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Press Brake SWMS

Press Brake SWMS

  • -100% Compliant with Australian WHS Acts & Regulations
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Product Overview

This SWMS covers setting up, operating, maintaining and signing off press brake work. It supports planning and risk management for plant movement, tooling, material handling, machine settings, bends, jams, sharp material and hydraulic or electrical hazards.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Review job requirements
  • Set up the press brake work area
  • Complete plant pre-start checks
  • Inspect and install tooling
  • Program machine settings
  • Prepare material handling arrangements
  • Conduct a first-off bend
  • Perform production bending
  • Bend long workpieces
  • Clear jams and faults
  • Clean and maintain the plant
  • Complete clean-up and sign-off

Who is this for?

Suitable for contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out press brake activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Review job requirements
  • Incorrect bend specification
  • Unfamiliar plant operation
  • Unplanned work changes
  • Fatigue and poor concentration
Set work area
  • Unauthorised access
  • Slips and trips
  • Sharp sheet edges
  • Collision with material handling equipment
Complete plant pre-start
  • Unexpected ram movement
  • Defective safeguards
  • Hydraulic oil leak
  • Electrical fault
  • Inoperative emergency stop
Inspect and install tooling
  • Crush from ram movement
  • Tooling drop
  • Cuts from sharp tooling
  • Incorrect tooling fitment
  • Manual handling strain
Program machine settings
  • Incorrect ram travel
  • Excessive tonnage
  • Backgauge strike
  • Unexpected automatic movement
  • Entanglement at moving backgauge
Prepare material handling
  • Lacerations from sheet edges
  • Crush from falling sheet
  • Musculoskeletal strain
  • Struck by forklift
  • Material instability
Conduct first-off bend
  • Crush at point of operation
  • Ejected workpiece
  • Incorrect bend
  • Contact with moving backgauge
  • Sharp edges
Perform production bending
  • Crush or amputation
  • Unexpected material swing
  • Repeated-motion strain
  • Noise exposure
  • Cuts from finished parts
  • Distraction
Bend long workpieces
  • Strike from swinging material
  • Crush between material and plant
  • Manual handling strain
  • Loss of communication
  • Trip hazards
Clear jams and faults
  • Stored hydraulic energy
  • Unexpected restart
  • Crush at tooling
  • Electrical shock
  • Sharp material recoil
Clean and maintain plant
  • Contact with moving parts
  • Chemical exposure
  • Slips from oil
  • Cuts from swarf
  • Guard removal
Complete clean-up and sign-off
  • Cuts from scrap
  • Trips and slips
  • Unsecured plant
  • Unauthorised restart
  • Poor handover

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, including duties to manage risks, provide safe plant, maintain plant, provide information/training/supervision, and control hazardous manual tasks, noise and hazardous chemicals.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risks of Plant in the Workplace — guidance on hierarchy of controls, guarding, presence-sensing systems, worker instruction and maintaining safeguards.
  • Model Code of Practice: Hazardous Manual Tasks — guidance for assessing and controlling lifting, repetitive movement, awkward posture and forceful handling risks.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work — guidance on reducing noise at source, assessment and hearing protection.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace — guidance on current SDS, safe storage, spill response and maintaining controls.
  • AS 4024.1 Safety of machinery series, including risk assessment, guarding, safety-related control systems, isolation and emergency-stop functions; apply relevant parts to the press brake and any modifications.
  • AS/NZS 1337.1 Eye and face protection for occupational applications; AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 2210.3 Personal protective equipment—Safety footwear; AS/NZS 2161.3 Occupational protective gloves—Protection against mechanical risks.
  • Model WHS laws and model Codes of Practice are guidance documents and do not automatically have legal effect in every jurisdiction; confirm applicable local requirements before issue.
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

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