Post-Tensioning (Monostrand) SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers monostrand post-tensioning activities, including planning, tendon installation, stressing, lock-off, cutting, grouting and final records. It supports planning and risk management for released strand, hydraulic equipment, structural loads, access areas and handling tasks.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Review the design, programme and planned stressing work
• Establish access, exclusion zones and safe material storage
• Deliver and unload tendons, anchorages and equipment
• Inspect stressing equipment and verify concrete readiness
• Install tendons and anchorages
• Position the jack and pump for stressing
• Stress tendons, lock off and release the jack
• Cut tendon tails and manage sharp offcuts or sparks
• Grout and seal pockets, complete inspection records and clean up

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out monostrand post-tensioning 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, including duties to manage risks, provide safe plant and systems of work, consult workers, provide information/training/supervision, and manage construction-work risks.
• Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice: Construction Work — use as guidance where adopted in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace (November 2024) — guidance for inspection, maintenance, guarding, emergency stops, safe lifting and pedestrian separation.
• Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks — guidance for eliminating or reducing forceful, repetitive and awkward handling.
• Safe Work Australia Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risk of Falls at Work — use as guidance where adopted in the relevant jurisdiction.
• AS 3600 Concrete structures; project structural drawings and engineer-approved post-tensioning design.
• AS 2550 series Cranes, hoists and winches — Safe use; AS 1418 series Cranes, hoists and winches; AS 4991 Lifting devices.
• AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations — Construction and demolition sites; AS/NZS 3760 In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment.
• AS/NZS 1891 series Industrial fall-arrest systems and devices; AS/NZS 4576 Guidelines for scaffolding.
• AS 1319 Safety signs for the occupational environment and AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments.
• Model Codes are guidance unless adopted or otherwise given legal effect in the applicable jurisdiction; equivalent or higher safety methods may be used where permitted.

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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