excavate and support trenches
• Enter pits and chambers where required
• Unload and handle pipes and materials
• Install drainage pipework
• Cut materials and penetrate structures
• Install gas pipework
• Pressure test and purge gas pipework
• Connect and test drainage, backfill and complete sign-off

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out plumbing drainage and gas fitting work.

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.
• Applicable plumbing, drainage, gasfitting, building, electrical safety, dangerous-goods and environmental legislation, licensing rules and regulator requirements in the jurisdiction where the work is performed.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction work, as adopted or applied in the relevant jurisdiction; model codes are guidance and do not automatically have legal effect in every jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Excavation work, as adopted or applied locally; it identifies support, benching or battering and protection from unauthorised entry for trenches at least 1.5 m deep.
• Model Code of Practice: Confined spaces, as adopted or applied locally; sewer-related spaces may present biological, atmospheric, electrical and mechanical hazards.
• Model Codes of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace; Managing risks of hazardous chemicals in the workplace; Managing the risks of plant in the workplace; Hazardous manual tasks; Managing the work environment and facilities; and Managing the risk of falls at workplaces, as adopted or applied locally.
• AS/NZS 3500 series Plumbing and drainage; AS/NZS 5601 series Gas installations; AS/NZS 1596 Storage and handling of LP Gas; AS 2865 Confined spaces; AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations—Construction and demolition sites; AS/NZS 1715 Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 1337.1 Eye and face protection; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments.

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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