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Sales Rep Safety SWMS

This SWMS covers planning, travel, meetings, product demonstrations and follow-up safety activities for sales representatives.

Activities covered include

  • Plan daily travel and meeting schedules
  • Conduct sales meetings
  • Leave venues, secure equipment and travel home

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Sales Rep Safety SWMS
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Product Overview

This SWMS covers planning, travel, meetings, product demonstrations and follow-up safety activities for sales representatives. It supports identifying and managing travel, venue, equipment, weather, security and wellbeing risks before and during work.

Activities & Specific Tasks Covered

This document includes task-specific risk controls for:

  • Plan daily travel and meeting schedules
  • Inspect vehicles, carried equipment and chargers
  • Drive to meeting locations
  • Park safely and approach venues
  • Assess unfamiliar venues on arrival
  • Complete site access and induction requirements
  • Conduct sales meetings
  • Demonstrate products and manage leads
  • Handle samples and display materials
  • Manage outdoor and changing weather conditions
  • Respond to incidents or emergencies
  • Leave venues, secure equipment and travel home

Who is this for?

For contractors, workers, supervisors and businesses carrying out sales representative activities.

Specific Job Steps & Hazards Covered

Job Step / Activity Potential Hazards
Plan daily travel and meetings
  • Fatigue from excessive travel
  • Remote or isolated work
  • Unfamiliar locations
  • Work-related stress
Inspect vehicle and equipment
  • Vehicle breakdown
  • Defective safety equipment
  • Loose loads in vehicle
  • Electrical fault from chargers
Drive to meeting location
  • Vehicle collision
  • Driver fatigue
  • Distracted driving
  • Adverse weather
Park and approach venue
  • Vehicle strike
  • Poor lighting
  • Theft or assault
  • Slips on uneven surfaces
Assess unknown venue on arrival
  • Unsafe access or egress
  • Unauthorised persons
  • Violence or aggression
  • Poor emergency arrangements
Complete site induction and access
  • Unfamiliar site hazards
  • Moving plant
  • Restricted areas
  • Inadequate PPE
Conduct sales meeting
  • Workplace violence
  • Harassment or intimidation
  • Lone-worker emergency
  • Psychological distress
Demonstrate products safely
  • Electrical shock
  • Trip hazards from leads
  • Burns from equipment
  • Customer contact with equipment
Handle samples and displays
  • Musculoskeletal strain
  • Dropped objects
  • Cuts from packaging
  • Vehicle load shift
Manage outdoor and weather exposure
  • Heat stress
  • Sun exposure
  • Dehydration
  • Lightning or severe weather
Respond to incident or emergency
  • Delayed emergency response
  • Injury or illness
  • Fire or evacuation
  • Loss of communication
Leave venue and travel home
  • Assault in car park
  • Fatigue after meeting
  • Vehicle collision
  • Unsecured equipment
Report and review safety issues
  • Repeat exposure to hazards
  • Unreported violence
  • Ineffective controls
  • Psychological harm

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.
  • Model Code of Practice: How to Manage Work Health and Safety Risks.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the Work Environment and Facilities, including guidance for remote or isolated work and effective communication.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Psychosocial Hazards at Work, including violence, aggression, high job demands and remote or isolated work.
  • Model Code of Practice: First Aid in the Workplace.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing the Risk of Fatigue at Work.
  • Model Code of Practice: Managing Electrical Risks in the Workplace.
  • Applicable road traffic laws, road rules and vehicle registration requirements in the state or territory of travel.
  • AS/NZS 4602.1 High visibility safety garments.
  • AS/NZS 2210.3 Personal protective equipment—Safety footwear.
  • AS/NZS 1337.1 Personal eye-protection.
  • AS/NZS 1801 Occupational protective helmets.
  • AS/NZS 1715 and AS/NZS 1716 Selection, use and maintenance of respiratory protective equipment and respiratory protective devices, where respiratory PPE is required.

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

Transport and LogisticsRetail and WholesaleOffice and Corporate

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