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Roll Bender SWMS

Roll Bender SWMS

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Product Overview

This SWMS covers roll bending work from job review and material staging through machine setup, bending, finishing, shutdown and maintenance. It supports planning and risk management for nip points, moving material, sharp edges, stored energy, noise and manual handling.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Review the job, material and work area
  • Position the machine and establish an exclusion zone
  • Receive and stage material
  • Complete pre-start machine inspections
  • Set the rolls and support equipment
  • Load material into the rolls
  • Perform progressive bending
  • Inspect and remove formed material
  • Clear jams and abnormal conditions
  • Undertake secondary finishing
  • Clean, shut down, maintain and sign off the work area

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out roll bender work.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Review job and work area
  • Incorrect material selection
  • Unauthorised operation
  • Slip and trip hazards
  • Poor communication
  • Manual handling strain
Position machine and establish exclusion zone
  • Machine movement
  • Crush against fixed objects
  • Contact with moving plant
  • Unstable plant
  • Unauthorised entry
Receive and stage material
  • Crush from suspended load
  • Sharp metal edges
  • Forklift collision
  • Load instability
  • Musculoskeletal injury
Complete pre-start inspection
  • Unexpected start-up
  • Entanglement in rotating rolls
  • Electrical shock
  • Guard failure
  • Hydraulic fluid release
  • Ejected workpiece
Set rolls and support equipment
  • Nip-point crush injury
  • Unexpected roll movement
  • Falling tooling
  • Awkward posture
  • Incorrect machine setting
Load material into rolls
  • Draw-in at rolls
  • Crush from material movement
  • Sharp edges
  • Material whip
  • Manual handling strain
  • Struck-by long stock
Perform progressive bending
  • Entanglement at nip points
  • Material whip
  • Ejected workpiece
  • Crush injury
  • Excessive noise
  • Fatigue and loss of concentration
Inspect and remove formed material
  • Stored energy spring-back
  • Sharp edges
  • Crush injury
  • Manual handling strain
  • Struck-by moving material
Clear jams and abnormal conditions
  • Unexpected start-up
  • Stored hydraulic energy
  • Crush at rolls
  • Sharp fractured material
  • Electrical exposure
  • Unauthorised restart
Undertake secondary finishing
  • Flying metal particles
  • Cuts and abrasions
  • Noise exposure
  • Fire from sparks
  • Dust and fumes
  • Electric shock
Clean work area and shutdown
  • Unexpected start-up
  • Cuts from swarf
  • Slips from oil
  • Manual handling strain
  • Unauthorised use
Perform maintenance and sign-off
  • Electrical shock
  • Stored energy release
  • Crush from rolls
  • Hydraulic injection injury
  • Guarding not reinstated
  • Unexpected recommissioning

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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: apply the relevant primary duty of care, consultation, risk-management, plant, hazardous manual task, noise, electrical safety and PPE requirements in the jurisdiction where work is performed.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace (November 2024) — guidance for applying the hierarchy of controls, interlocked guards, training, inspection and safe plant operation.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work (November 2024) — guidance for noise assessment and engineering noise controls.
  • Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks — guidance for controlling force, awkward posture, repetitive work and vibration risks.
  • AS/NZS 4024 series, Safety of machinery — guidance for machinery risk assessment, guards, interlocks and safeguarding systems.
  • AS/NZS 1337.1, Personal eye-protection for occupational applications; AS/NZS 1270, Hearing protectors; AS/NZS 2210.3, Safety, protective and occupational footwear; AS/NZS 2161.1, Occupational protective gloves; AS/NZS 3760, In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment.

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

Suitable for Industries

Metal Fabrication and Welding

$96.80

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