Safe and Vault Installation Opening and Repair SWMS

Product Overview

This SWMS covers confirming the work, moving and installing safes, opening and repairing components, and completing handover. It supports planning and managing security, lifting, movement, electrical, dust, cutting and pinch-point risks.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

• Confirm the work scope, safe identification and authority
• Establish a controlled work area
• Deliver and unload the safe
• Move the safe into position
• Assess the proposed location and substrate
• Isolate powered systems before work
• Open and service locks
• Drill or cut openings as required
• Repair vault door mechanisms
• Anchor and install the safe
• Test and recommission the installation
• Clean up and hand over the work area

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out safe and vault installation, opening or repair 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, consult workers and other duty holders, provide safe plant and systems of work, and prepare a SWMS where the work is high risk construction work.
• Model Code of Practice: How to manage work health and safety risks; use as guidance and confirm its approval or adoption in the relevant jurisdiction.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing the risks of plant in the workplace; guidance for plant inspection, guarding, maintenance, exclusion zones and lock-out/tag-out.
• Model Code of Practice: Hazardous manual tasks; guidance for assessing and reducing lifting, pushing, pulling, sustained-force and awkward-posture risks.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing electrical risks in the workplace; guidance for electrical isolation, testing and use of electrical equipment.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing noise and preventing hearing loss at work; guidance for noise assessment and hearing-protector programmes.
• Model Code of Practice: Managing risks of respirable crystalline silica in the workplace; applicable where drilling, cutting or grinding concrete, masonry, grout, stone or similar material may generate respirable crystalline silica.
• Model Code of Practice: Construction work; use as guidance where the task is construction work and high-risk construction work provisions apply.
• Working safely when cutting, drilling and grinding concrete and masonry products Code of Practice; guidance for dust extraction, wet methods, service location, structural review, electrical safety, noise and clean-up.
• AS/NZS 3012 Electrical installations—Construction and demolition sites; AS/NZS 3760 In-service safety inspection and testing of electrical equipment; AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 respiratory protection; AS/NZS 1337.1 eye and face protection; AS/NZS 1270 hearing protectors; AS/NZS 2210.3 safety footwear; AS/NZS 1801 occupational protective helmets; AS/NZS 4602.1 high-visibility garments; AS/NZS 2161 occupational protective gloves; AS 2359 powered industrial trucks; AS 2550 series cranes; and AS 1418 series cranes, hoists and winches, as applicable.

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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