Refrigeration Installation SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers refrigeration installation from site planning and equipment delivery through to pipework, electrical connections, commissioning and handover. It supports managing lifting, elevated access, hot work, pressure, refrigerant and plant start-up risks.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Plan the work and establish the site
• Deliver, position and lift refrigeration components
• Set plant and assemble modules
• Access elevated work areas
• Install pipework and supports
• Braze and join pipework
• Pressure test and evacuate the system
• Charge refrigerant and leak test
• Install electrical connections
• Commission the refrigeration system
• Insulate, label and finish the installation
• Clean up and hand over the work area

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out refrigeration installation.

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 identify hazards, manage risks, provide information, training, supervision, safe plant and safe systems of work.
• Applicable electrical safety legislation and licensing requirements in the jurisdiction where the work is performed.
• Applicable refrigerant management and environmental protection legislation, including refrigerant handling licence and refrigerant recovery requirements.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction Work — use as guidance for construction work, SWMS and high risk construction work; model codes require adoption or recognition in the relevant jurisdiction before they have legal effect.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Plant in the Workplace — use as guidance for plant installation, commissioning, isolation, inspection and maintenance.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Electrical Risks in the Workplace — use as guidance for de-energisation, competent electrical work and electrical risk controls.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing Risks of Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace — use as guidance for SDSs, ventilation, gas-leak checks, atmospheric monitoring and maintaining controls.
• Model Codes of Practice: Managing the Risk of Falls at Workplaces, Confined Spaces, Hazardous Manual Tasks, Managing Noise and Preventing Hearing Loss at Work, and Work Near Overhead and Underground Electric Lines, as applicable.
• Technical guidance: current editions of AS/NZS 5149 Refrigerating systems and heat pumps; AS/NZS 1677 Refrigerating systems; AS/NZS 3000 Wiring Rules; AS 4836 Safe working on or near low-voltage electrical installations and equipment; AS/NZS 3788 Pressure equipment—In-service inspection; AS 4041 Pressure piping; AS 2550 Cranes—Safe use; AS/NZS 1891 Industrial fall-arrest systems; AS/NZS 5532 Manufacturing requirements for single-point anchor device; AS 2865 Confined spaces; AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 Respiratory protective equipment; AS/NZS 1337.1 Eye and face protection; AS/NZS 2210.3 Safety footwear; AS/NZS 4602.1 High-visibility garments; and AS/NZS 1270 Hearing protectors.

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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